RAM analysis software

Extend the life of ageing assets with RAM analysis software

Use Maros and Taro to compare maintenance, replacement and upgrade options, and assess their impact on production and costs as assets age

Make better maintenance and investment decisions for ageing assets

As equipment ages, failures may become more frequent, maintenance needs may increase and operating priorities may change. RAM (Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability) analysis with Maros and Taro helps you compare whether to maintain, replace, upgrade or continue operating equipment, and understand the likely effect on availability, production and cost.

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Evaluate and test your options before making investments

Ageing equipment, changing operating conditions and limited maintenance resources make it harder to decide what needs attention first. Operators need to protect production and manage cost and risk, while also deciding how long continued operation still makes sense.

RAM analysis lets you test different options before committing time and money. The model can include equipment reliability, maintenance, repair times, spares and other constraints that affect production.

Questions RAM analysis can help you answer

Which equipment and failure modes present the greatest threat to future production?
Which maintenance, replacement or upgrade initiatives should we prioritize?
What could be the production and financial impact of deferring an intervention?
How could constraints in personnel, spares or repair capacity affect availability?
Which investment scenarios offer the strongest potential return?
When is continued operation, modification, repurposing or retirement the better option?

Prioritize maintenance, upgrades and replacement

Understand future performance

Forecast availability and production losses over the asset’s remaining life. See how equipment condition, failures and changing operating conditions could affect future output.

Prioritize interventions and investment

Compare maintenance, replacement, upgrade and operating options using the same model. See how each option could affect availability, production and cost, and make the reasons for each priority clear.

Decide whether to maintain, modify or retire the asset

Compare continued operation, life extension, modification, repurposing and retirement. Test the main assumptions and see the trade-offs before making a decision.

Plan for the asset’s remaining life

Run a study to evaluate how different maintenance, replacement and investment strategies could affect future production, reliability and lifecycle costs. Maros and Taro can model the equipment, systems, operating rules and support resources that affect production. The level of detail depends on the question you need to answer and the data available. A study may include:

equipment reliability, maintainability and degradation assumptions
planned and unplanned maintenance
production dependencies, redundancy and operating profiles
inspection, repair and replacement strategies
spares, personnel, logistics and other resource constraints
shutdowns, turnaround plans and alternative investment scenarios

Choose the right RAM software for your asset

Maros

Maros is used to model production performance in upstream, midstream and other complex energy systems. It helps teams investigate production losses, assess facility changes and test ways to maintain or improve availability.

Taro

Taro is used to assess reliability, availability and production in downstream facilities, including refineries, petrochemical facilities and other process plants. It helps teams compare maintenance and operating options across the plant.