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Energy & Resources
Availability is engineered, not promised.
In process plants, power generation and offshore production, the RAMS case has two currencies: safety integrity you can verify and uptime you can bank. RAMSynapse connects both on one system model — SIL targets, availability models, FMECAs and field data feeding each other instead of ageing in separate files.
SIL verification lives in spreadsheets
PFD calculations sit in workbooks with hand-typed failure rates — when the SIS design changes, nobody is sure the IEC 61511 verification still holds.
Downtime is the real currency
An availability target is a production commitment, but the RBDs that justify it are rebuilt from scratch for every study instead of living with the design.
Field data never reaches the analysts
Years of CMMS work orders exist, but without ISO 14224 discipline they never become failure rates — so predictions stay generic and Weibull stays theoretical.
The regulatory landscape
The standards, and the modules that carry them.
IEC 61508
Functional Safety of E/E/PE Safety-Related Systems
The umbrella functional-safety standard: SIL targets per safety function, verified with quantified hardware failure metrics and architectural constraints.
IEC 61511
Functional Safety — Process Industry Sector
The process-sector application of IEC 61508: safety instrumented functions allocated a SIL, then verified with PFD calculations built on defensible failure rates.
ISO 14224
Reliability & Maintenance Data for Petroleum, Petrochemical and Natural Gas
The taxonomy that makes field data usable: equipment boundaries, failure modes and maintenance records coded so they can feed analysis — the same discipline behind the OREDA handbooks.
IEC 60300
Dependability Management
The dependability-programme framework: reliability, availability and maintainability managed as engineering requirements through the asset lifecycle, not reported after the fact.
A plant-typical chain
One model, every analysis.
How an energy asset runs safety integrity and production availability on one system model — every number traceable from SIL target to field evidence.
- Allocate the SIL and availability targetsAllocationBreak plant-level availability and each safety function's SIL down the equipment hierarchy — every package owner sees the budget they carry.
- Model production availabilityRBDReliability block diagrams capture trains, redundancy and buffers; predicted failure and repair rates feed the blocks live, so the availability figure moves with the design.
- FMECA the critical equipmentFMECAFailure modes on rotating machinery, static equipment and SIS elements inherit the same rates the RBD uses — criticality ranks itself against production and safety consequence.
- Verify the SIL with fault treesFault TreeDangerous-failure paths per safety instrumented function, quantified against the IEC 61511 target — the verification recalculates the day an input rate changes.
- Let field data recalibrate everythingWeibullISO 14224-coded failure records flow in through FRACAS; Weibull fits replace generic rates, and the availability model and SIL verification re-age honestly.
Run safety integrity and uptime on one model.
See how an energy asset connects SIL allocation, availability modelling, FMECA, fault-tree verification and field-data feedback on one shared system model — on your own infrastructure.