Reliability, availability, and maintainability

Abstract

Many engineering fields can benefit from reliability, availability, and maintainability, concepts and techniques. Fire protection engineering is not an exception. For example, fire protection engineers may be interested in estimating the number of failures of fire pumps under their watch. Other practical applications may include increasing the reliability and/or availability of a fire protection system, optimizing inspection, testing and maintenance intervals and calculating probabilistic values for a fire risk assessment. Asthe use of risk-informed, performance based methods increases, fire protection researchers and engineers continue to improve and apply reliability, availability, and maintainability methods and techniques in the field.