The answers to these questions can have a dramatic effect on your operations and maintenance strategies and also on bottom line performance. RAMP is a powerful availability modelling package developed by Advantage specifically for the analysis of process systems. RAMP models the effects of scheduled and unscheduled downtime on process throughput, establishing relationships between equipment reliability, configuration, maintenance strategy, spares and resources.
RAMP is a simulation programme capable of modelling simple or complex process systems of all types.
Advantage uses the tool extensively in its own consultancy work, but it can also be purchased for use in-house by clients. Several hundred copies are in use world wide. RAMP has a user friendly Windows interface. Block diagrams representing the process can be easily built up on the screen, and clicking on any item will open a screen form for the entry of data defining reliability, capacity, repair time, spares required, etc. Finite spares and maintenance resources.