RAM and RCA

• RAM analysis

  1. RAM Purpose
  2. Types of RAM performance predictions
  3.  RAM technique – Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS)
     1. “Simulating” a single mission of 10000 hours
     2. Averaging the results of many simulation runs
     3. Summary of the RAM MCS method
     4. A simple first example
     5. Another simple example
     6. RAM example 3 – a complex system
     7. RAM example 4 – a second complex system

• Root Cause analysis (RCA)

  1. RCA –purpose and definitions (NASA)
  2. Undesired outcomes, Events, Conditions, and Barriers
  3. Proximate causes, Root causes, Intermediate causes
  4. Organizational factors
  5. Contributing factor
  6. RCA activities
  7. Accident investigation
  8. RCA tools

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