Reliability, availability, maintainability and safety

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Inengineering, reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS)^[1]^[2] is used to characterize a product or system:

Reliability: Ability to perform a specific function and may be given as design reliability or operational reliability
Availability: Ability to keep a functioning state in the given environment
Maintainability: Ability to be timely and easily maintained (including servicing, inspection and check, repair and/or modification)
Safety: Ability not to harm people, the environment, or any assets during a whole life cycle.

References

^ System safety, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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