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Consulting Frameworks 3
Consulting Frameworks 3
Availability - Achieving
Reliable and
Supportable Designs
August 2007
Uptime
Availabili ty
Total _ Time
There are two flavours of availability:
• Inherent Availability (Ai), and
• Operational Availability (Ao)
Physical
(As – Designed)
Solution
Architectecture
Physical characteristics
Operations
(Customer / Business
Environment)
Support
These concepts apply to all levels of a system - from machine level to facility
level and includes both man and machine and their impact on “outcomes.”
Delivery Processes
Evaluation of Outcomes
Delivered Outcomes
• Early consideration
• Cost of design changes gets
increasingly more expensive to
implement
“Transforming Strategy into Capability”
Design Influence on Outcome
1.2
1
Concept
0.8
De monstra tion &
0.6 Va lida tion
Full S c a le
0.4 De ve lopme nt
P roduction &
0.2 Operation
Dis pos al
0
S cope Remaining for Decis ions to Influence LCC
Decis Strategy
“Transforming ions already
intomade having
Capability” an irrevers ible influence on LCC
Distribution of Total Costs
Travel
Travel
Testability?
Testability? to
to Personnel
Personnel
Site?
Site? Skill
Skill??
Time
Time
to Waiting
Waiting
to Maintainability?
Maintainability?
Repair? for
for
Repair? Spares
Spares??
2000
1800
1600
1400
Re pa ir, wa tc h,
1200 a dmin.
Othe r prioritie s
1000
800 S e a Conditions
600
Wa iting for s pa re s
400
200
0
FP B FP B FP B FP B
Cla s s Cla s s Cla s s Cla s s
1 2 3 4
Ao = 99.999
1,200
MTBF (x 1000 hrs)
1,000
800
600
400
200
0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
MDT (hours)