Module 1
Dependability and Resilience Requirements
- RAMS, safety and resilience concepts
- Mission profiles, operating context and criticality
- Measures, targets and requirement allocation
- Dependability programme and assurance planning
Assurance and Resilience Programme
Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety and Resilience
Integrate RAMS, safety and resilience into requirements, architecture and lifecycle decisions for dependable systems.
Course overview
Design dependability and resilience into the system rather than inspect them in later.
Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety and Resilience develops an integrated approach to system dependability, hazard control, supportability and recovery from disruption.
Participants translate RAMS and resilience objectives into requirements and architecture considerations, apply qualitative and quantitative analysis methods, explore reliability and maintainability trade-offs, structure safety assurance and examine resilience across technical, human and organisational dimensions.
The course emphasises lifecycle decision-making so dependability measures influence design, support, cost, operational readiness and continuous improvement.
Learning outcomes
What participants will be able to do.
By the end of the course, participants should be able to:
- Define reliability, availability, maintainability, safety and resilience measures appropriate to a system context.
- Translate dependability objectives into requirements, allocations and architecture decisions.
- Apply FMEA/FMECA-style reasoning, reliability block concepts and fault-tree logic to failure analysis.
- Assess maintainability, supportability, repair concepts and their effect on availability.
- Identify hazards, analyse risk and define safety controls and assurance evidence.
- Evaluate common-cause, cascading, dependency and environmental failure mechanisms.
- Design resilience strategies for anticipation, absorption, adaptation, recovery and learning.
- Integrate RAMS, safety, resilience, lifecycle cost and operational readiness into trade decisions.
Who should attend
Designed for professionals who contribute to complex-system decisions and delivery.
- Reliability, maintainability and RAMS engineers.
- Systems, safety and assurance engineers.
- Asset management, maintenance and supportability professionals.
- Architecture, design and integration engineers.
- Technical leaders responsible for dependable or safety-significant systems.
Prerequisites
Professionally relevant and application-focused.
Participants should have engineering, asset, assurance or systems experience. Basic quantitative comfort is useful, although the course explains methods and focuses on decision application.
Course structure
A five-module systems engineering learning journey.
The sequence develops understanding, application and practical engineering outputs progressively across five connected Modules.
Module 2
Reliability and Failure Analysis
- Failure modes, mechanisms and effects
- FMEA/FMECA reasoning and criticality
- Reliability block and fault-tree concepts
- Common cause, dependencies and design improvement
Module 3
Availability, Maintainability and Supportability
- Availability drivers and operational profiles
- Maintainability, repair and restoration concepts
- Spares, support resources and maintenance policy
- Lifecycle cost and availability trade-offs
Module 4
Safety Engineering and Assurance
- Hazard identification and risk evaluation
- Safety requirements and control hierarchy
- Safety verification and assurance arguments
- Change, configuration and residual risk
Module 5
Resilience, Trade Studies and Operational Readiness
- Resilience to disruption and degradation
- Detection, graceful degradation, recovery and adaptation
- RAMS/resilience trade studies and decision criteria
- Readiness, monitoring, learning and integrated case
Learning experience
Apply engineering concepts—not simply remember terminology.
Specify
Define dependable performance
Translate mission and operating context into measurable RAMS and resilience requirements.
Analyse
Understand failure and hazard
Use structured methods to expose vulnerabilities, causes and consequences.
Design
Improve availability and support
Make maintainability, supportability and redundancy decisions explicit.
Assure
Build confidence
Connect safety and dependability claims to objective evidence.
Resile
Prepare for disruption
Design for detection, adaptation, recovery and learning under degraded conditions.
Completion requirements
Demonstrate participation, application and professional judgement.
- Participate in failure, hazard and resilience analysis workshops.
- Complete RAMS requirement and architecture exercises.
- Develop an assurance/resilience case for the integrated scenario.
- Complete knowledge checks and a workplace action plan.
Participant outputs
Leave with practical systems engineering artefacts.
- RAMS and resilience requirement set.
- Failure-mode/criticality analysis.
- Availability and maintainability decision model.
- Hazard and safety-control register.
- Resilience strategy and recovery concept.
- Assurance and operational-readiness checklist.
Delivery options
Choose the format that fits your people and engineering environment.
Instructor-led
Live Classroom
Face-to-face delivery with facilitated discussion, system cases, engineering workshops, technical reviews and immediate feedback.
Instructor-led
Live Virtual Classroom
Interactive online delivery using collaborative workspaces, modelling activities, breakout analysis and guided application.
Flexible
Blended Learning
A structured combination of preparation, live sessions, applied assignments, engineering artefacts and follow-up application.
Organisation-specific
Corporate and In-Company
Tailored delivery aligned with organisational lifecycle processes, standards, systems, engineering roles, models and capability priorities.
Frequently asked questions
Course information and participation.
Does the course include quantitative reliability calculations?
It introduces key quantitative concepts where they support decisions, while also emphasising qualitative failure, hazard and resilience analysis. The exact mathematical depth can be tailored.
Is safety treated as part of RAMS?
Safety is integrated with reliability, availability, maintainability and resilience while retaining its distinct hazard, risk-control and assurance responsibilities.
Does the course cover resilience as well as reliability?
Yes. Reliability focuses on failure-free performance; resilience additionally considers disruption, degradation, adaptation, recovery and learning.
Is the course suitable for asset-intensive sectors?
Yes. Maintainability, supportability, availability, lifecycle cost and operational readiness make it particularly relevant to asset-intensive environments.
Can the course be customised to our assurance process?
Yes. Corporate delivery can align with organisational risk matrices, hazard processes, technical reviews and assurance evidence.
Take the next step
Engineer dependable, safe and resilient systems across their full operating life.
Discuss public delivery, a corporate cohort or a tailored programme aligned with your organisation’s systems, lifecycle environment and engineering capability priorities.