IEC TR 62278-4:2016

IEC TR 62278-4 ®
Edition 1.0 2016-12
TECHNICAL
REPORT
Railway applications – Specification and demonstration of reliability, availability,
maintainability and safety (RAMS) –
Part 4: RAM risk and RAM life cycle aspects

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IEC TR 62278-4 ®
Edition 1.0 2016-12
TECHNICAL
REPORT
Railway applications – Specification and demonstration of reliability, availability,

maintainability and safety (RAMS) –

Part 4: RAM risk and RAM life cycle aspects

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
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ICS 45.060.01 ISBN 978-2-8322-3672-7

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
INTRODUCTION . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 6
3.1 Terms and definitions. 6
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 7
4 Railway RAM . 7
4.1 General . 7
4.2 RAM risk . 7
4.2.1 RAM risk concept . 7
4.2.2 RAM risk analysis . 7
4.2.3 RAM risk evaluation and acceptance . 9
5 RAM life cycle . 11
5.1 General . 11
5.2 Requirements to be considered in phase 1. 11
5.3 System requirements for RAM in phase 4 . 11
5.3.1 Objectives . 11
5.3.2 Inputs . 11
5.3.3 Requirements . 11
5.3.4 Deliverables . 12
5.4 Requirements to be considered in phase 7. 12
Annex A (informative) Examples of reliability, availability and maintainability
parameters for railway applications . 13
Annex B (informative) Example of state transition diagram for IOCM . 15

Figure B.1 – Model of state transition diagram . 15

Table 1 – Example of categories of frequency of occurrence of PIOCM events . 8
Table 2 – Example of PIOCM severity levels . 8
Table 3 – Example of frequency – consequence matrix . 10
Table 4 – Example of qualitative RAM risk categories . 10
Table 5 – Example of RAM risk evaluation and acceptance. 10
Table A.1 – Examples of reliability parameters. 13
Table A.2 – Examples of availability parameters . 13
Table A.3 – Examples of transportation service parameters . 14
Table A.4 – Examples of comfort service parameters . 14
Table A.5 – Examples of maintenance parameters . 14

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FOREWORD
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IEC TR 62278-4, which is a technical report, has been prepared by IEC technical committee 9:
Electrical equipment and systems for railways.
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This document has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
A list of all parts in the IEC 62278 series, published under the general title Railway
applications – Specification and demonstration of reliability, availability, maintainabilty and
safety (RAMS), can be found on the IEC website.
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INTRODUCTION
IEC 62278 series Railway applications – Specification and demonstration of reliability,
availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) is issued for demonstration of the RAMS
aspects. It is based on the European Norm EN 50126:1999 that was prepared by Technical
Committee CENELEC TC 9X: Electrical and electronic applications for railways. It was
submitted to the National Committees for voting under the Fast Track Procedure. This
standard is widely used for safety requirements for the safety within the railway field, with
relevant safety standards for railway applications such as IEC 62425 and IEC 62279.
For rolling stock, the guidance on applying the RAM requirements in IEC 62278 is issued as
IEC TR 62278-3, which is aimed at the customers/operators and main suppliers of rolling
stock. The RAM aspects are important for the whole railway systems, not limited to rolling
stock. This means that the RAM aspects need to be elaborated upon in the current version of
IEC 62278.
IEC technical committee 9 set up Ad-hoc group 9 (AHG 9) with remit to study the possibilities
to develop a Technical Report giving input in order to allow the introduction of RAM risk and
RAM life cycle aspects in a future revision of EN 50126 by CENELEC TC 9X or of IEC 62278
by IEC TC 9. This technical report is the result of the study in AHG 9 in order to achieve
suitable RAM aspects in the future version of IEC 62278.

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