Deterministic and non-deterministic methods for analyzing and improving equipment performance in offshore industry based on dependability

The objective of this paper is to present a framework for assessing and improving equipment performance based on dependability. The main idea is to employ Principle Component Analysis (PCA) and Importance Analysis (IA) to provide insight on equipment performance. The validity of the model is verified and validated by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Furthermore, a non-parametric correlation method, namely, Spearman correlation experiment shows a high level of correlation between the findings of PCA and DEA. At first PCA is used for assessing the performance of equipment and ranking them. IA is then performed for the worst equipment which could have most impact on the overall system effectiveness to classify their components based on the Component Criticality Measures (CCM). The analysis of the classified components can ferret out the leading causes and common-cause events to pave a way toward decreasing failure interdependency and magnitude of incidents which ultimately maximize overall operational effectiveness.