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with information about failure mechanisms, maintenance costs, and
operational impact. The powerful Monte Carlo simulation package then lets
you make forward looking projections about plant capacity, maintenance
costs, spares usage, resource usage, operational losses, safety, environmental,
and operational risk.
Avsim + is an availability, reliability, maintainability simulator which allows
the user to represent system failure logic using Reliability Block Diagrams
to model complex systems. At each block the engineer can enter the capacity
and the parameters representing the reliability, corrective maintenance
actions, sparing needs, resource needs and any planned maintenance or
inspection activities. Using a Monte Carlo simulation engine, the plant can
be simulated over a specified lifetime, allowing the engineer to make
comparisons between overall plant capacity, unavailability levels, and the
associated costs.
AvSim+ provides significant business benefit by:
• Projecting the business impact of design decisions far into the future.
• Optimizing spare parts holdings to minimize investment in spares
while maximizing facility performance.
• Projecting manning requirements into the future.
• Helping drive the maintenance budgeting process for New and
Existing facilities.
To learn more about how AvSim+ can help your business visit
www.reliability.com.au
Full working demonstration versions and online demonstrations can be
arranged through our website.
ARMS FaultTree+
FaultTree+ is the world’s most popular fault tree software package incorporating
fault tree analysis, event tree analysis and markov analysis.
Software Details - Functionality:
Isograph RAMS software suite has built its reputation on the efficiency,
a c c u r a c y, stability and ruggedness of its Fa u l t Tree+ product. This is why
there are thousands of Fa u l t Tree+ installations world-wide that are currently
being used on major projects in industries as varied as aerospace, defence,
automotive, nuclear, rail, chemical process plant, oil & gas and medical
amongst many others.
FaultTree+ can efficiently solve fault trees of the order of 20,000 gates and
20,000 basic events, using world class analytical methods. It is the most
advanced, and flexible FaultTree application available on the market.
The fault tree method involves the creation of a fault tree diagram composed
of gates and basic events that represents the logical description of a system
failure, known as the TOP event, in terms of the failure of the components
that comprise the system. After creating the diagram the user assigns failure
characteristics of the system components. On completion of the model the
system analysis is performed. To do this the Fa u l t Tree+ software first
determines the minimum combinations of component failures that will cause
a system failure, these are known as the minimal cut sets. Finally Fa u l t Tr e e +
calculates the quantitative parameters such as system unavailability and
failure frequency.
Fa u l t Tree+ includes an event tree analysis option. The event tree model may
be created independently of the fault tree model or may use fault tree
analysis gate results as the source of event tree probabilities. Fa u l t Tree+ also
allows the user to construct Markov models for use as the source of basic
event data. The Markov models may also be analysed independently of the
fault tree analysis.
To learn more about how Fa u l t Tree+ can help your business visit
www.reliability.com.au
Full working demonstration versions and online demonstrations can be
arranged through our website.
ARMS FRACAS
Collect, record and analyze system failures across multiple sites, using The
Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS).
Software Details - Functionality:
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