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Functional Safety Suite

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Features and Characteristics:

  • A graphical user interface to create and edit models.
  • Event Trees, including branches with more than two options.
  • Architectures: automatic creation of fault trees based on schematic diagrams.
  • Extended Fault Trees: Monte-Carlo simulation provides many gate types the enable modeling of practically any particular system to be modeled and evaluated with high accuracy.
  • Extended Reliability Block Diagrams: different parallel structures available
  • Extended Markov models: not only transition rates but also transition probabilities are supported, and events at discrete times (e.g. restoration).
  • Conversion of Fault Trees to Reliability Block Diagrams and vice verse.
  • Conversion of Fault Trees to Markov models, including common causes and condition events.
  • Steady state quantitative evaluation of all models.
  • Transient (time-variant) evaluation of Fault Trees and Markov models.
  • Supports modularization of Fault Trees.
  • Supports linking between models.
  • Many occurance/failure models for basic events.
  • Easy handling of common cause failures, even through transfer-gates and combination gates.
  • Graphical output of unavailability, unreliability and occurance rate (failure frequency) as function of time.
  • Modeling, simulation and graphical analysis of complex components with different failure modes (safe and unsafe) with time variant rates, incl. detailed calculus of the characteristic values (e.g. b10, b10_d, MTBF, MTBF_d etc.).
  • Export of all graphical representations in bitmap (PNG) or vector graphics format (SVG, DrawingML).
  • Export of the prime implicants (minimal cut-sets) in HTML or CSV format.
  • Export of transient data in CSV format.
  • Analysis of the importance of basic events or generic basic events to the top event of a Fault Tree or Markov model.
  • No proprietary or binary file formats: all data is stored in XML text files.

Screenshots

Event tree:

Architecture:

Fault tree:

Reliability block diagram:

Markov model:

Complex component:

Chart of complex component values: