 | Welcome to RAM Commander |
 | Introduction |
| RAM Commander History |
| Modules Overview |
| Useful Features |
| Technical Overview |
| What you need to know |
| Getting Help |
| Getting Started |
| Introduction |
| Editions |
| Installation |
| Installation Requirements |
| Standalone Installation |
| Network Installation |
| Server Installation |
| Workstation Installation |
| Standalone Installation + Common Network Database |
| Multiple versions |
| Licensing |
| Local USB plug |
| Updating plug configuration |
| Reporting plug configuration |
| Network USB plug |
| Local License File |
| Deleting license |
| Sending License Report |
| Network License File |
| Running RAM Commander |
| Major Upgrade |
| Standalone Configuration - Upgrade |
| Network Configuration - Upgrade |
| Minor Update |
| Uninstall or Modify |
| Install Component Library |
| Administration |
| Users Management |
| Projects Management |
| Libraries and Defaults Management |
| Settings Management |
| User authentication using AD/LDAP |
| User Activity Log |
| Troubleshooting |
| Installation |
| Licensing and Plugs |
| Access to Data |
| Reporting |
| General Problems |
| Summary |
| RAM Commander Concepts |
| RAM Commander Process |
| Stage 1: Project Creation |
| Stage 2: Product Tree Building |
| Stage 3: Reliability and Maintainability Calculations |
| Stage 4: Reliability Analysis |
| Stage 5: Reliability and Availability Modeling |
| Stage 6: Failure Analysis |
| Stage 7: Safety Analysis |
| Stage 8: Additional Analysis Types |
| Stage 9: Next steps/recurrent analysis |
| RAM Commander Data Flow |
| RAM Commander Data Organization |
| Summary |
| RAM Commander Fundamentals |
| Windows |
| Toolbar |
| Status Bar |
| Lists |
| Projects |
| Product Tree View |
| Reports |
| Text Reports |
| Customization |
| View Stored Reports |
| Report Generator |
| Reports by MS Word Template |
| Graphs |
| Data Exchange |
| Spelling checker |
| Working with Projects |
| Projects list |
| Working with the project list |
| Multi-user access |
| Creating a new project |
| Managing permissions |
| Advanced Permissions |
| Opening project |
| Backup/Restore |
| Project copies/revisions |
| Additional Operations |
| Project Translation to Different Languages |
| Product Tree |
| Activating the Product Tree View |
| Product Tree Navigation |
| Selecting Current Analysis |
| Expanding and Collapsing |
| Opening items |
| Search |
| Changing tree presentation |
| Changing "Name" of tree items |
| Custom tree fields |
| Normal/Functional View |
| Product Tree Building |
| Project Configuration |
| Top item definition |
| New item creation |
| New item defaults |
| Quick Create |
| Item data editing |
| Environment and Temperature Definition |
| Standard Environments |
| Additional operations with items |
| Deleting items |
| Copy/Move items |
| Global Change |
| Massive Entry |
| To open the Massive Entry list |
| To add new items in a Massive Entry list |
| Additional operations with the list |
| Count Parts Utility |
| Massive Entry Reports |
| Copy between fields |
| Marking with Colors |
| Organize |
| Import/Export |
| Import Wizard |
| Step 1 |
| Step 2 - Text files |
| Step 3 - Text files |
| Step 2 - Mentor Graphics |
| Step 2 - Excel/Access files |
| Troubleshooting |
| Step 3/4 - Mapping |
| Database Fields Index |
| Item Code abbreviations |
| Depth field |
| Parent Ref.Des. field |
| Hierarchical Parent Ref.Des. field |
| Stress |
| Search in Library |
| Level of replace/repair |
| Failure Rate source switch |
| MCT/MLH source switch |
| Step 4/5 - Finish |
| Using Import Wizard for tree update |
| Export |
| Reports |
| Reliability Calculation |
| Configurating Reliability Module |
| Operating vs Non-Operating Mode |
| Choosing suitable Reliability Prediction Method |
| Item FR Calculation |
| Component Failure Rate prediction |
| Special Fields in the Prediction Method Screens |
| Junction Temperature |
| Stress values |
| Method-Specific features |
| NPRD-95 |
| NPRD-2011 |
| IEC, FIDES, 217Plus |
| FIDES 2009 |
| Non-Operating MIL-HDBK-217E |
| Notes on Environments and Methods |
| Stress/Strength |
| Hybrid and Substrate |
| Specify known fixed FR |
| Specify known temperature-dependent FR |
| Failure Rate Allocation |
| Project Recalculation |
| Log File |
| Reports |
| Reliability Libraries and Defaults |
| Global and Project Libraries |
| Component Library |
| To view the project component library |
| To view the global component library |
| Working with the Component Library |
| To edit component data |
| To delete component from the library |
| To insert new component into the library |
| To find component |
| Transfer data from a project to global library |
| Reports |
| Data Import |
| Using Component Libraries in Reliability Prediction |
| Retrieve or save single component data |
| Load from Library |
| Load to Library |
| Cross-Reference |
| Using Cross-Reference Library in Reliability Prediction |
| Data Import |
| Part Number Recognition |
| GPRD |
| Entering the GPRD Library |
| General Part Data |
| FMECA data |
| Field Failure Rate Tables |
| Manual FR Table Data Entry |
| Pack to Box |
| Import |
| Import from ASCII file |
| Import Wizard |
| Copying and Deleting Failure Rate Tables |
| Using GPRD Library in Reliability Prediction |
| Failure Rate Table Formulae |
| Copying GPRD Library between projects |
| Reports |
| Calculation Defaults |
| Managing Libraries |
| Copy libraries between projects |
| Global Library Files Location |
| Back Up and Restore of Global Libraries |
| Reliability Analysis |
| Temperature Curve |
| Pareto |
| Mission Profile |
| Defining a Mission Profile |
| To add a mission profile |
| To add a mission profile phase |
| To delete a mission profile phase |
| To copy a mission profile |
| To delete a mission profile |
| Mission Profile Calculation |
| Summary |
| Burn-In Report |
| Maintainability Prediction |
| Philosophy and Assumptions |
| Information Required |
| Maintainability Prediction Modeling |
| Maintenance Corrective Time |
| Mean Time to Repair |
| Ambiguity Factor |
| Maximum Corrective Maintenance Time |
| Mean Maintenance Man-hours per Maintenance Action |
| Maintainability Allocation |
| Preliminary Steps |
| Customize Organizational Levels |
| Set Mct max Calculation Method |
| Performing Maintainability Analysis |
| To enter Mct data |
| MIL-HDBK-472 Procedure 5A |
| To define MIL-472 Procedure 5A maintainability task information |
| MIL-472 Procedure 5 Task Definition |
| To define a tasks using user-defined times |
| To retrieve a standard time from the standard times library |
| To retrieve a standard task from the task library |
| To define a task’s maintenance data |
| Mean Time To Repair - MTTR |
| To compute MTTR |
| To calculate MTTR and Mct in Quick mode |
| Recalculate All |
| To calculate MTTR and Mct in Recalculate All mode |
| Fault Isolation and Ambiguity |
| Maintainability Allocation |
| To perform maintainability allocation |
| To copy maintainability tasks data to other items |
| Maintainability Libraries |
| To access the Standard Times Library |
| To add or edit a record in the Standard Times Library |
| To delete a record in the Standard Times Library |
| To access the Standard Tasks Library |
| To add a new task to the Standard Tasks Library |
| To delete a task from the Standard Tasks Library |
| To edit a task in the Standard Tasks Library |
| Standard Tasks/Times Library Reports |
| To access the Maintenance Library |
| Maintainability Reports |
| RCM Module |
| Summary |
| Derating/Stress Analysis |
| Defining Derating Guidelines |
| To define Derating Guidelines |
| Print Derating Guidelines |
| Entering Actual Stress Values |
| Derating Reports |
| Summary |
| Reliability Block Diagrams |
| RBD Basics |
| Drawing the Diagram |
| To create a new RBD diagram |
| To change an RBD configuration |
| To add an element to an RBD |
| To enter data for an RBD element |
| K/N Element Configuration |
| To create a SubRBD |
| To delete an RBD element |
| Saving and Opening Reliability Block Diagrams |
| Working with Diagrams |
| Elements Color |
| To fold a series of RBD elements to fit the screen |
| To zoom in or out of an RBD |
| To copy an RBD element |
| Update RBD Information |
| Export to MEADEP |
| Export to MS Word, Excel etc. |
| Global Changes |
| RBD Calculations |
| To calculate an RBD |
| Formulas |
| Reliability Distributions |
| Availability Distributions |
| Basic calculations |
| K-out-of-N With Repair |
| K-out-of-N Without Repair |
| Equivalent Lambda/MTBF |
| MTBCF and R(t) |
| To calculate MTBCF and R(t) |
| Monte Carlo Simulations |
| To initiate a Monte Carlo simulation |
| RBD Reports |
| Summary |
| System Configuration |
| To open the configuration system list |
| To create a new configuration |
| Adding Blocks to Configuration |
| Working with existing configurations |
| To update RAM info |
| To delete an item |
| To locate an item in a tree |
| To reorder items inside the Configuration |
| To edit an item |
| RBD diagram building |
| MTBCF Calculation |
| Reports |
| Summary |
| Reliability Growth |
| Reliability Growth Modeling |
| To view reliability growth data |
| To enter reliability growth data |
| To compute reliability growth planning parameters |
| Reliability Growth Formula |
| Reliability Growth Reports |
| To generate reliability growth reports |
| Summary |
| Spare Parts Analysis |
| Operation Modes |
| Product Tree Data |
| Spare Parts Calculation |
| To add an operation scenario |
| Working with existing Scenarios |
| To copy a spare parts operation scenario |
| To delete a scenario |
| To edit a scenario |
| Generating Spare Parts Reports |
| Spare Parts Optimization |
| Optimization CriteriaThe spare parts module supports the computation of two optimization criteria: |
| Constraint |
| Optimization Algorithm |
| Optimization Parameters |
| To set operation scenario parameters |
| Generating Optimization Reports |
| To generate an optimization report |
| To review optimal spare part quantities |
| Spare Parts Analysis Formulae |
| Possible Important Applications |
| Compound Operation Modes |
| Spares and Level of Repair Decisions |
| Summary |
| Markov Analysis |
| Initiating Markov module |
| Drawing the diagram |
| Draw a state |
| Draw a Transition |
| State Data |
| Transition Data |
| Diagram data |
| Working with diagram |
| Calculation |
| Reports |
| FMECA |
| Initiating FMECA module |
| FMECA Module Basics |
| Configurating FMECA module |
| FMEA or FMECA |
| FMECA Library |
| FMECA Grid Customization |
| Phase selection |
| FMECA Libraries |
| To access FMECA libraries |
| FMECA Libraries Definition |
| Generating a Library Report |
| Global Change of the End Effect Library |
| Copy FMECA Libraries Between Projects |
| Entering FMECA data for Item |
| Entering Next Higher Effects |
| To define a single NHE |
| To select affected assembly |
| To define multiple NHEs for a single FM |
| To define NHE for NHE |
| Additional operations in FMECA grid |
| FM Column Pop-up Menu Options |
| Alpha Column Pop-up Menu Options |
| NHE Column Pop-up Menu Options |
| End Effect Column Pop-up Menu Options |
| Testability Analysis Module (TAM) |
| To define tests for FM |
| Testability Analysis Reports |
| Functional Blocks |
| To create functional blocks |
| Working with Functional Blocks |
| FMECA Reports |
| To Generate an FMECA Report |
| Import/Export |
| Functional Blocks Import |
| Summary |
| Fault Tree Analysis |
| FTA basics |
| FTA module initiation |
| Building FTA Diagrams |
| Creating a new Fault Tree |
| Define FTA properties |
| FTA diagram building |
| Transfers |
| Events library |
| Delete elements |
| Copy & Paste |
| Remarks |
| Automatic FTA building |
| Print preview, Print, Zoom |
| Export Diagram as Picture |
| Using Common Cause Failures |
| Gobal Change |
| Importing Fault Trees |
| Import FT from RiskSpectrum |
| Import FT from Isograph FT+ |
| Import FT from CAFTA |
| Import FT from Aralia Simtree |
| Analysis & Calculation |
| Basic Event Types |
| MCS Calculation |
| Tree Unavailability calculation |
| Easary-Proschan Formula |
| Frequency W(t) Calculation |
| PFH and PFD Calculation |
| Lambda Equivalent |
| House Event Profiles |
| Importance / Sensitivity Analysis |
| FALSE/TRUE Propagation |
| Repeated Events Indication |
| Reports |
| Summary |
| Event Tree Analysis |
| ETA module initiation |
| ETA diagram building |
| Events library |
| Delete |
| Export Diagram as Picture |
| Print preview, Print, Zoom |
| Analysis & Calculation |
| Reports |
| Summary |
| Process/Design FMEA |
| FMEA Basics |
| FMEA module initiation |
| Defining FMEA Properties |
| Drawing the Diagram |
| Drawing a Node |
| Drawing a Link |
| Multiselection |
| Stretching a Link |
| Drawing a Reflexive Link |
| Delete |
| Copy & Paste |
| Sub-diagrams |
| Print, Zoom, Undo |
| Export Diagram as Picture |
| Inserting nodes from Product Tree |
| Failure Modes, Causes and Effects |
| To create a new Failure Mode |
| To create a new Failure Cause |
| To edit or delete Failure Modes |
| To copy failure mode |
| Spelling checker |
| To work with cumulative list of failures |
| Selecting Critical Failure Causes |
| Team Collaboration |
| To define the expert team |
| To collect rankings manually |
| To collect rankings automatically |
| Voting System Installation |
| To install and configure the Voting System |
| Making Decisions on Corrective Action |
| Libraries |
| To view and update FMEA libraries |
| To update a library during FMEA data input |
| To select a field value from a library |
| To copy libraries between projects |
| Load to Library |
| Reports |
| To print the report |
| Summary |
| Safety Analysis |
| Safety Module Basics |
| Safety module initiation |
| Safety Libraries |
| Working with Libraries |
| Building the Functional Tree |
| Working with different standards/recommendations |
| Working with Failure Conditions |
| Probability Calculation |
| Reports |
| MMEL |
| Prerequisites for MMEL generation using RAM Commander MMEL Module |
| MMEL Analysis process |
| To perform MMEL analysis |
| 1st step: MMEL Quantitative Analysis |
| MMEL Module Quantitative Analysis Algorithm |
| To select a required algorithm |
| To activate quantitative analysis |
| 2nd step: MMEL Five Column Format Report Preparation |
| MMEL Module Reports |
| Summary |
| MSG-3 |
| Systems and Power Plant Analysis |
| Initiating MSG-3 Module |
| MSG-3 Procedure Steps |
| Step 1 – System Definition |
| Step 2 – MSI Selection |
| Step 3 – FMECA |
| Step 4 – Failure Effect Categorization |
| Step 5 – Task Selection |
| Step 6 – Task Interval |
| Step 7 – MSG-3 Report |
| Structural Analysis |
| Zonal Analysis |
| L/HIRF Analysis |
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