There is a number of prerequisites and a number of options you may set up before starting the reliability prediction:

 

1. Create project

See the Creating a new project paragraph.

Pay attention to FR units selection - it will affect your resulting FR display

 

2. Build the Product Tree

See the Product Tree Building paragraph.

Pay attention to specifying the temperature and environment for the top item and also to the assemblies and components (if required).

 

3. Choose the analysis mode - Operating or Non-operating

 See the Operating vs Non-Operating Mode paragraph

 

4. Select default Reliability prediction methods.

 See the Project Configuration paragraph and Choosing suitable Reliability Prediction Method paragraph.

 

Then you may start components reliability data input and calculation.