RAM Commander’s Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) module allows you to quickly and easily define and compute scenarios for reliability, availability and mean time between critical failures (MTBCF). You can use analytic or simulation techniques to evaluate RBDs. Analytical techniques are possible for most configurations. When such analyses are not possible, you can use RAM Commander’s built-in Monte Carlo simulation engine to evaluate the RBD scenario.
RBD Module features:
| • | Graphical representaton of a block diagram |
| • | Link to Reliability/Maintainability/FMECA modules |
| • | Calculation of Availability, Reliability, R(t), MTBCF |
| o | Complex reliability configurations, including standby, partially loaded (warm) and active redundancy |
| o | Full or restricted repair with non-exponential distribution of time-to-repair |
| o | Non-exponential distribution of time-to-failure (Normal, Weibull, etc.) |
| o | Analysis under Non-steady, transient state |
| o | Analysis of periodical inspection policy |
| o | K-out-of-N with non ideal switch |
| • | All types of reliability configurations are supported by RBD module: |
| o | K out of N: * active redundancy (hot), stand-by (cold), partially loaded (warm); |
| o | with repair, without repair, with restricted repair. |
| • | All common distributions of time to failure and time to repair are available: |
| • | Interactive graphic editor with “Drag and Drop” feature providing intuitive display and convenient manipulation tools for creating of any RBD configuration |
| • | Simple and fast transfer of reliability and maintainability item data to the RBD module by selecting the target and source items on the graphic RBD screen. |
| • | Flexible zoom, color palette, direct printing of any RBD configuration |
| • | Database for each element includes: |
| o | identification parameters: ref. des., part number, description, etc. |
| o | type of time-to-failure distribution and corresponding parameters (e.g., MTBF, Sigma, etc.) |
| o | type of time-to-repair distribution and corresponding parameters |
