BLOCKSIM

Integration to Empower the Reliability Organization

BlockSim Software Capability Highlights

  • Series, Parallel and Complex
  • k-out-of-n
  • Standby
  • Load Sharing
  • Subdiagrams
  • Multi Blocks and Mirrored Blocks

  • AND and OR Gates
  • Voting Gates (k-out-of-n)
  • Inhibit Gates
  • NOT, NAND and NOR Gates
  • Standby Configurations Using:
    • Standby Gates
    • Priority AND Gates
    • Sequence Enforcing Gates
  • Load Sharing Gates
  • Subdiagrams

  • Exact System Reliability Equation
  • Minimal Cut Sets
  • Metrics:
    • Reliability and Probability of Failure
    • Conditional Reliability
    • Conditional Probability of Failure
    • Reliable Life (aka Warranty Time)
    • BX% Life
    • Mean Life
    • Failure Rate
  • Plots:
    • Reliability/Unreliability vs. Time
    • pdf
    • Failure Rate vs. Time
    • Reliability Importance Plots

  • Duty Cycles
  • Maintenance Durations
  • Restoration Factors
  • Direct & Indirect Maintenance Costs
  • Spare Parts Availability
  • Maintenance Crew Logistics
  • State Change Triggers
  • Batch Simulation
  • Metrics:
    • Mean and Point Availability
    • Mean and Point Unavailability
    • Reliability and Probability of Failure
    • Mean Time to First Failure
  • Plots (for System and/or Block):
    • Point Reliability
    • Point Availability
    • Mean Availability
    • Costs
    • Up/Down Timeline
    • Block or System Downtime
    • Expected Failures
    • Expected Downing Events
    • Criticality Metrics (e.g., RS FCI, etc.)
    • Block Bubble Plot
    • Crew Metrics
    • Spare Part Metrics
  • Throughput Analysis
    • Throughput
    • Block Excess Capacity
    • Block Backlog and Backlog Processed

  • Maintenance Phases
  • Node and Stop Blocks
  • Varying Throughput
  • Subdiagrams

  • Discrete
  • Continuous

  • Allocation Analysis
  • Optimum Replacement
  • FRED Reports
  • Overlay Plots (aka Multi-Plots)
  • Synthesis Workbooks (spreadsheet and word processing modules combined)

  • Publish models based on diagram analyses and create metrics to track and display KPIs
  • Use models created from analyses performed in other Synthesis applications
  • Build RBDs or fault trees from data in Xfmea/RCM++/RBI or Lambda Predict
  • Use BlockSim diagrams to simulate response data for DOE++
  • Use BlockSim diagram results in RENO flowcharts

Integration into the Synthesis Platform

  • Standard Repository
  • ReliaSoft Synthesis File (emulates the standalone file saving behavior from prior versions)
  • Microsoft SQL Server® or Oracle®
  • Shared analysis settings and data
  • Automatic backups

  • Single-user, multi-user and enterprise deployments
  • Flexible user access levels
  • Check projects in/out

  • Facilitate effective collaboration
  • Leverage overlap of reliability activities
  • Encapsulate reusable information
  • Create/share statistical models and metrics (KPIs) based on analysis results
  • Update multiple analyses simultaneously

  • Integrated Project Planner
  • Create/track action items
  • Send/receive messages within the software
  • Create automated e-mail notifications
  • Actions Explorer (filter and sort all actions in the project)

  • Project Categories, Item Categories and Synthesis Identifiers
  • Synthesis Explorer (filter, sort and create dashboards based on all analyses in the database)
  • Locked/Private Projects
  • Restore Points and History Log
  • Links and Attachments

  • Share key analysis information using any web-enabled device
  • Track, manage and update progress

  • Transfer data and analyses between systems