RELIASOFT BLOCKSIM

Why Use ReliaSoft BlockSim?

• Assess system reliability and lower the failure rates
  Quickly build complex models to identify potential areas of poor reliability and where improvements can be made. Identify critical components (or failure modes).
• Make predictions and recognize the patterns
  Model the behavior of a system with Markov diagrams, and analyze partial or degraded working states.
• Obtain estimated performance metrics that can facilitate decision-making
  Applications include scheduling planned maintenance, planning for spares, identifying bottlenecks in production throughput and estimating life cycle costs.
• Find the most effective ways to improve system performance
  Design any configuration to analyze its reliability, maintainability, and availability using load sharing, standby redundancy, phases, and duty cycles to represent the system.

• Estimate production capacity and identify critical components
  Identify bottlenecks in production, optimize resource allocation, and improve the processing efficiency of any system with throughput analysis.
• Enhance your maintenance optimization and simulation modeling
  Model the reliability and maintainability of equipment and analyze multiple flow types within the system using process flow diagrams.
• Make crucial decisions easier with life cycle cost analysis
  Specify the direct and indirect costs associated with the maintenance strategies that you have defined, including costs related to downtime, maintenance crews, spares, etc.
• Model any configuration
  Analyze its reliability, maintainability and availability using load sharing, standby redundancy, phases and duty cycles to represent the system.

Capabilities

• Reliability Block Diagrams (RBDs)
  Easy drag-and-drop techniques allow you to build reliability block diagrams (RBDs) for the simplest to the most complex systems.
• Fault Tree Analysis
  Supports all of the traditional gates and event symbols that are applicable to system reliability and related analyses, with additional logic gates that represent load sharing and standby redundancy configurations.
• Markov Diagrams
  Model the behavior of a system in various states using a memoryless process, where the next state of the system is only dependent on the transition values and the current state of the system.
• Reliability Analysis via Analytical Diagrams
  Comprehensive system reliability metrics and plots.

• Optimum Reliability Allocation
  Dedicated tool to help you find the most effective reliability allocation to meet a system’s reliability goal.
• Availability Analysis via Simulation Diagrams
  Flexible and realistic capabilities for reliability, availability, maintainability and supportability analysis of repairable systems.
• Life Cycle Cost Estimation
  Specify both the direct and indirect costs associated with the maintenance strategies that you have defined, including costs related to downtime, maintenance crews and spares.
• Reliability Phase Diagrams (RPD)
  Model systems that go through different phases during the course of their operation.

• Throughput Analysis
  Identify bottlenecks, optimize resource allocation and improve the processing efficiency of the system
• “What-if” Scenario Simulation Using Variables
  Investigate the effect of one or more variables on the simulation results
• Multi-thread Support and Batch Model
  Improve performance and save time when simulating complex diagrams
• Plots and Reports
  Visualize your analysis results through comprehensive post-processing