System Reliability, Maintainability and Availability Results via Simulation
You can use BlockSim’s powerful discrete event simulation engine to obtain results for a wide variety of system analysis purposes including:
- System Reliability Analysis
- Identification of Critical Components
- System Maintainability Analysis (Determine Optimum Preventive Maintenance Intervals, etc.)
- System Availability Analysis (Calculate Uptime, Downtime, Availability, etc.)
- Throughput Calculation (Identify Bottlenecks, Estimate Production Capacity, etc.)
- Resource Allocation for Maintenance Planning
- Life Cycle Cost Analysis
Simulation results are generated per system and/or per block (as appropriate) and "Point Results" are also available to provide a more detailed picture of the system’s operation at specified intervals across the total simulation time. This extensive collection of valuable system information is presented in flexible spreadsheets that support on-the-fly calculations and copy/paste. To enable further analysis and reporting, it’s easy to export the data to a BlockSim Spreadsheet (maintained independently within the same project file), ReliaSoft’s Weibull++ and/or Microsoft Excel®. The Simulation QCP and Simulation Plot Sheet also provide access to a wide variety of metrics and plots. Some of the available results include:
- Uptime, Downtime, Mean Time to First Failure (MTTFF), Availability, Reliability
- Failure Criticality Index, Downing Event Criticality Index
- Quantities of CMs (failures), PMs and Inspections
- Summaries for Maintenance Crews, Spare Parts and Costs
- Throughput Summaries
- And much more!
Configure and Annotate Plot Graphics
BlockSim 7's Plot Setup gives you full control over the appearance of the plots you create. You can set the colors, fonts, titles and other chart properties to meet your specific display preferences. In addition, the RS Draw graphics editor is integrated with BlockSim's plotting utility, which allows you to annotate and customize any of the plots that you generate to illustrate your analysis.
