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RCM++ 8 Software Features

ReliaSoft's RCM++ facilitates the Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analysis approach for creating effective scheduled maintenance plans. The software provides predefined profiles for the major RCM reporting standards (such as ATA MSG-3 and SAE JA1011/1012) and allows you to configure the interface and print-ready reports to meet your specific needs. The software's flexibility allows you to implement either a "streamlined" or "rigorous" RCM approach, or a combination of both. RCM++ also provides full-featured capabilities for FMEAs and related analyses.

Multi-User Access and Intelligent Integration

RCM++ analyses are stored in a centralized database that supports simultaneous access by multiple users and shares relevant information between Synthesis-enabled software tools. This enables you to build and manage a valuable, keyword-searchable knowledge base of product reliability information and lessons learned that can be shared throughout your organization. For enterprise-level repositories, both Microsoft SQL Server® and Oracle® are supported.

Easy to Find and Reuse Existing Analysis Data or Phrases

The software provides an array of tools to help you find and reuse descriptions from any existing analysis and to select phrases from predefined templates or phrase libraries. You also can use fully customizable Excel® templates to quickly import system configurations and/or analysis data from external data sources.

Supports RCM Decision Logic Diagrams

RCM++ supports two configurable methods for determining which equipment will be analyzed with RCM techniques: Selection Questions (yes/no) and Criticality Factors (rating scales). The software also supports the Failure Effect Categorization (FEC) and Maintenance Task Selection logic charts from the major industry RCM standards and provides the ability to customize the questions and categories to meet specific application needs.

Compare Maintenance Strategies and Determine the Optimum Replacement Interval

When it comes to comparing maintenance strategies based on cost and availability or selecting the optimum replacement interval, RCM++ goes far beyond calculations based on MTBFs and the assumption of a constant failure rate. The software puts the "reliability" back into "reliability centered maintenance" by allowing you to choose from a variety of statistical distributions to describe the equipment's failure behavior and then apply built-in simulation/calculation engines to obtain useful metrics that will inform the decisions you need to make.

Flexible Reports, Queries, Charts and Diagrams

RCM++ provides a complete set of print-ready reports, flexible ad-hoc queries, charts and diagrams that allow you to present analysis information in the most effective ways to support decision-making.

Why Upgrade to Version 8?

RCM++ Version 8 offers a completely updated user interface and many useful new features. This includes:

• Integration into the Synthesis Platform, which allows multiple users throughout the organization to share analysis information between Weibull++, ALTA, BlockSim, Xfmea and/or RCM++.
• A new DFR Planner utility that helps you track progress on Design for Reliability activities.
• A new Failure Modes and Reliability Analysis (FMRA) that uses information from your FMEAs (or RCMs) as a starting point for other system reliability analyses (such as calculating the system's baseline reliability or using simulation to estimate maintenance costs and availability).
• The option to enter and display causes before effects in RCM analyses.

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