Integrated Support for FMEAs and Related Analyses
RCM++ provides a complete set of features for FMEA and related analyses, which can be used independently or integrated with any RCM analysis. For example, you may wish to use RCM for some equipment and FMEA for other equipment, depending on the assessed criticality. Alternatively, you may wish to incorporate the Risk Priority Number (RPN) method as an additional risk assessment tool in some of your RCM analyses.
Risk Priority Numbers or Criticality Analysis
Risk Priority Numbers (RPNs) are calculated automatically based on your selections from fully configurable rating scales. RCM++ also supports related metrics, including SxO (Severity x Occurrence), SOD (Severity, Occurrence, Detection) and SD (Severity, Detection).
The Priority Highlights feature allows you to highlight issues in the interface and report/query output based on specified criteria.
RCM++ continues to provide full support for both quantitative and qualitative Criticality Analysis patterned after MIL-STD-1629A.
Tracking the Completion of Recommended Actions
One of the most costly mistakes among FMEA practitioners is the failure to properly follow up and track the completion of recommended actions. RCM++ provides multiple features to make sure that your organization implements necessary improvements to reduce the risk in the product/process design. This includes targeted reports, charts and the ability to send automated notifications via e-mail.
Support for Related Analyses
RCM++ also provides configurable utilities for:
- Design Verification Plans and Reports (DVP&Rs)
- Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs)
- Process Control Plans (PCPs)
- Design Reviews Based on Failure Mode (DRBFMs)
Integration with Other ReliaSoft Software
Whenever integration might be useful, RCM++ facilitates communication with other ReliaSoft software. In addition to the Weibull++®, ALTA® and BlockSim® integrations described elsewhere, RCM++ is fully integrated with ReliaSoft's Xfmea® (any database that you create with Xfmea can be opened with RCM++ and vice versa) and also offers the following capabilities:
- RCM++ can import from and export to ReliaSoft's Web-based XFRACAS® failure reporting, analysis and corrective action system. You can use the FRACAS data to identify failure modes and determine the frequency with which particular problems have occurred in the field.
- RCM++ provides integration with the FMEA template collections that are available through ReliaSoft's FMEA Accelerator®. Used properly, these "generic analyses" can speed up and improve the quality of your FMEAs and RCM analyses. For example, the MRG Physical Asset FMEA Template Collection offers over 260 templates for components such as blowers, boilers, conveyors, pumps, tanks and valves. Additional collections are planned for the future.
