DMD Solutions signs agreement with Quanterion Solutions and releases improved version of its Robin RAMS platform

DMD Solu­tions has penned a col­lab­o­ra­tion agree­ment with Quan­te­ri­on Solu­tions Incor­po­rat­ed to include its licensed reli­a­bil­i­ty pre­dic­tion data­bas­es into its inte­grat­ed Robin RAMS plat­form.

The com­pa­ny launched its Robin Reli­a­bil­i­ty, Avail­abil­i­ty, Main­tain­abil­i­ty and Safe­ty (RAMS) soft­ware tool last year, which pro­vides assis­tance in nav­i­gat­ing air­wor­thi­ness stan­dards and five cal­cu­la­tion mod­ules for the most chal­leng­ing analy­ses in the field: Fault Tree Analy­sis (FTA), Fail­ure Report­ing and Cor­rec­tive Actions Sys­tem (FRACAS), Reli­a­bil­i­ty Pre­dic­tion, Main­tain­abil­i­ty and Fail­ure Mode, Effects and Crit­i­cal­i­ty Analy­sis (FMECA).

The Robin Reli­a­bil­i­ty Pre­dic­tion Analy­sis mod­ule will now allow cal­cu­la­tions on NPRD-2016, EPRD-2014 and 217PlusTM, pro­vid­ing more accu­rate method­olo­gies for the esti­ma­tion of part fail­ure rates — account­ing for envi­ron­ments, qual­i­ty, and cycling effects on reli­a­bil­i­ty.

David Pérez, Lead Devel­op­er of the Robin RAMS sys­tem, said: “Robin can now sup­port engi­neer­ing teams work­ing in cer­ti­fi­ca­tion projects with greater flex­i­bil­i­ty and focus. It is pos­si­ble to com­ment on Fault Tree events and FMECA fail­ure effects, mak­ing coop­er­a­tion between sys­tem and safe­ty engi­neers eas­i­er than ever.

“Our agree­ment with Quan­te­ri­on now guar­an­tees that com­plex sys­tem man­u­fac­tur­ers can access all the parts reli­a­bil­i­ty data with­in the same inter­face, cov­er­ing mechan­i­cal and elec­tron­ic com­po­nents in one sin­gle and very com­pet­i­tive sub­scrip­tion plan.”

Addi­tion­al­ly, the RAMS plat­form has released an improved ver­sion, which offers advanced reli­a­bil­i­ty pre­dic­tions for aero­space com­po­nent man­u­fac­tur­ers.

New fea­tures include a har­monised fail­ure rate for the whole RAMS cycle, glob­al parts man­age­ment, cal­cu­la­tion inter­face for NPRD-2016, EPRD-2014 and 217PlusTM and world class FTA cal­cu­la­tion per­for­mance.

The lat­est ver­sion has now evolved RAMS into an insep­a­ra­ble Reli­a­bil­i­ty, Main­tain­abil­i­ty and Safe­ty soft­ware com­pan­ion for engi­neer­ing teams in air­craft inte­gra­tor OEMs, as well as Tier 1 sys­tems providers. DMD Solu­tions says it is now eas­i­er than ever to man­age a cer­ti­fi­ca­tion project, from ear­ly design to con­tin­ued air­wor­thi­ness.

The new fea­tures of Robin RAMS 1.2 release will be show­cased online in an Open Demo today (Thurs­day) at 4pm GMT, while Pérez will present the inno­v­a­tive imple­men­ta­tion of the Min­i­mal Cut sets and Direct Eval­u­a­tion cal­cu­la­tion meth­ods for Fault Tree Analy­sis at the QA&TEST Safe­ty and Secu­ri­ty Con­fer­ence on March 17th. .

Com­ment­ing on the addi­tion­al ben­e­fits of Robin RAMS, he added: “Reli­a­bil­i­ty and safe­ty teams can coop­er­ate seam­less­ly: fail­ure rate from FMEA can be fed from the cal­cu­la­tions in RPA. Users can eas­i­ly cre­ate an FMEA by select­ing assem­blies of an exist­ing RPA Bill of Mate­ri­als. Func­tion­al Blocks in FMEA can be linked to a FRACAS cal­cu­lat­ed MTBF. The basic events of FTA may be auto­mat­i­cal­ly cre­at­ed from the FMEA Fail­ure Modes.

“And the data entered for one part is synced with the rest of the mod­ule’s data in the glob­al parts man­age­ment. This adds com­fort for engi­neer­ing and clar­i­ty in the results pre­sen­ta­tion. On the whole, this will help com­pa­nies in aero­space tack­le the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion sprint­ing effort in an effi­cient and coor­di­nat­ed way.

“This is espe­cial­ly rel­e­vant for those air­borne sys­tems fac­ing inno­v­a­tive tech­no­log­i­cal chal­lenges like eVTOL con­cepts, since they will need lots of iter­a­tion in design to reach the required lev­el of safe­ty and reli­a­bil­i­ty assur­ance.”