DMD Solutions launches new RAMS software suite to enhance certification processes in aerospace industry

DMD Solu­tions has released its Robin Reli­a­bil­i­ty, Avail­abil­i­ty, Main­tain­abil­i­ty and Safe­ty (RAMS) soft­ware tool, which it says will enhance the effi­cien­cy of cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process­es in the aero­space indus­try.

Robin 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).

With the aid of Robin, com­pa­nies which build, oper­ate or main­tain air­borne sys­tems will be able to track mal­func­tion data and extract reli­a­bil­i­ty insights, cal­cu­late prob­a­bil­i­ty of fail­ure and analyse fail­ure effects, and plan main­te­nance tasks to opti­mise oper­a­tions.

In a press release, the com­pa­ny said: “The reli­a­bil­i­ty, avail­abil­i­ty, main­tain­abil­i­ty and safe­ty of aero­space sys­tems have always been of para­mount impor­tance to the sec­tor and yet, until now, all soft­ware tools aimed at sup­port­ing RAMS engi­neer­ing analy­ses have been catch-all prod­ucts for indus­tries as diverse as ener­gy, chem­i­cal, health and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal.”

Com­ment­ing on how Robin RAMS was born, Dario Di Mar­ti­no, CEO and Founder of DMD Solu­tions, said: “After 10 years work­ing in the field, I tried every avail­able soft­ware but noth­ing respond­ed to the actu­al needs of aero­space com­pa­nies. There are a few plat­forms with thou­sands of fea­tures aimed at dif­fer­ent indus­tries and bulky licens­ing process­es.

“But why pur­chase an expen­sive licence where half of the func­tion­al­i­ties remained unused? This might not be a stopped for big com­pa­nies, but what hap­pens with medi­um-sized com­pa­nies, such as train­er air­craft inte­gra­tors, busi­ness jets, light heli­copters, drones or urban air mobil­i­ty vehi­cles?”

DMD Solu­tions says its devel­op­ment team have been work­ing on build­ing a web appli­ca­tion that is ‘mod­ern, flex­i­ble and suit­ed to the dai­ly work of OEMs and inte­gra­tors which need to obtain Type Cer­tifi­cate or prove the safe­ty of their prod­uct to sup­pli­ers and qual­i­ty boards’.

Cus­tomers which have already been enjoy­ing the ben­e­fit of Robin RAMS include air­craft man­u­fac­tur­er Daher Soca­ta, drone builder UMS Skel­dar, Civ­i­tanavi Sys­tems and FIMAC.

David Duran, Lead Devel­op­er at DMD Solu­tions, added: “We start­ed build­ing the plat­form we would have want­ed, with the user expe­ri­ence of the engi­neer always in our minds: clean inter­faces, pre­cise doc­u­men­ta­tion and fast cal­cu­la­tion times.

“While imple­ment­ing FRACAS for our cus­tomers, we saw how tra­di­tion­al data­bas­es failed to pro­vide the solid­i­ty and team inte­gra­tion need­ed to man­age fleets. For Fault Tree Analy­sis, we have devel­oped a cal­cu­la­tion algo­rithm that allows both Min­i­mal Cut Sets and Direct Eval­u­a­tion meth­ods with faster meth­ods with faster results than any oth­er in the mar­ket.”

DMD Solu­tions is an engi­neer­ing com­pa­ny locat­ed in Barcelona, Spain, and Luzern, Switzer­land. It’s team of aero­space engi­neers caters for the needs of the aero­space indus­try in the RAMS fields, pro­vid­ing con­sul­tan­cy ser­vices both remote­ly and on-site.