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Flexible Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) Creation
The Most Intuitive, Flexible and Polished Interface in the Industry

BlockSim’s interface for Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) creation is the most intuitive, flexible and graphically rich in the industry, with full support for all types of RBD configuration.

Block Diagram Configuration Options
Simple drag-and-drop techniques allow you to build a reliability block diagram (RBD) for the simplest to the most complex systems. The software supports the following reliability-wise configuration types, used individually or in complex combinations. [View Complex System Example]

• Simple Series and Parallel [View RBD Example]

• Complex: Complex configurations require a more advanced analytical treatment than a simple combination of series and parallel configurations and may be required for network system, failure modes and other analyses. [View RBD Example]

• k-out-of-n: Node blocks can be used to define k-out-of-n redundancy, where k out of n paths leading to the node must succeed in order for the system to continue to operate. [View RBD Example]

• Standby: Correct analysis of standby configurations requires the consideration of the component's life distributions while in active and standby modes, as well as the probability of switching from standby to active when needed. [View RBD Example]

• Load Sharing: For load sharing configurations, BlockSim provides life-stress models combined with life distributions (derived from the ALTA software) to quantify the effect of the increased load on the operating components when other load sharing components fail. [View RBD Example]

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Comprehensive Block Properties
You can fully define the properties for every block in your diagram (RBD), including reliability, maintenance, optimization, throughput and other characteristics. All of the distributions supported by Weibull++, ReliaSoft's powerful life data analysis software, are now available in BlockSim 7 to define any probabilistic value (such as reliability or maintenance duration) for a component. In addition to the Weibull, mixed Weibull, exponential, lognormal, normal, this now includes the generalized gamma, gamma, logistic, loglogistic and Gumbel distributions.

Special Tools to Save Time and Space in Each RBD
BlockSim also incorporates useful innovations to save time and space in your reliability block diagram (RBD): Subdiagram, Multi and Mirrored blocks.

• Subdiagram blocks can be used to link diagrams as components in other diagrams. This allows you to analyze extremely complex systems with subsystems, subsubsystems and beyond. The software provides unlimited levels of encapsulation. [View RBD Example]

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• Multi blocks can be used to represent more than one component, configured in series or in parallel, with a single block in the RBD. These blocks allow you to save time and space when creating the diagram. [View RBD Example]

• Mirrored blocks can be used to represent the same component in more than one location within the diagram. This can be useful to simulate bi-directional paths within the RBD. [View RBD Example]

Phase Diagrams New in Version 7!
You can use BlockSim’s intuitive new Phase Diagram Sheets to model systems that go through different phases during the course of their operation. For example, some aircraft components (such as landing gear) operate only during the take-off and landing phases of a mission and others (such as engines) experience a higher failure rate during these phases due to higher stress. Likewise, a manufacturing plant’s production may differ during the day shift and the night shift. To model this type of situation in BlockSim 7, simply create an RBD to describe the system’s operation during each phase and use the new Phase Diagram to describe how the system proceeds through the phases over time.

Exclusively in BlockSim, the Phase Diagram Sheets allow you completely change the system configuration and component properties from one phase to another. In addition, you have the option to define Maintenance Phases to model scenarios in which a system goes into maintenance after completing a specific sequence of phases or skips remaining phases and goes directly to maintenance if a failure occurs. For example, if a failure occurs on an aircraft during taxiing, it may go directly to maintenance and then start from the beginning of the sequence after the repair (rather than from the point of failure as with traditional RBD analysis. This flexibility provides a tremendous leap forward in the ability to simulate more realistic situations.

Intuitive User Interface Saves Time and Ensures Consistency
You can use the BlockSim software's intuitive Project Explorer to manage all of the diagrams, plots, templates, custom analysis spreadsheets and other resources related to your analysis. You can even attach other files of any type to your BlockSim analysis, such as Weibull++ folios, ALTA folios or Excel spreadsheets.

Templates allow you to create sets of pre-defined pattern blocks that you can easily drag and drop into any diagram. Base Projects provide a quick and easy way to re-use existing templates and other resources in a new project. BlockSim also allows you to import/export diagrams, templates, spreadsheets and other items among projects.

The new Resource Usage window provides an at-a-glance view of the diagrams and blocks where specific resources (e.g. maintenance policies, spare parts policies, etc.) are used within a project. This provides a quick summary of the project’s defined resources in either a list or tree view and also allows you to delete unused resources with a single click. New in Version 7!

Resource Usage Window

Attractive, Customizable Graphical Display
You can fully customize the colors, shapes, sizes, fonts and other graphical properties of each reliability block diagram (RBD) that you create with BlockSim. You can print these sophisticated and attractive diagrams directly from the software or export/copy the diagram as an enhanced metafile graphic that can be used in other reports and presentations.

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Suporta todos os tipos de configuração de RBD...

- Séries
- Paralelo Simples
- Complexo
- k-de-n
- Standby 
- Load Sharing 

Configurações em Standby com confiabilidade de interrupção.

Configurações em Load sharing, com modelos de stress-vida para analisar os efeitos do aumento de carga.

Use um subdiagrama para ligar a um diagrama assim como um compente a um RDB.

Exposição gráfica completa e customizada com possibilidade de exportar os gráficos dos diagramas de blocos de confiabilidade.