Author: jhynek

As many of you know we don't exactly get our of the office every week to offer public training courses. Please don't miss your opportunity to attended one of Isograph's training sessions to be held in Park City, Utah the week of June 27th, 2016. We will be offering training on Isograph's Reliability Workbench, FaultTree+ and Availability Workbench Software. In addition to the training in Park City will also be offering training in Houston this September, which will include our IEC 61508 training. For a complete list of dates please check our website: www.isograph.com .

The upcoming training in Park City offers an ideal location. Just 40 minutes from SLC international airport, Park City was home to the 2002 Winter Olympics and offers many lodging options and is well know for it outdoor/night-life activities. https://www.visitparkcity.com/ .

New this year we will begin to offer self paced web training. For more information please contact myself or Joe Belland: jbelland@isograph.com .
On a different note, for those Reliability Workbench users don't miss our "What's New" webinar this Wednesday at 12pm EST. In this Webinar we will go over the upgrades added to Reliability Workbench Version 13.

Please register here: Registration Click HERE
We appreciate your support of Isograph. If you have any general questions or comments please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,

Jeremy Hynek
Isograph, Inc.
Director North American Operations
801 610 0045
jhynek@isograph.com

For those of you that were not able to attend our webinar addressing Data Links, or did not register in time, your still in luck. A recording of this meeting can be viewed online.

We’re sure by now that many of you have seen the Microsoft Windows® 10 upgrade notification appear in the task bar prompting you to upgrade. If you wish to do so then we have a few steps that need to be taken to ensure the smooth transition of your license, this applies to a standalone license as well as a floating license.
Standalone:
If you don’t connect to a server to obtain your license then you have a standalone license, to return this license open your software and go to Tools->License Configuration click on the “Return” button

Select the license you wish to return, make a note of the activation ID as we will need this later and press the return button.

NB: This method will return the license via a web connection, if your IT policy restricts outbound connections then please use the file method to return the license.
Once you have upgraded Windows® 10, re-open your program and repeat the steps above, this time clicking Activate instead of return. Enter your activation ID and the number of copies you were issued and click the Activate Button.

NB: This method will activate the license via a web connection, if your IT policy restricts outbound connections then please use the file method to activate the license.

Floating Licenses
If you connect to a server to obtain your licence then you have a floating licence – please note this guide only applies if you are upgrading your server to Windows® 10, not your client.
On the server machine using either LMTOOLS or LMADMIN stop the Isograph service. Once stopped open the License Server Activation program, click on the return tab and select the license you wish to return

Make a note of the activation ID as we will need this later. Click the return button.
NB: This method will return the license via a web connection, if your IT policy restricts outbound connections then please use the file method to return the license.
Once your upgrade to Windows® 10 has been completed re-open the License Server Activation program and go to the “Activate Licenses” tab.

Enter the Activation ID noted earlier and the number of copies you were issued with. Click the Activate button to re-activate your license.
NB: This method will activate the license via a web connection, if your IT policy restricts outbound connections then please use the file method to activate the license.
You should now be able to use your license server with Windows® 10.
If you do have any issues feel free to get in touch with our support team via:
support@isograph.com or +44 (0) 1925437002 (Europe and Rest of the World), 801 610 0042 (USA)

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Next week we will be attending the Reliability 2.0 Conference in Las Vegas. Something interesting about Isograph is our hand-picked staff.  We have 4 PHDs to support Isograph's Software, Training and Programming efforts. This includes Dr. David Wiseman who will be presenting his paper titled: "Availability Analysis and Design Selection using Monte Carlo Simulation".  Below is a photo from his last presentation at IMC, what you cannot see in this photo is the people standing in the hall! So if you plan on attending this paper arrive early and bring your camping chair to ensure you get a seat.

For more information on this conference please visit the ReliabilityWeb conference website:

http://reliabilityconference.com/

As many of you requested I have posted the recording titled "Reporting on a Fault Tree Model" . In this webinar we showed a few of the many features available in the report designer.

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/6873753437059734017

One of the most important aspects of your reliability or safety studies is the creation of professional standard reports that will enable you to present the results in a clear and understandable form to colleagues, management, customers and regulatory bodies.

HOW CAN I USE THE REPORT DESIGNER?

The Isograph reliability software products share a common facility to produce reports containing text, graphs or diagrams. Your input data and output results from reliability applications are stored in a database. This information can be examined, filtered, sorted and displayed by the Report Designer. The Report Designer allows you to use reports supplied by Isograph to print or print preview the data. A set of report format appropriate to the product is supplied with each product.

You can also design your own reports, either from an empty report page or by copying one of the supplied reports and using that as the starting point.

Reports may published or exported to PDF and Word formats.

As always please feel free to contact me if you have any questions: jhynek@isograph.com .

Thank you to everyone that attended our last meeting "building a Fault Tree from a schematic". I realize that there were many that were not able to attend the meeting. The warning that there are limited seats held true and the meeting did fill up leaving many of you to wonder what the proper logic was to modeling the schematic posted.

Not to worry, the meeting was recorded and can be accessed from the following link:

Since everyone in the meeting was muted watching the recording is almost as good as being there.

However, don't miss the chance to watch this weeks meeting live where we will be showing how to create various reports on the model we built last week. The same goes this week... please sign up to save a place in the meeting.

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8450527877752487681

As always please contact me with any questions.

Best Regards, Jeremy

Jhynek@isograph.com

When modeling (or modelling for those of you in the UK) your system in a Fault Tree or Reliability Block Diagram do you ever wonder if your logic is covering all possible failures or properly accounting for redundancy in your system?

Try your hand at modelling the included schematic in a Fault Tree or Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) then join us on a Webniar, Friday at 10am PST, to see if your model matches up with the model one of our support experts comes up with. If you do not have access Fault Tree Analysis or RBD software please let me know and I will lend you software to use during this meeting.

The safety system is designed to operate as follows: should a runaway reaction begin, the temperature sensor (TS1) and pressure sensor (PS1) will detect the increase in temperature and pressure and start the safe shutdown process. The provision of two sensors is for redundancy; only a single sensor needs to register the unsafe reactor conditions to engage the safety system. Should either TS1 or PS1 detect a runaway reaction, two things will occur: 1) a signal will be sent to the controller (CON), which will close the electric valves in each reactor input (EV1 and EV2), and 2) the alarm (ALARM) will sound, signaling the operator (OP) to close the manual valve in each reactor input (MV1 and MV2). In order to stop the runaway reaction, BOTH inputs must be shut down. However, only one valve on each input needs to be shut. So only MV1 or EV1 must be shut to stop input 1, but at least one valve on input 1 and at least one valve on input 2 must close to stop the inputs to the runaway reaction. Note that EV1 and EV2 (and only these components) are powered by the electrical grid; all other components have independent battery backups or power supplies.

Registration URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7009501341095130369

Just in time for Thanksgiving we have announced our upcoming release of NAP 2. The development is in prototype stage so there is still opportunities to provide feedback prior to the final release.  If you have any questions about NAP or would like to a closer look at some of the new features please let me know.

Overview NAP2

Whats New NAP2

Best Regards, Jeremy

jhynek@isograph.com

949 502 5689

On August 4-8  Isograph sponsored the International Systems Safety Conference in St. Louis. This conference was the 32nd International System Safety Training Symposium. We enjoyed a great training symposium that focused on topics related to system safety discipline. Although any industry could benefit from this conference it seems to be engineers primarily from the aerospace industry attending this conference. Engineers take the time to exchange ideas, knowledge, experiences and best practices which gives the opportunity to learn from each other and share safety processes, methods, and techniques that advance the goals and objectives of the system safety profession. Isograph has now been supporting the Systems Safety Conference for almost 2 decades. To learn more about the Systems Safety Conference please go to their website: http://www.system-safety.org