Author: jhynek

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

This years PSAM took place on the beautiful island of Oahu, Hawaii. Begrudgingly we packed our bags last week and headed to Hawaii. Although I might have been hoping for some sun and surf the conference was all business. The Probabilistic Safety Assessment & Management conference is a conference in risk, risk management, reliability, safety, and associated topics. Historically this conference has been attended primarily by the nuclear industry. This years PSAM was a mixture of several different industries, the nuclear industry making up about half the attendees.

The PSAM conference brings together experts from various industries. The multi-disciplinary conference is aimed to cross-fertilize methods, technologies and ideas for the benefit of all. PSAM meets internationally every two years. This years conference was in Hawaii, 2016 will be in Korea. http://psam12.org

This week Isograph attended the CIM (Canadian Institute of Mining)  conference in Vancouver, http://vancouver2014.cim.org/ which was a great event. As software authors we usually don't get the chance to take a close look at the machinery that is often modeled in our software. The CIM conference not only gave us this chance it seemed to have a bit of everything including: 12 foot tires, 14 ton trucks, UAV's, drills, software and many items specific to the mining industry. Its also the only conference I have been to that had its own fireworks show!

CIM is a very mature organization which was founded in 1898, the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) is the leading technical society of professionals in the Canadian Minerals, Metals, Materials and Energy Industries.  CIM has over 14,600 members, convened from industry, academia and government. With 10 Technical Societies and over 35 Branches, their members help shape, lead and connect Canada’s mining industry, both within Canadian borders and across the globe.  Canadian Institute of Mining - 2014