Windchill Quality Solutions (formerly Relex)
Fully Integrated Reliability Management Solutions
Product reliability and safety are not only vital to the success of every company, but are now the benchmarks for consumer confidence. What’s more, in a wide range of industries, reliability and safety are now mandated, as manufacturers are being held to strict standards for product performance and risk mitigation both by global government regulations, as well as customer contract requirements.
With Relex reliability solutions from PTC, you can define reliability targets early in your design process, then measure product performance against these targets throughout development and testing, and later use field performance data to improve next-generation products. With Relex Software, you have the tools to produce safer, more reliable products, without sacrificing innovation, because you’re working with a fully integrated, easy-to-use reliability management solution that streamlines reliability analysis across the enterprise.
Features & Benefits
- Gain early insight into safety and performance metrics for reliability and quality planning
- Achieve safety and performance targets throughout the life of the product
- Analyze risks and implement risk control measures to ensure maximum product safety
- Calculate cost metrics, including Cost of Poor Quality, to maximize revenue and profits
- Leverage closed loop field performance feedback to improve next-generation products
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Manage corrective action processes to improve product reliability
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When errors or incidents within a product or system occur, organizations need a clear, systematic way to address the incident, develop and manage a plan of action to correct it, and ensure that these processes have a positive effect on future performance.
Relex FRACAS (Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System) manages the large amounts of data required by enterprise-wide corrective action systems, using flexible workflow resources and powerful reliability analytics. With organization-wide implementation capabilities, Relex FRACAS helps to standardize business processes globally, while its secure, Web-based tools ensure the accessibility and integrity of data.
Features & Benefits
- Collect, quantify and control large amounts of incident reports to easily spot trends
- Measure system performance, prioritize issues, and track improvements made to the system
- Available zero-client, Web-based interface supports multiple users anywhere, at any time
- Available enterprise-class features ensure the security of your data
- Integrated online dashboard, available at the enterprise level, facilitates management review of system metrics
- Send workflow notifications and alerts directly to email for business process control
Perform reliability analyses using globally accepted standards
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To ensure a positive customer experience, it is necessary to quantify whether product performance, under anticipated conditions, will match the goals established for it by industry standards or organizational objectives.
Relex Reliability Prediction helps you ensure product compliance by providing a full range of globally accepted prediction models to serve as a framework for your reliability prediction analyses. With its extensive parts libraries, easy-to-use interface, and powerful analytical tools, Relex Reliability Prediction can help you assess product reliability early in the design process, identify contributors to system failure, and measure the impact of environment and stress on your system.
Features & Benefits
- Estimate system reliability, MTBF, failure rate, and much more
- Supports globally accepted standards, including MIL-HDBK-217, Telcordia SR-332, IEC TR 62380, 217Plus, and more
- Combine models within a single analysis for more comprehensive results
- Account for operating conditions such as temperature, environment, mission time, and more
- Leverage extensive parts libraries and add to user-created libraries
- Interface features include easy import tools, powerful filtering and search tools, and customizable fields
Assess risk and reliability using powerful visualization and analysis tools
In applications where reliability and safety are paramount, it is necessary to identify all factors contributing to critical safety issues and failures in a product or system.
By helping you construct a graphical representation of the critical issue and its contributing events, Relex Fault Tree provides the analysis tools required to help mitigate its occurrence or impact. The powerful analytical capabilities of Relex Fault Tree quantify system risk and reliability, helping you make targeted decisions about design, maintenance, and controls to reduce the probability of failures.
Features & Benefits
- Account for many contributing factors, including hardware/ software, human, and environmental causes
- Event-oriented analysis techniques support a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies
- Identify contributing event(s) having the greatest impact on system performance, using powerful statistical tools
- Intuitive graphical diagramming tools are easy-to-use and enforce correct fault tree logic
- Save fault tree events or styles to a searchable library for future use
- Output key system metrics, including unreliability, unavailability, frequency and number of failures, and more
Analyze potential failures and minimize their effects
To achieve high-quality designs, processes, and services that meet or exceed industry standards, it is crucial to identify all potential failures throughout a system and work to minimize or prevent their occurrence or effects.
Relex FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) enables you to quickly, easily, and consistently identify the potential failure modes of a system and work to prevent or mitigate them. Supporting a wide range of industry standards, Relex FMEA helps you identify and categorize failures and to develop, organize, and implement a plan to address them.
Features & Benefits
- Track the compliance of parts and products against a wide range of industry standards
- Supports commonly used standards, including MIL-STD-1629A, IEC 61508, SAE ARP5580, AIAG, and more
- Available zero-client, Web-based interface supports multiple users anywhere, at any time
- Available enterprise-class features ensure the security of your data
- Integrated online dashboard, available at the enterprise level, facilitates management review of system metrics
- Send workflow notifications and alerts directly to email for business process control
Analyze reliability, availability and cost using advanced system modeling
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When systems are designed with complex, interdependent component relationships, you need more than basic series modeling tools to calculate their reliability, availability and cost metrics.
Relex OpSim provides reliability block diagram and phase diagram tools, together with powerful optimization and simulation techniques, that are necessary for advanced system modeling and analysis. The software’s intuitive graphical tools and wide selection of maintenance-related calculations let you model complex system configurations, determine optimal values for spares, and calculate preventive maintenance and inspection intervals while accounting for multiple facets of component maintenance.
Features & Benefits
- Calculate system metrics, including Failure Rate, MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), MTTF (Mean Time to Failure), Reliability and Availability
- Model your complete operational profile using phase modeling
- Specify a calculation goal, such as minimize costs, maximize reliability, or maximize capacity
- Assign costs to various capacity levels
- Simulation log visually represents failures over time as each simulation is performed
- Analyze your diagram to determine the best approach: analytical solutions, simulations, or both
Analyze Field Data throughout All Stages of Product Life
To accurately predict competitive performance over the course of a product’s life, it is essential to gather and analyze a wide range of life data from diverse sources, including design and development, testing, field studies, and customer returns.
Relex Weibull provides the life data analysis tools necessary to predict failure behavior from field data gathered from all phases of a product’s life. Additional features help you track reliability growth, analyze product degradation, plan product testing procedures, calculate optimal maintenance periods, and perform warranty forecasting—all in one, powerful statistical package.
Features & Benefits
- Effective for all types of products, including mechanical, chemical, electronic, material, and human failures
- Supports numerous data-gathering methodologies, including inspection, interval, exact times, and suspensions
- Supports reliability growth methodologies to measure product improvement during the design phase
- Supports degradation analysis to estimate failure times by tracking part decline
- Perform warranty forecasting using sales and returns data
- Features intuitive interface tools, plus a comprehensive selection of plots and graphs
Model and analyze complex systems using state transition diagrams
When systems are designed with a wide range of complexity, redundancy, interdependency, and sequence-dependent failures, their analysis needs exceed the scope of standard, series-based modeling tools.
Relex Markov provides the robust, state transition diagramming tools necessary to model these systems. The software’s easy, intuitive interface tools enable you to create graphical representations of complex system states, along with the connections between them. From each diagram, it is then possible to calculate system performance metrics, including capacity, reliability and availability for different states.
Features & Benefits
- Use state transition diagramming tools to represent many complex states and the transitions between them
- Model systems with the highest degree of complexity, including those with multiple complex mechanisms
- Account for switchover mechanisms, repair priorities, limited repair resources, and failure sequence dependency
- Consider associated costs in terms of currency, functionality, or throughput
- Supports a wide range of calculations, including MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), MTTF (Mean Time to Failure), and MTTR (Mean Time to Repair)
- Interactive graphical editing functionality allows easy updates to a model and quickly recalculates system metri
Analyze the lifetime cost of a product
The ability to accurately forecast total cost of ownership is a key concern in consumer as well as commercial sectors.
Relex Life Cycle Cost offers industry-standard cost breakdown analysis tools, along with a flexible equation editor supporting a range of variables and functions. By combining customizable cost breakdown structures with user-defined equations, Relex Life Cycle Cost provides a powerful, flexible tool to meet the cost analysis needs unique to your organization or industry.
Relex Life Cycle Cost lets you compare the cost impact of several alternatives side-by-side, calculate sensitivity and net present value, and forecast costs throughout the design, production, repair and disposal phases of the product’s life.
Features & Benefits
- Account for many different types of costs over the lifetime of a product
- Calculate costs, including total lifetime cost, overall system costs, and line-item costs
- Supports parametric, analogy, bottom-up, and direct cost analysis calculation types
- Perform sensitivity calculations and Net Present Value (NPV) calculations
- Perform design and development cost analyses for planning, concept design, and preliminary design costs
Predict repair times to meet system availability objectives
To manage costs and ensure reliability over the lifetime of any product, you need to have a complete picture of the maintenance and repair metrics. This information is also necessary to maximize system availability and maintain compliance with globally accepted standards for maintainability and reliability.
Using these standards as a framework, Relex Maintainability Prediction provides a systematic method to define system repair properties, together with powerful analytical capabilities, to calculate the amount of time required by maintenance and repair tasks. Now you can analyze the repair metrics of any system to predict repair times, minimize downtime, and increase availability.
Features & Benefits
- Provides an organized, functional framework based on MIL-HDBK-472, Procedures 2, 5A, and 5B
- Calculates maintenance parameters and supports Fault Detection and Isolation (FD&I) outputs
- Export data into an MIL-STD-1388-2B LSAR-compatible format
- Supplies a task library taken directly from the MIL-HDBK-472 standard on maintainability
- Supports user-defined library entries, with comprehensive search capabilities and drag-and-drop ease
- Enables the creation and definition of custom repair levels