ASENT
The ASENT toolkit provides leading-edge reliability and maintainability computer-aided engineering solutions.
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Additional Product Information
The ASENT toolkit provides leading-edge reliability and maintainability
computer-aided engineering solutions.
ASENT is a comprehensive modular set of software tools that enables you to manage design tasks with ease. ASENT's tools, which are fully described in the ASENT Brochure allow engineers to turn data into useful, design-impacting information. ASENT stores all the analysis, performance, and manufacturing data for your entire company, and makes it available for use with any ASENT tool. And because you enter data once, but reuse it many times, ASENT provides a significant productivity boost for your company.
As a true 32-bit application, ASENT handles large amounts of data with blazing speed. It can be installed on individual computers, or hosted on a server for network use across an entire enterprise. In the network environment, ASENT allows multiple users in geographically dispersed locations to concurrently access your company's entire R&M data.
ASENT modular toolkit structure allows you to select only the modules that best meet your requirement. These include the Board Analysis Manager which leverages the pioneering work in physics of failure-based analysis. For added value, we also offer combination packages and volume discount. The modules include:
Reliability Manager
FMECA Manager
Board Analysis Manager
Maintainability Manager
Parts Library
Data Interfaces Utilities
ASENT works with Microsoft ® SQL Server ® WindowsNT ® and Windows 98 to provide a familiar graphical user interface, and will export reports in a variety of formats, including Microsoft Word ® Microsoft Excel ® and HTML. For added flexibility, ASENT has an open architecture and uses standard formats, which enable users to easily access data with external tools for generating custom applications or reports.
Interconnected
ASENT supports collaboration through an extensive set of interfaces to software toolkits for other disciplines. Examples include the SLATE ®and DOORS ®systems engineering tools, interfaces to all major CAD packages, and the EAGLE ® SLIC ®and OMEGA ®logistics tools. ASENT's interfaces provide automated data flow between tools to improve communication and productivity in a highly dynamic design environment. This enables analyses to be performed in parallel, significantly reducing design cycle time.
With ASENT, the emphasis is on data sharing across tools to provide a significant productivity lift. It interfaces with LOGAN Fault & Event Tree Analysis Tool, RAC's PRISM ®and RAPTOR tools for reliability analysis. ASENT also interfaces with Giordano's Diagnostician, enabling automated database population to significantly reduce the need for user-entered data. ASENT's reporting and interface capabilities make the results from these tools readily available to other engineering disciplines. A product tree can be imported from an existing LSAR and easily passed to PRISM to perform a reliability prediction. These results are then available in ASENT's FMECA and Maintainability tools.
In addition, ASENT works with Raytheon's EAGLE and AIMSS software products to provide a suite of tools that perform product supportability analysis and documentation throughout a product's lifespan.
Information Reuse
While other tools support data reuse by allowing the user to copy an existing project file, quickly finding the right file can often be a problem, especially when the data owner is not available: in a meeting, on vacation or a business trip, etc. ASENT, in its network configuration, solves that problem. ASENT can leverage a company's network to quickly connect with other ASENT servers anywhere in the world. Once connected, wildcard searches can easily be performed in parallel across all projects on a server - a decided advantage over the "hit or miss" serial searches provided by other tools. The customer can download the data of interest and incorporate it into a project or product.
Through its extensive set of interfaces to other tools, ASENT allows access to legacy data from separate databases, such as LSARs, to rapidly build the basis for Reliability, FMECA, Maintainability and Testability analyses and manage the data within ASENT as shared data. Unlike other tools, ASENT does not burden the network, allowing Microsoft's ®powerful SQL Server ®engine to perform all the data intensive manipulation on the server, returning only the results.
It is estimated that up to 70% of the analysis effort is devoted to data acquisition and re entering data into analysis tools. ASENT's wide range of interfaces coupled with its ability to provide an enterprise solution significantly reduces the effort required to perform these tasks.
Reliability Manager (Failure Rate Predictions and Reliability Block Diagrams)
ASENT's Reliability Manager is the cornerstone of the entire R&M CAE suite. Embedded within this toolkit are some key usability features such as the Replicate Function. The Replicate Function
leverages ASENT's SQL technology to provide you with the ability to establish information relationships in the form of a Master Template and Replicated Nodes. This allows you to establish dynamic links between multiple instances of the same board. After making a change at the master node, you can then push the data to all of the replicated nodes. This feature can save time when updating heavily reused designs! Failure Rate Status flags are displayed next to each item in your system after failure rates have been calculated. These flags quickly alert a user to any potential problems.
Build product tree structures
Import board data part lists
Edit part lists
Import subtree from existing analysis
Perform Mil-Hdbk-217, F, FN1, FN2, Bellcore Issue 6, or mixed failure rate calculations
Replicate function
Invoke Board Manager
Generate reports including:
Derating problem
Op tree failure rate
Failure rate survey
Stress ratio/junction temp
Stress analysis worksheet
User-defined
RBD Analysis
Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) Analysis
ASENT RBD Analysis tool allows you to model your system,
representing the probability of mission success as a function of time, discrete events (firings, launches, etc.) or both. The tool supports elements modelled in series, parallel, series-parallel combinations, and complex active or standby redundancies. Tradeoffs can be quickly performed to identify a system critical functions and reliability choke points.
The resulting diagrams can be viewed on-screen or output in a variety of report formats. Armed with this information, you have an early opportunity to impact your system design.
ASENT interface to RAPTOR+ reliability modelling tool provides both product tree information and failure rates. This provides a significant productivity lift for RAPTOR users.
FMECA Manager ( FMECA, RCM, and Testability Analysis )
ASENT Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) toolkit reflects a newer methodology that combines the requirements of reliability and testability under one umbrella. The result is an extensible toolkit that leverages common information to help facilitate the analysis needs of several key members of the Integrated Product Team. This approach is even more beneficial to the smaller organization, where often one engineer must wear multiple hats. Again, having maximum reuse of shared data within the same toolkit greatly expands the engineer analysis domain.
ASENT FMECA toolkit supports functional, hardware, or combined FMECAs. Our methodology allows you to perform top-down or bottomup FMECAs. Assemblies, parts, and signals can be modeled, along with the related failure modes and effects. The relationship between failure modes and effects and the tree structure are tracked automatically by the toolkit so that updates can easily be made at any time. After the updates have been completed, failure mode ratios and criticality numbers can be
recalculated and new reports generated with the simple tap of a key. Since the FMECA process can be quite a documentation effort, ASENT뭩 Completeness Checker helps to assess your FMECA status at a moment뭩 notice and identify any missing links뻕nother great time saver!
Product Tree Editor
Mil-Std-1629A FMEA/FMECA
Library Manager
Part/Signal List Editor
Failure Mode/Effects Editor
Roll Up Failure Mode Ratios
Calculate Criticality
Completeness Checker
Testability Data Editor
Calculate FD/FI
RCM Analysis
RCM Analysis
ASENT Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) tool automates the analysis process laid out in both Mil-Std-2173(AS) and UK MoD MSG-3. The built-in logic tree guides the user through a series of questions to determine whether an item is a Structurally Significant Item (SSI), Functionally Significant Item (FSI), or a Non-Critical Item (NCI). The analysis leverages off of existing FMECA data. Based on user responses, a preventive maintenance analysis is done to determine if there is some type of task that will reduce or prevent the consequences of a failure.
Testability Analysis
The testability portion of the FMECA tool allows the user to leverage FMECA data and enter detection/isolation information for select failure modes. This feature can define detection/isolation groups and create and maintain a user-friendly test code library. The tool will calculate fault detection and fault isolation and generate reports that quickly verify whether the current test coverage is sufficient to meet customer requirements.