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MADE Release Notes

What’s new in MADE

Explore the latest MADE updates, feature enhancements, service packs, API changes, reliability improvements, maintainability workflows, safety analysis upgrades and bug fixes.

3.9.1 Latest version
24 Release entries
10 PDF links
6+ Topic areas

(PDF of Release Notes 113kb)

MADE 3.9.0 release delivers an expansion of MADE's Fault Tree Analysis capabilities, equipping customers with a more powerful, flexible, and performance-optimised FTA environment. Alongside this, enhancements to Model-based RCM improve mission profile integration, audit traceability, and workflow reliability, while a new API version extends data exchange capabilities to support broader integration needs. Across the platform, targeted improvements to reliability block diagrams, together with a range of minor enhancements and bug fixes, address localisation, reporting accuracy, and workflow consistency across maintainability, safety, hazard, and criticality analyses, reflecting a continued commitment to analytical depth, usability, and confidence in results.

Key features include:

  • Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) Upgrades
  • Model-based RCM (MBRCM) Enhancements
  • API Enhancements - New Version v2.0.0
  • Reliability Block Diagram and Analysis Viewer Improvements
  • Minor Enhancements and Bug Fixes

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) Upgrades:

User Value: Delivers a more powerful, flexible, and performance-optimised FTA environment, giving Safety Engineers greater control over tree construction, gate logic, and analysis workflows for both simple and highly complex systems.

Custom FTA

User Value: Enables rapid, unconstrained fault tree construction directly within the FTA editor, with no model dependency required as a starting point.

  • Introduced the ability to begin from a blank top event, allowing fully custom fault trees to be built independently of any predefined model.
  • Enabled inline editing of event name, event ID/code, and item name directly on the editor canvas, eliminating unnecessary navigation interruptions.
  • Enhanced the Add button to create new blank events without scrolling away from the parent, supporting rapid multi-child entry without loss of context.
  • Redesigned context menus and toolbar to surface quick options for model-based events, custom events, common mode events, model-based trees, and transfer trees, alongside replace/clear and insert above/below controls for intuitive tree restructuring.
  • Implemented export and import capability for custom FTA events, supporting reuse and portability across projects.
  • Improved accessibility of the Custom Event Library (formerly "Add Custom Event") from the Fault Tree Builder.

Expanded FTA Gate Logic

User Value: Supports modelling of systems with complex failure behaviour with new gate types.

  • Introduced NOR, NAND, XOR, NOT, and Inhibit gates alongside the existing AND, OR, and K-of-N gates, broadening the range of failure logic that can be accurately represented.
  • All new gate types include p(f) evaluation, minimum cutset generation, cutset tree views, and full inclusion in reporting and export workflows ensuring no loss of analytical depth.
  • Updated the toolbar to prominently display the most frequently used gates, with less common gate types consolidated into a grouped toolbar to reduce visual clutter and improve workflow efficiency.
  • Updated context menu grouping for a more consistent and intuitive user experience.
  • Added a new project-level preference to enable or disable intermediate p(f) calculations, improving performance for large and complex trees.
  • Introduced configurable P(f) display format, allowing users to switch between scientific notation and decimal notation up to a configurable threshold, set per project.
  • Delivered significant performance improvements to P(f) calculations across all FTA analyses.

General FTA Enhancements

User Value: Improves navigation, traceability, and usability across all FTA workflows, including for large and complex trees.

FTA Folders and Categories

  • Enhanced the FTA landing page to support user-defined folders for grouping and organising analyses.
  • Introduced editable names, optional descriptions, created and modified timestamps, nested sub-categories, and drag-and-drop reordering for flexible FTA organisation.

Transfer Gate Enhancements

  • Enhanced the display of FTAs linked by Transfer In gates, now shown as hierarchical children in the FTA overview for improved traceability across tree structures.

Expand/Collapse Branches

  • Implemented expand and collapse branch controls to allow focused navigation of large trees.
  • Introduced an Expand All option to quickly restore a full tree view when needed.

Cutset View Improvements

  • Introduced dedicated cutset views, allowing users to display either a cutset-only tree with relevant events, or the full tree with highlighted branches that propagate failure to the top event.
  • Improved laggy search, sorting, and scrolling behaviour in the minimum cutset view for large cutset counts (e.g., ~10,000 cutsets), preventing application unresponsiveness.

Event Codes

  • Improved event code fields to support longer strings and special characters.

Additional Enhancements

  • Added the ability to select any intermediate event and generate a new, independent FTA with that event as the top event, copying all child events and gates into the new tree.
  • Enhanced the Event List search to support filtering by ID, logic, event type, item, and event name.
  • Improved the additional information panel to automatically resize based on the number of selected parameters displayed.

Model-based RCM (MBRCM) Enhancements

User Value: Improves mission profile integration, P-to-F task logic accuracy, audit traceability, and overall workflow reliability in MBRCM.

  • Introduced Mission Profile groups in MBRCM, displaying time profile graphs, duration, mission cycles, group cycles, phases, and conditions for all mission profiles within the group.
  • Improved Mission Profile changes to appear in MBRCM only after explicitly updating the analysis, preventing unintended mid-session disruptions.
  • Enhanced view in Functional Failure Analysis to collapse failure modes by default for cleaner navigation.
  • Incorporated mission cycles in maintainability metrics for more accurate maintainability calculations.
  • Enabled selected Preferences in RCM Summary to retain between sessions.
  • Improved audit logging and traceability by capturing all maintenance action edits.
  • Extended report to include technical feasibility assessments of the tasks.

API Enhancements

User Value: Extends data exchange capabilities and improves performance and usability for API-driven integrations. New API Version v2.0.0

  • Supports import, sync, and export of the Effectiveness Factor attribute.
  • Supports export of revised reliability and maintainability metrics.
  • Supports import, sync, and export of MTTF and failure rate values in accordance with GEIA-STD-0007C.
  • Supports import, sync and export of part features, characteristics, environments, synonym.
  • groupRatio in missionProfileGroups now correctly reports the percentage contribution of the profile.

Reliability Block Diagram and Analysis Viewer

User Value: Improves performance, scalability, and usability of reliability analysis for complex systems.

  • Improved performance for reliability calculations through better queue director handling.
  • Removed the 16-item limit on K/N Redundancy groups.
  • Improved progress monitor for reliability calculations requiring extended computation time.
  • Updated Standby Redundancy group messaging for better clarity.
  • Improved the UI in RBD analysis viewer for readability of the reliability and maintainability parameters.

Minor Enhancements and Bug Fixes

  • Improved project save performance having more than 500 items.
  • Added ability to multi-select items when importing from another MADE model.
  • Added a new Category column in Control Measures to group selected control measures under their respective categories, replacing the previous flat list and improving organisational clarity.
  • Resolved inability to create new user-defined Fuzzy Criticality Profiles.
  • Resolved failure to capture revised software control values when the initial value was zero.
  • Introduced maintenance action excel imports to support custom maintenance locations.
  • Corrected scenarios where maintenance tasks were not originating from the Task Evaluation decision tree.
  • Corrected localisation issues across MBRCM, Failure Rate Prediction, and System Information reports.
  • Resolved Diagnostic Analysis Sensor Set Excel exports not saving to the user-selected path.
  • Resolved missing units for duration of operation and baseline MTTR and MMT values in RBD report.
  • Resolved Basic Maintenance Actions not appearing in MIL-STD-1629A Maintainability Combined and FMECA Maintainability Information reports.

(PDF of Release Notes 83kb)

This hot fix addresses an issue identified in version v3.8.11 that impacts the save performance of MADE projects containing exceptionally large models. This modification significantly reduces the save time for such projects to a more acceptable duration. Additional optimizations in this area will be incorporated into the subsequent release.




(PDF of Release Notes 484kb)

This hotfix addresses an edge-case issue discovered in v3.8.10 to improve stability and data consistency.

General:

  • Fixed edge case which prevented MADE from opening due to environment library XML character errors.
  • Corrected minor display errors introduced by revised RAM metrics calculations.
  • Bond response simulation graph now displays as intended.

Syndrome Diagnostics:

  • Added apiVersion field in SD export JSON.
  • Corrected SD export bondType values (reverted to pre-3.8.10 capitalization format).
  • Modified SD export final wizard page to make MADE Version and Project File Name fields read-only.

(PDF of Release Notes 511kb)

This release advances RCM analysis by giving engineers clearer insight into failure pathways, streamlined workflows, and stronger alignment with industry taxonomies. Flexible data configuration, improved usability, and single-view reliability impact assessments work together to cut manual effort, improve traceability, and support more consistent, informed maintenance decisions. Additionally, new API versioning with legacy API support was implemented to ensure seamless integration for current users while enabling long-term adaptability.

Key Features include:

  • Failure Paths Metrics
  • Maintenance Actions Upgrades
  • Model-based RCM (MB-RCM)
  • Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) Upgrades
  • RBD and RBD Analysis Viewer
  • API and API Versioning

Failure Paths Metrics:

User Value: Gives engineers clearer visibility in failure mechanism pathways and the effectiveness of mitigating activities.

  • Added Failure Path Viewer to failure diagram which summarizes fault path reliability KPP’s
  • Added comparative metrics for reliability (base vs. revised) based on control measures (maintenance effectiveness factor)

Maintenance Actions Upgrades:

User Value: Improves consistency in maintenance development by aligning taxonomies to RCM methodologies.

  • Introduced user-definable maintenance terminologies aligned with selected RCM methodologies such as MSG3 and RCM II
  • User defined maintenance taxonomies displays consistently across Maintenance Actions editor, MBRCM, Backfit RCM, and reports
  • Maintenance taxonomy profile selection is now available at the project level
  • Updated MMT, Ai, and Ao calculations in the Maintenance Actions editor to use revised values instead of base

Model-based RCM (MB-RCM):

User Value: Streamlines RCM analysis setup and monitoring, reducing manual data entry and improving traceability.

  • Expanded Significant Item search functionality with new filtering criteria, including reliability, operational availability, failure criticality threshold - risk, and severity
  • Improved threshold checkbox visibility
  • Enabled selection of predefined symptoms in CBM worksheets when linked to failure concepts in the Failure Diagram, with support for defining and managing symptom records.
  • Added status and progress indicators for Items, Functions, and Failure Modes in Significant Item search, System Functions, and Summary tabs to improve tracking in multi-MSI analyses.
  • Analysis version changes are now logged and written to a CSV file which is attached to the RCM analysis as a document
  • Improved section and subsection naming to better align with objectives

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) Upgrades:

User Value: Increases flexibility in data source configuration, and improved navigation and useability

  • Fault tree generation now allows users to choose between baseline or revised reliability metrics for p(f) value calculations
  • Added page references for transfer gates in the FTA report, with hyperlinks for quick navigation between related sections.

RBD and RBD Analysis Viewer:

User Value: Makes it easier to evaluate the impact of maintenance on system reliability in a single view.

  • Upgraded RBD Analysis viewer to incorporate the effectiveness of maintenance actions, displaying revised reliability metrics alongside baseline values
  • Removed ABD (Availability Block Diagram) as this is now an invalid feature

API and API Versioning:

User Value: Simplifies long-term integration maintenance while preserving compatibility for existing API users.

  • Introduced versioning options: Legacy and v1.0.0.
  • Legacy: Maintains compatibility for customers already using the API without version information in the URL (e.g., http://localhost:8080/systems/fetchAll).
  • v1.0.0: Recommended for new API implementations, using versioned URLs for easier future upgrades (e.g., http://localhost:8080/1.0.0/systems/fetchAll).
    • v1.0.0 is the locked initial version of the API. legacy is provided solely for backward compatibility.
  • Legacy support, existing integrations will not be affected by this change.
  • Resolved an issue where part feature IDs would change each time the model was reopened. IDs now persisted across sessions.
  • Resolved an issue where updating hazard objects through the UI would generate a new system ID in the backend; IDs now persist as expected.
  • Added cookie support for API authentication to expand integration options.
  • Updated login API to correctly handle Group and Role values from request headers.
  • Enhanced login API to allow empty Group and Role values when required.
  • Ensured that the system ID is consistently populated in the id field of JSON payloads.
  • Added support for persisting metadata fields received during import or sync operations, with the ability to return the same metadata on export.

Miscellaneous Changes and Updates

User Value: General improvements to usability, UI, and workflows.

  • Fixed broken hyperlinks in the API Help section for GET, PATCH, and PUT request documentation.
  • Enabled saving of Control Measures to the Library for reuse across analyses.
  • Criticality profile editor project/application profile migrate button moved to appropriate section

(PDF of Release Notes 123kb)

MADE 3.8.9 brings several important feature enhancements focused on expanding and improving Reliability-Centered Maintenance workflows, extending on reporting options for Hazards Analysis, enabling intelligent reuse of library data, and resolving key customer-reported requests. This release adds support for the RCM II methodology in MBRCM, a new Hazard Analysis PDF report, a powerful Load from Library wizard, and various quality-of-life improvements across multiple modules.

Key Features include:

  • MBRCM Enhancement
    • Full support for RCM II methodology, including decision trees and customized workflows
  • Additional Reports
    • Generate MBRCM and Hazard Analysis reports in standardized PDF and Excel formats.
  • Smart Reuse
    • Load from Library feature to import and map model content efficiently.

Model-based Reliability-Centered Maintenance (MBRCM):

Support for RCM II Methodology

User Value: Enables industry-standard decision logic and maintenance task selection for RCM II workflows. • Introduces native support for RCM II methodology alongside existing MSG-3 functionality. This includes:

  • Built-in RCM II decision trees and the ability to import custom RCM II logic trees via JSON.
  • Updates to the Failure Effect Category and task evaluation trees to reflect RCM II logic.
  • Modified task feasibility questions tailored for RCM II.
  • Enhanced manual task creation wizard for RCM II task types.

PDF/Excel Report Generation for MBRCM

User Value: Generate consistent, standardized reports across MSG-3 and RCM II. A new MBRCM Report can now be generated in PDF and Excel formats, compatible with all methodologies. The report includes:

  • System information & mission profile
  • Added a Significant Item Search tab as a supporting detail page under the RCM Analysis tab, enabling users to filter and select items within defined thresholds of criticality for inclusion in RCM analysis.
  • Maintenance Significant Items (MSIs), Functions, Failure Modes, Maintenance Actions.
  • Contributors & Audit log.
  • Decision tree questions and selected answers.

RCM Summary Table Enhancements

User Value: Improves traceability of parameters used in calculations.

  • RCM Summary Table now displays parameters to provide context for maintenance action calculations, especially when the model is updated separately from RCM definitions.

Hazards Implementation Enhancements:

Export Hazard Analysis Report to PDF

User Value: Generate structured, auditable reports for system or subsystem hazards. Supports PDF report generation for hazard analyses, includes:

  • Criticality Profile information and tables.
  • Hazard Diagrams for each system item.
  • Hazard Path Analysis, including:
    • Hazard description generated from the path.
    • Criticality values and categories.
    • Control measures grouped by type with references.

Load from Library Feature:

Streamlined Reuse of System Data

  • The new Load from Library feature introduces a structured, flexible method to import existing item data from the MADE Library or Palette into active projects.
    • Replace Data: Overwrite selected system data categories (e.g., Items, Criticality, RAMS, Functions, Failures, Maintenance) with Library or Palette content.
    • Append Data: Add new Functions, Failures, and Maintenance actions from Library items without overwriting existing project content.
    • Item Mapping: Provides users with a visual and searchable interface to map Library items to project items before applying changes.
    • Category Control: Allows fine-grained selection of which data categories (e.g., only Functions, or only Criticality tags) are updated.

Customer Requests, QoL, and Bug Fixes:

Reliability and Usability Fixes

User Value: Improves accuracy, consistency, and overall user experience across modules.

  • Response Path Default View: Now respects selected criticality profile (not locked to RPN).
  • Export Metadata: Added exportDate to support sorting exports by time.
  • FHA Safety Criteria UI Bug: Resolved unresponsive buttons and missing UI elements.
  • Criticality Parameters: Values now persist without needing to press Enter.
  • FHA Function Paste: Mission assignments now retained when pasting functions

Bugs Fixes and Performance Improvements

  • Included fixes for previously reported issues.

(PDF of Release Notes 162kb)

This release introduces significant upgrades and enhancements across multiple modules, particularly bolstering R&M and Safety analysis capabilities. Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) has been overhauled to better reflect industry practices and improve user experience. Dedicated Hazard Analysis features were added to align with and support MIL-STD-882E System Safety processes, with a new hazard modelling capability via Hazard Diagrams and a Hazard Path Analysis. API Enhancements export/import functionality for various components are extended and improved, including control measures and failure concepts, with better traceability. Additional updates include improvements to Fault Tree Analysis and Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA) , delivering a more customizable and streamlined experience across the platform.

Key Features include:

  • Model-based Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
    • Enhanced RCM Analysis with two workflow streams: model-based analysis and FMECA/FMEA import analysis.
    • Introduced a new RCM Analysis Overview page and contributor management features.
    • Added display of reliability and availability metrics across RCM sections.
    • Enhanced the RCM Summary tab with detailed effectiveness metrics.
    • Introduced Significant Item Search and advanced filtering for Maintainable Items.
    • Added Mission Context tab for defining operating profiles for significant items.
    • Implemented Functional Failure Analysis (FFA) and FMEA import capabilities.
    • Enhanced customization and workflow support for RCM processes.
    • Introduced trade studies functionality to compare tasks against cost/availability metrics.
    • Added reporting capabilities for RCM analysis and audits.
  • Hazards Implementation
    • Added hazard modelling through Hazard Diagrams and introduced hazard taxonomy.
    • Enhanced connectivity between hazard concepts (HS, IM, TTO).
    • Integrated failure diagrams and allowed control measures customization.
    • Introduced Hazard Path Analysis and criticality strategies for evaluation.
    • Added export capabilities for Hazard Path Analysis results.
  • API Enhancements
    • Enhanced export/import functionality, including Control Measures, diagnostic analysis, and Failure Concepts.
    • Improved export options with better traceability and resource management.
  • Fault Tree Analysis Enhancements
  • Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA) Enhancements
  • Zentitle Enhancements
  • Bug Fixes / Customer Requests

Model-based Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM):

User Profiles and Collaboration

  • Enhanced Classic RCM Analysis to include two distinct methodologies: model-based RCM using system data and RCM through FMECA/FMEA import, offering flexibility in performing analyses.
  • Introduced a new RCM Analysis Overview page to manage RCM analyses, enabling users to create, edit, or delete analyses and view key details.
  • Allows creation of analysis versions when the FMEA source is updated.
  • Implemented contributor management functionality, allowing users to define and manage contributor profiles, assign roles, and edit contributor details within an RCM analysis.

SF and MSI Identification

  • Introduced Significant Item Search functionality to help users identify and prioritize critical Maintainable Items for RCM analysis based on meaningful parameters such as reliability, availability, and criticality.
  • Added a Significant Item Search tab as a supporting detail page under the RCM Analysis tab, enabling users to filter and select items within defined thresholds of criticality for inclusion in RCM analysis.
  • Implemented filtering options for Maintainable Items, including, item criticality categories (e.g., critical, safety, mission-critical).
  • Added search result management tools, allowing users to review filtered items, add selected items as Maintainable Items to the RCM analysis, and remove items as needed.
  • Automated Maintainable Item list updates to ensure synchronization with the main RCM analysis page whenever items are added or removed from the search results.

Mission/ Operating Context and Performance Standards

  • Added a Mission Context tab to define and display the functional profile and operating context for Maintainable Significant Items (MSIs), providing essential details for RCM analysis initiation.
  • Introduced a Functional Profile sub-tab to present a detailed, read-only functional profile synchronized with Mission Profile Definition (MPD).
  • Enhanced operational metrics display to include narrative fields for Operating Context and Performance Standards.
  • Implemented a time profile graph to visualize duty cycles of MSIs across mission phases, highlighting segments with active duty cycles and their total duration.
  • Enabled seamless synchronization between Mission Context and MPD.

FFA and FMEA

  • Introduced Functional Failure Analysis (FFA) capabilities to support the generation and management of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) as part of the RCM process, ensuring a reference for maintenance teams.
  • Added a wizard for creating RCM analyses, allowing users to specify analysis details (e.g., name, description) and select the desired RCM methodology, including model-based or FMEA-based approaches.
  • Enabled FMEA data import functionality, allowing users to upload FMEA datasets directly from Excel spreadsheets, streamlining integration with external sources.
  • Implemented robust data structures and interfaces to store and manage imported FMEA data, ensuring accessibility and usability throughout the RCM analysis process.

Methodology, Task Evaluation, and Selection

  • Added the ability to customize RCM workflows, including decision-making questions and task types, to meet program-specific requirements. Customized workflows can now be saved for future reuse, while standardized workflows are available for quick implementation.
  • Introduced a pre-defined workflow to guide users in determining the failure effect category for system components, ensuring consistent classification across analyses.
  • Implemented workflows for task decision-making and evaluation, enabling users to define detailed task characteristics such as type, action, and occurrence using task type worksheets.
  • Developed a structured process to assess the technical feasibility of selected tasks based on predefined criteria and supporting metrics. This includes options for defining maintenance grouping strategies, special triggering mechanisms, and approving tasks for inclusion in the RCM plan.

Trade Studies and Summaries

  • Introduced trade studies functionality within MBRCM to enable the comparison of individual evaluated tasks against cost and availability metrics.
  • Added the capability to calculate and display delta metrics, allowing users to compare the current RCM analysis with open projects. This feature helps identify improvements in cost, availability, and other key metrics resulting from RCM implementation.
  • Enhanced MBRCM to support key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring RCM success, such as reduced breakdowns, increased uptime, and cost savings. Eligible metrics for trade studies include Maintenance Type, Cost, Downtime, MTBM, MTTF, Reliability, and Availability, ensuring comprehensive evaluation criteria.
  • Enabled users to conduct trade studies for all strategies associated with a selected model item and identify the most effective ones based on performance metrics.
  • Added reliability and availability metrics display across various RCM sections, providing insights into baseline, adjusted, and delta metrics for failure modes, functions, items, and systems.
  • Upgraded the RCM Summary tab to showcase detailed worksheet effectiveness metrics and summaries for baseline, adjusted, and delta values of critical reliability parameters, ensuring a comprehensive overview of RCM outcomes.

Analysis Export

  • Added ability to customize analysis outcome table summaries to visualize data as required
  • Added ability to export analysis tables to generic format (Excel and CSV)

Auditing and Traceability

  • Added a new "RCM Audit" tab, providing users with a detailed view of changes made throughout the RCM analysis process. The new detail page contains a table, capturing key changes chronologically, and offers search and filter capabilities to locate events based on contributor.
  • Implemented functionality to allow users to narrate and edit changes made to the RCM analysis.

Guides, Workflows, and Help Material

  • Enhanced the RCM workflow with comprehensive tooltips and guidance text to assist users throughout the analysis process.
  • Developed extensive help documentation for RCM workflows. This documentation includes detailed guidance and descriptions of each step in the RCM process, as well as feature-specific workflows.

Status and Tracking

  • Implemented a dashboard to display the current status of each RCM analysis.

Integrated Model Interactions

  • Implemented the ability to update and synchronize key system model parameters with existing RCM analyses at manageable workflow milestones.
  • Established functionality to apply relevant maintenance tasks and strategies derived from the RCM analysis directly to the system model.

Hazards Implementation:

  • Added ability to model hazards through Hazard Diagrams featuring three core hazard concepts: Hazard Sources (HS), Initiating Mechanisms (IM), and Target/Threat Outcomes (TTO).
  • Introduced Hazard Taxonomy for HSs, IMs, and TTOs, allowing users to reference predefined categories when building hazard diagrams.
  • Enhanced connectivity between hazard concepts: HS connect to IM, IM connect to TTO.
  • Enabled integration with Failure Diagrams, allowing Faults, Failure Conditions, and Functional Failures to appear in hazard diagrams for modelling of failure-to-hazard progression.
  • Added functionality to connect failure diagram concepts (e.g., Faults, Failure Conditions) directly to Hazard Sources.
  • Added flexibility to edit Hazard Taxonomy names and narrative fields for tailored application-specific use.
  • Introduced Criticality Attributes for hazard concepts based on MIL-STD-882E. Probability (1-10) and Software Control (0-10) attributes for all hazard and connected failure concepts, scaled qualitatively. Severity (1-10) attribute exclusive to TTOs to capture hazard severity.
  • Added capability for users to edit criticality parameters.
  • Integrated existing Control Measures Taxonomy into hazard diagrams, enabling selection of predefined control measures for all hazard and failure concepts.
  • Customization to add new control measures if needed.
  • Revising criticality parameters to reflect the effect of control measures using a Barrier Matrix.
  • Introduced Hazard Path Analysis to evaluate hazards at both the item and system levels. Automatically generates Hazard Paths based on user-entered data, displaying key attributes.
  • Implemented options for Path Criticality Strategies. Users can define strategies (e.g., Earliest, Latest, Highest, Lowest, Average) to determine how criticality parameters are calculated for hazard paths.
  • Enabled Column Preferences for Hazard Path Analysis, allowing users to display only the required fields.
  • Added capability to export Hazard Path Analysis Results in .csv format for external reporting.

API Enhancements:

  • Introduced the ability to export Control Measures.
  • Enhanced the optimization of function resources export to better capture detailed information.
  • Added a date stamp to all export resources, providing users with a reliable reference.
  • Enabled analysis exports to include reference to the parent system for improved traceability.
  • Added the ability to export multiple resources simultaneously.
  • Incorporated ambiguity groups into the diagnostic analysis export.
  • Introduced the ability to import Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA) data, including attributes for Functions, Functional Failures, and Failure Conditions.
  • Added the ability to import Mission Profile Definition (MPD) attributes.
  • Enabled the import of Failure Concepts, along with their associated attributes and connections.
  • Enhanced the Propagation Table export to include diagnostic groups, failure mode IDs, and the coverage metric.
  • Updated the FMECA export to now include failure mode IDs.

Fault Tree Analysis Enhancements:

  • Improved clipboard operations for individual events, enabling easier copy-paste functionality.
  • Added a warning notification for large calculation times.
  • Introduced the ability to create folders and organize Fault Tree analyses.
  • Enforced unique naming for FTA analyses: duplicate names are prevented.

Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA) Enhancements:

  • Implemented synchronization between FHA and Failure Diagrams: Failure Condition names updated in FHA will now automatically reflect in linked Failure Diagrams.
  • Enhanced FHA linking and unlinking capabilities by adding tooltips and user prompts for better clarity.

Criticality Analysis Enhancements:

  • Renamed the "Criticality" section in item properties to "Criticality Flag" to align with the terminology used in the Criticality Editor.
  • Added the Criticality Flag options to the Advanced Properties window.

Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD) Enhancements:

  • Implemented a new Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) View that displays a hierarchical breakdown of the RBD structure, and the equations generated/used in calculations for each RBD group, component, or subsystem.
  • Introduced the ability to lock the RBD structure during or after Reliability Allocation (RA) creation.

Monte Carlo Analysis Enhancements:

  • Increased the iteration limit for Monte Carlo simulations.

Technical Budgeting Enhancements:

  • Updated Technical Budgeting Analysis charts to display the percentage split between components in the chart legend.

Diagnostic Analysis Enhancements:

  • Introduced the ability to generate reports directly from the Diagnostic Analysis section.

Zentitle Enhancements:

  • Introduced a new license activation process, including support for offline activation with key considerations addressed.
  • Enhanced the implementation of Zentitle to support seamless sequential license check-out and check-in functionality.

Modelling and Project Upgrades:

  • Introduced Autosave capability with features including automatic save-all functionality (no prompt), a toggle to enable/disable autosave (default: off), configurable autosave frequency and conditions. Additionally, the ability to save the current editor only has been removed.

Bugs Fixes and Performance Improvements

  • Addressed an issue in 3.8.7 SP1 where copy-pasting failure diagrams to new components, or copy-pasting components containing failure diagrams will sometimes prevent updated criticality parameters from being read by FMECAs. This fix will eliminate the issue in existing models.
  • Various bug-fixes
  • Performance improvements to project and file management.
  • Performance improvements to various analysis workflows.

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This Service Pack for MADE 3.8.7 (SP1) focuses on extending and improving the Import, Export, Update, and Synchronization capabilities between MADE and Teamcenter, as well as many usability improvement and bug fixes.

Key Features include:

  • Teamcenter Integration Upgrade (New and Updates)
  • Charting
  • Customer Requests
  • Bug Fixes

RELEASE NOTES 3.8.7 SP1

Teamcenter Integration

  • Added ability to Import Teamcenter System Functions into MADE FHA Functions.
  • Added ability to Import Teamcenter Mission Profiles into MADE Mission Profile Definitions (MPD).
  • Added ability to Export Failure Condition data from MADE into Teamcenter.
  • Added ability to Export FHA Function data from MADE to Teamcenter.
  • Added ability to Update Failure Conditions data from MADE into Teamcenter.
  • Added ability to Update existing FHA Function data from MADE to Teamcenter.
  • Added ability to Synchronize Teamcenter System Functions into MADE Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA).
  • Added additional FHA Function and Failure Condition properties mapping between MADE and Teamcenter.
  • Improvements to the data model for FHA and MPD resources when exporting from MADE to Teamcenter.
  • Added ability to use API Import/Export in conjunction with Teamcenter Import/Export.
  • Improved some of the user interaction language convention used in Teamcenter Import/Export feature.
  • Improved user guidance for the Export workflow when using the Teamcenter Import/Export feature.

Charting

  • Improved data visualization for pie charts in the Charting feature.

Help Content

  • The MADE training guides and manuals have now been updated for version 3.8.7 SP1.
  • The MADE training PowerPoint has now been updated for version 3.8.7 SP1.
  • The MADE workflows have now been updated for version 3.8.7 SP1.
  • Bugs and Usability
  • Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
  • Miscellaneous Usability Improvements

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The MADE 3.8.7 release theme emphasises the importance of safety in aerospace applications and highlights the benefits of using the software to perform more accurate and comprehensive safety analysis. It also emphasises the importance of an enhanced approach to control measures and risk analysis to ensure that safety risks are identified and addressed effectively, and in a more traceable manner in all engineering safety/risk fields.

Key Features include:

  • Safety and Risk
    • Upgraded Mission Profile Definition (MPD)
    • Upgraded Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA)
    • Upgraded MIL-STD-882E and ARP4761 Criticality Profiles
    • New Model-based Control Measures
  • Diagnostic Analysis and Sensor Set Analysis
    • Sensor Set Analysis Enhancements
    • Sensor Library Enhancements
    • Testability Cost Verification Upgrades
  • Integration
    • Additional Integration APIs
  • Customer Requests
  • Zentitle Licensing Upgrade
  • Bug Fixes

RELEASE NOTES: 3.8.7

  • Charting
    • Ability to generate charts using Criticality Profile threshold settings.
  • Control Measures
    • Updated existing control measure concepts and added accessibility of new Control Measure functionality.
    • Added ability to easily cut/copy/paste Control Measure concepts when editing.
    • Added Barrier Criticality Model feature to better visualize and edit Control Measures applied to failure concepts.
    • Added ability to apply sets of Control Measures (Control Measure Sets) to failure concepts.
    • Added ability to quickly assign Control Measure category and subcategory through the editor.
    • Added ability to manage Control Measures taxonomy across multiple projects.
    • Added ability to individually manage Control Measure categories, subcategories, and descriptions.
    • Added new Control Measures taxonomy editor capability.
    • Added ability to aggregate effects of multiple applied Control Measures.
    • Enhanced failure response pathing to consider paths with and without Control Measures.
    • Added compatibility upgrade for legacy Control Measures in existing MADE projects.
    • Added compatibility upgrade for custom Control Measures in existing MADE projects.
    • Added ability to automatically establish Control Measure links for legacy models with existing Control Measures.
    • Added Control Measure Classes to better categorize different types of Control Measures.
    • Added ability to easily edit Control Measures from within Control Measure Sets
    • Upgrade to legacy Compensating Provisions taxonomy.
    • Upgraded icons and visual elements for Control Measures.
    • Added additional columns to Template FMECA reports to show initial and revised criticality metrics to reflect applied Control Measures.
    • Added additional columns to Custom FMECA reports to show initial and revised criticality metrics to reflect applied Control Measures.
    • Added ability for applied Control Measures and Control Measure Sets to apply revised criticality metrics for failure concepts.
  • Critical Item Analysis
    • Upgraded Critical Items Analysis to evaluate critical items based on Severity as well as combinations of threshold types.
  • Criticality
    • Added new MIL-STD-882E RAC Codes and Software Safety Criticality functionality to MIL-STD-882E Criticality Profile to allow Software Safety Criticality assessment compliant to standard.
    • Upgraded the MIL-STD-882E Template FMECA to display RAC codes when assessing risk.
    • Updated Criticality viewers to reflect upgrade to MIL-STD-882E Criticality Profile.
    • Added new MIL-STD-882E Software Criticality Index parameters and SCC matrix to allow for Software Safety Criticality assessment.
    • Updated CR Editor to reflect upgrades to MIL-STD-882E Criticality Profile.
    • Added MIL-STD-882E compatibility updates for legacy models when upgrading to new release version.
  • Diagnostic Analysis
    • Added ability to customize which metrics are used during metric optimization workflow in Diagnostic Analysis.
    • Upgraded visualization options of metric optimization tab in Diagnostic Analysis.
    • Updated language, terminology, naming, and labelling used in Diagnostic Analysis to better reflect functionality.
    • Added ability to calculate detection metrics for each ambiguity group in Diagnostic Analysis.
    • Added ability to filter using Detection metric during optimization workflow in Diagnostic Analysis.
    • Updated Sensor Set Report to reflect upgrades to sensor set analysis.
  • Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
    • Added QoL enhancements for generating Symptom/Symptom Group Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).
    • Updated terminology to reflect changes to Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA).
  • Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA)
    • Added ability to view and edit various Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) function item properties through the Properties Viewer.
    • Added compatibility upgrade for legacy Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) models.
    • Added ability to update the logic for revised criticality assessment in Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA).
    • Upgraded the ARP4761 Criticality Profile to reflect changes to Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA)
    • New Functions List added to Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) to summarize and quickly edit parameters in the analysis workflow.
    • Updated Functional Failure tab to reflect changes to Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA).
    • Relocated FHA Failure Condition details section to the Properties window.
    • Added ability to create Multiple Failure Events in Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA).
    • Added ability to associate Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) Failure Conditions to multiple aircraft or system-level functions.
    • Added ability to create and associate Assumptions to Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA).
    • Added ability to create and associate Mission Events, Conditions, and Specialized Mission Phases to Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA).
    • Added ability to create and associate Crew Awareness to Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) Failure Conditions.
    • Added ability to create and associate Failure Effect to Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) Failure Conditions.
    • New Resource Manager functionality added to manage, edit, and reuse Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) objects.
    • Added ability to create and associate Safety Criteria to Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) Failure Conditions.
    • Added ability to apply Control Measures to Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) Failure Conditions.
    • New revised criticality assessment capability for Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) Failure Conditions.
    • Upgrade and revision of Verification Actions to Substantiation Actions in Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA).
    • Updated Failure Conditions table to reflect changes to Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA).
    • Ability for Links to persist when copying Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) Functions.
    • Upgrade to Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) Report and Report Wizard.
    • Added new Mission Event and Condition objects in Requirements Verification Tool (RVT).
    • Added ability to set custom ID for Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) Functions and Functional Failures.
    • Added ability to create and associate Coverage Justification and Level to Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) Functions.
    • Added help/information icons to accommodate upgraded FHA workflow.
    • Added ability to quickly cut/copy/paste fields through the new FHA failure condition table.
  • Help Content
    • The MADE training guides and manuals have now been updated for version 3.8.7.
    • The MADE training PowerPoint has now been updated for version 3.8.7.
    • The MADE workflows have now been updated for version 3.8.7.
  • Import/Sync
    • Added model function/functional flow properties import through API.
    • Added model function/functional flow properties synchronization through API.
    • Added additional FHA properties for import through API.
  • Export
    • Added new FHA properties data export through API.
    • Added Maintenance data export through API.
    • Added Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) model export through API.
    • Added additional Mission Profile Definitions (MPD) properties export through API.
    • Added additional PHM Analysis export through API.
    • Added Functional Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) export through API.
    • Added RBD Analysis viewer export through API.
    • Added additional FMECA data export through API.
    • Added Failure Concepts export through API.
    • Added Technical Budgeting parameters export through API.
    • Added Reliability Allocation Analysis export through API.
    • Added Hardware Fault Tree Analysis (HW FTA) export through API.
  • Licensing
    • New Zentitle licensing feature to enable offline mode, allowing users to be able to use the new licensing setup in environments without internet connectivity.
  • Mission Profile Definition (MPD)
    • Added ability to create and associate Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) Specialized Phases to Mission Profile Definitions (MPD).
    • New Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) Mission Events tab added to Mission Profile Definitions (MPD).
    • New Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) Mission Conditions tab added to Mission Profile Definitions (MPD).
  • Reliability / Availability
    • Updated System Administrative and Logistical Downtime (MALDT) calculation to comply with international standard.
  • Sensor Library / PHM
    • Upgraded and added additional sensor properties to enable Testability workflows.
    • Updated Propagate All dialogue language and configuration options to better communicate functionality.
    • Updated Sensor Library to better visualize and edit sensor attributes.
  • Palette/Library
    • Added ability to save Test Points when saving items to Palette/Library.

The MADE 3.8.6 SP1 Release addresses a few bugs discovered in 3.8.6. We highly recommend this version is downloaded to address a critical issue in 3.8.6.

The MADE 3.8.6 Release is mainly focussed on the themes of Reliability, MADE Integration and Customer Bugs and Requests. This release aims to improve reliability allocation and reliability analysis (of complex RBDs) to expand the modelling and analysis capability for reliability users. It also continues to improve the MADE Integration APIs, specifically bringing a whole new synchronisation editor and some model import APIs that can be used to rapidly bring in data. Lastly, PHMT continues to compile general useability and customer requests across numerous features through popular requests to better tailor MADE for our customers and increase overall efficiency in the software.

Key Features include:

  • Reliability
    • Reliability Allocation (MTBUM, MTBCF)
    • Mirrored Blocks in Event Space (Complex RBDs)
  • Integration
    • MADE API Integration Editor
    • MADE Synchronisation Editor
    • New MADE Export APIs
  • Customer Requests
  • Bug Fixes

Release Notes:

  • Synchronisation, MADE API Integration
    • A new Difference Editor has been added to view and edit what may be imported into the existing made model by displaying data to be synchronized (included or excluded) to the current project.
    • Added ability for Difference Editor to assign discrete synchronization decisions to individual items/parameters.
    • Added ability for Difference Editor to select entire hierarchical categories for import synchronization, behaving as a primary filter.
    • Added ability for Difference Editor to resume pending import entries in the import log if it had been saved and exited previously.
    • Added ability for Difference Editor to save, exit, and resume an import process which facilitates large model updates and unique user workflows.
    • Added ability for Difference Editor to terminate an import process, this may be done within through the Difference Editor window or through the import log.
    • Added ability for Difference Editor to clearly distinguish synchronization and inclusion/exclusion model items through the editor UI.
    • Added ability for Difference Editor to assign completion status to import logs once all associated import decisions have been selected and merged.
    • Added ability for Difference Editor to assign "Pending" status to import logs once initiated. "Pending" status indicates that decisions have not been assigned and merged.
    • Added ability for Difference Editor to assign a discarded status to import logs when terminated.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to import additional MPD properties.
    • Added ability to synchronise all existing model import data.
  • Environment, MaintenanceCostEstimates (MCE)
    • The Environmental Loading Factor calculation method has been improved to more accurately scale MTTF of specific components according to factor rankings.
  • Export, MADE API Integration
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to export Propagation Table details.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to export additional Mission Profile Definition model properties.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to export indentured phases of Mission Profile Definition model.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to export simulation preferences for all path-based analysis API categories.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to export additional Functional Hazard Analysis properties.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to export additional System Model properties.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to export additional Failure Concepts and Properties.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to export operational details such as Part/Pair Characteristics and Environment.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to export additional model properties and details.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to export sensor properties.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to export item model functional and functional flow properties.
    • FMECA Export can now contain and display Path Control Numbers.
  • FaultTree (FTA)
    • Added the ability to generate custom and model-based Functional Fault Trees with more failure concept types including Mechanisms, Faults, and Symptoms.
    • Added the ability to generate custom and model-based Functional Fault Trees with Symptoms as the top event.
    • Hardware Fault Tree Analysis will now display P(f) values for previously unsupported group types and states.
  • Help
    • The MADE training guides and manuals have now been updated for version 3.8.6.
    • The MADE training PowerPoint has now been updated for version 3.8.6.
    • The MADE workflows have now been updated for version 3.8.6.
  • MADE Excel Import
    • Maintenance Actions Import function now has the ability to delete orphaned maintenance actions.
    • Excel Model Import function is now able to import any part children of components when linked to library models.
  • General, MADE API Integration
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to track and display narrative for each import and export event to provide additional traceability.
    • Added ability to record and display export history and logs in Integration Editor.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to manually check for pending imports.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to maintain record of completed import entries so that endpoints may be established in order to populate a synchronizable model hierarchy.
    • A new Integration Editor has been added to the menu and toolbar to access new database integration features which may be used to export, import, and sync model data.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to manage the import and export endpoints so the user may update and sync the model from different sources.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to store the details of saved or completed imports in a sync log, allowing the user to revisit the specifics of each import.
    • Added ability for Integration Editor to save the details of a completed export in export history to maintain export traceability.
  • Localisation
    • Added Japanese localization enhancements for various glossary entries, Properties, Preferences, and Editors.
  • Modelling
    • Added the ability to drag-and-drop existing system model item outflows to other compatible inflow terminals.
  • ReliabilityAllocation (RA)
    • Reliability Allocation landing page layout and controls updated to reflect additional allocation methods.
    • New tabs added to Reliability Allocation Editor dialog for each of the new allocation methods along with their respective configuration parameters.
    • New reliability allocation method MTBUM (Weighted) added to Reliability Allocation Editor. This allows weighted allocation of failure rate based on target mean time between unplanned maintenance.
    • Reliability Allocation Editor analysis results page updated to display all additional metrics from new Reliability Allocation methods.
    • New reliability allocation method MTBCF (Weighted) added to Reliability Allocation Editor. This allows weighted allocation of failure rate based on target mean time between critical failure.
    • New reliability allocation method MTBF (Weighted) added to Reliability Allocation Editor. This allows weighted allocation of failure rate based on target mean time between failure.
    • Existing reliability allocation types selectable in Reliability Allocation Editor have been labelled and compartmentalized to reflect the calculation method used.
    • New reliability allocation method MTBUM (Equal) added to Reliability Allocation Editor. This allows equal allocation of failure rate based on target mean time between unplanned maintenance.
    • New reliability allocation method MTBCF (Equal) added to Reliability Allocation Editor. This allows equal allocation of failure rate based on target mean time between critical failure.
    • New reliability allocation method MTBF (Equal) added to Reliability Allocation Editor. This allows equal allocation of failure rate based on target mean time between failure.
    • Reliability Allocation Editor configurations can now be exported to Requirements Verification Tool to create new requirements.
  • RBD/ABD
    • The Complex Event Space group in Reliability Block Diagrams analysis has been upgraded to use "Mirrored Blocks" which allows users to designate Source items and place them in multiple path locations within the Event Space, allowing for much more complex dependency mapping.
    • Added ability for Reliability Allocation Analysis to visualize and display calculated RAMS values for Event Space Groups using Mirrored Blocks.
    • Added ability for Reliability Block Diagram analysis to clearly distinguish between source and Mirrored Blocks through the Event Space UI.
    • Added ability for Reliability Block Diagram analysis to embed K/N groups within Event Space groups, allowing for much more complex dependency mapping.
    • Added ability for Reliability Block Diagram Analysis viewer to visualize and display calculated RAMS values for Event Space Groups using Mirrored Blocks.
    • The Complex Event Space group reliability calculation method has been updated and further optimized to handle Mirrored Blocks and embedded K/N groups.
    • Added ability for Hardware Fault Tree Analysis to incorporate Mirrored Blocks when generating the tree.
  • Reporting, SyndromeDiagnostics
    • FMECA (RPN, PHMT) template now has a new column to show Symptoms associated to the failure mode.

The MADE 3.8.5 Release centred around usability of maintenance and mission modelling in MADE. This release introduces a whole new editor for System Maintenance into the RAM module, to provide the user with a smarter, and more user friendly approach to managing maintenance across a MADE model. Additionally, a series of enhancements have been applied to the Mission Profile to provide importing capability as well as more depth in both mission profile phases and mission profile groups of groups. This and much more as PHMT have continued to implement dozens of customer requests and applied general performance improvements to the MADE platform.

Key Features include:

  • System Maintenance Actions Editor
    • A whole new model-based editor has been added to holistically look at the maintenance in MADE. This includes model maintenance, recommendations from Classic or Backfit RCM and shows the source of all maintenance suggestions.
    • This feature also enables maintenance to now be linked to the failure level throughout the model, for failure specific maintenance association.
  • Mission Profile Definition Usability Enhancements
    • The MPD feature has been updated with a focus on usability for customers, allowing more flexibility in the modelling of mission sub-phases, ability to group mission groups, a codification system and the ability to import from other projects.
    • These features make the MPD much more dynamic, flexible and rapid to work with.
  • Misc. Requests
    • A collection of QOL requests across MADE inspired by customers and/or PHMT as defined in the release notes.
  • Bug Fixes
    • A collection of bug fixes across MADE inspired by customers and/or PHMT as defined in the release notes.

Release Notes:

  • FMEA
    • A new Failure Control Number has been added into the model to uniquely identify failure path numbers between analyses in a manner similar to LSAR practices.
  • Reliability / Availability
    • Fixed an issue where specific input values on Weibull curves were causing the RBD Analysis to lag.
  • Reliability / Availability
    • Multiple areas in MADE now support an MTTR value of N/A.
  • Mission Profile Definition
    • The MPD Duty Cycle page has been updated to better show phase and segment names.
    • MPD phases and segments now support custom codes to better support organisation of mission profiles.
    • The MPD Groups feature, now allows the user to place groups inside of groups for advanced mission planning.
    • The MPD Mission Phase definition is now much more flexible and can go down to 5 levels of sub-phases.
    • Mission Profiles can now be imported from other projects using the 'Import' option in MPD.
  • Criticality
    • Fixed an issue where the CIL was not matching the output of FMECA reports for CN.
    • Fixed an issue where custom RPN profiles were not saving custom changes when saved from the application to the project.
    • The CIL has now been updated to qualitatively list the Severity terms for the Criticality Number method.
  • Fault Tree (FTA)
    • Fixed an issue where transferred FTAs wouldn't automatically establish repeat events from the model.
  • Functions Editor
    • Fixed a bug where clicking and dragging a flow between functions broke the flow connection.
  • Maintenance
    • Maintenance Actions can now be inherently linked to Failures by using the new System Maintenance Actions Editor.
    • The new System Maintenance editor has a tab to summarise all System Model 'Maintenance Actions' in one location.
    • The new System Maintenance editor has a tab to summarise all RCM recommended Maintenance Actions.
    • The new System Maintenance editor supports contextual navigation and browsing of the System Model.
    • A new System Maintenance Actions Editor has been added into MADE under Model, System Maintenance.
    • The MTTR for Items can now be based on the Mean Time across multiple linked failures instead of a single Item entry.
    • Annotations now has a wider coverage across the tracking and control of Maintenance Actions and parameters.
    • A new property has been added to Maintenance Actions to track whether Maintenance Actions are required for certification.
    • The model maintenance tab of System Maintenance editor allows the user to browse the linked failures of each maintenance task in one spot.
    • The analysis maintenance tab inside the system maintenance editor allows the user to view all RCM analyses available in the model.
    • The analysis maintenance tab inside the system maintenance editor shows the user each maintenance action suggested by each analysis.
    • The properties viewer now allows the user to select a maintenance action and view Action Details such as costs.
    • The properties viewer now allows the user to select a maintenance action and view General information such as name and type.
    • The model maintenance tab of System Maintenance editor now supports the ability to link specific maintenance actions to failures across the model.
    • The analysis maintenance tab of the System Maintenance editor allows the user to export Maintenance from RCM into respective model items.
    • The model maintenance tab of System Maintenance shows a summary list of key Maintenance details.
    • Relevant FMECA reports now show maintenance actions per FMECA row instead of just at the item level.
    • The System Maintenance Editor now shows the source a Maintenance Action came from, including the Maintenance Editor, RCM or Backfit RCM.
    • The MTTR source in Maintenance Actions can now be sourced from linked failures, including looking at multiple corrective actions across an item.
    • The analysis maintenance tab shows the user a summary of the linked failures of maintenance actions as defined in the respective RCM analyses.
  • Palette / Library
    • Maintenance actions saved into the library have been upgraded to include all new information, including linked failures.
  • Localisation
    • The MADE Guides and Manuals have now been translated in the Japanese Version, please contact PHMT and ISID for more details.
    • Fixed some minor spelling errors in localisation files.
    • The new MADE features have now been localised in Japanese for version 3.8.5, contact PHMT or ISID for details.
  • Reporting
    • The Maintenance focussed FMECAs now report the Maintenance for each linked failure instead of every item.
    • Fixed an issue where the Sensor Set Report was not generating in some cases.
    • Fixed an issue where a SQL error was preventing the System Information Report from generating in some cases.
    • Fixed an issue where reports would crash for system models with specific invalid characters.
  • Import / Export
    • Fixed an issue what was preventing import/sync functionality of model/maintenance import in some cases.
  • Help
    • The MADE training PowerPoint has now been updated for version 3.8.5.
    • The MADE workflows have now been updated for version 3.8.5.
    • The MADE training guides and manuals have now been updated for version 3.8.5.
  • Other
    • A new option has been added to log files to obfuscate model data for sensitive models or projects.

The MADE 3.8.4 Release is focused on Requirements, FTA Improvements and enhancing the integration capabilities of the MADE Platform. This release aims to improve traceability from requirements to safety analyses in MADE using the RVT feature, improve usability and integration of the FTA feature to provide a more powerful and faster process of generating FTAs.

Key Features include:

  • FTA Enhancements

    • The FTA enhancements epic is focused upgrading the MADE FTA capability to be more applicable for the aerospace domain, specifically in a few key areas regarding ARP4761. This includes more informative displays, additional p(f) entries, exposure times and automated linkages to the CMA editor. Another important addition is the addition of FTA reports for both Cut Sets and the generic FTA list/diagram.

    • Requirements Validation Tool

      • This feature involves the introduction, storage, and linkage of safety requirements inside the MADE tool to various analyses and the model. This also involves the import export capability of requirements to other core management tools such as DOORS and POLARION.

    • MADE APIs for Integration

      • The RAMS integration is a demonstration of the ability of MADE to import and export data with a custom RAMS database e.g., an LSAR database to rapidly build models and export/document information. The new MADE APIs are now available for all customers to use, who can send/receive JSON payloads of MADE data to communicate with MADE via an import/export menu in MADE. This requires an aligned data source as well as a mapping mechanism between MADE and the database, for example a tool like the eQ MI software.

    • Misc. Requests

      • A collection of QOL requests across MADE inspired by customers and/or PHMT as defined in the release notes.

    • Bug Fixes

      • A collection of bug fixes across MADE inspired by customers and/or PHMT as defined in the release notes.

Release Notes:

  • Common Mode Analysis (CMA)

    • Common mode analysis events can now be created and linked in an FTA analysis by using the link option in a CMA.

    • The CMA now allows users to search and create events by looking at redundancy gates from an FTA in the search events area.

  • Diagnostic Analysis

    • The default setting for Diagnostic Analysis has now been set to Steady State and Transient State for the prop table.

  • Fault Tree (FTA)

    • The progress monitor for FTAs has been improved to be more responsive and informative.

    • FFTAs and HFTAS have been upgraded to allow the user to turn on additional information like MTTF, or exposure time by using an additional information button in the FTA editor.

    • A new p(f) option has been added into FFTAs to allow users to enter custom failure rates and exposure times for events instead of drawing them from the model.

    • A new option has been added into FTA creation that allows the user to set the default Gate type when a model branches, including AND as well as K/N.

    • FTAs have been adjusted to allow users to more rapidly changed IDs of repeat events through a dialogue.

    • FTAs have been upgraded to allow the user to choose any Top Event for an FTA including custom events and failure conditions.

    • The Custom Event option in FTAs has been upgraded to allow the user to choose pure custom events without taxonomy restrictions.

    • Failure Conditions can now be placed at the very top of an FTA by using the select top event option in a new FTA creation dialogue.

    • A new option has been added in the toolbar of FTA to toggle the Minimum Cut Sets view to show the user the minimal cut set or the cut set in the larger tree.

    • Some tooltips in the FTA editor have been improved for clarity.

  • Integration

    • The JSON Integration supports the coverage of the unit-life parameter as well as the time-based reliability parameters.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to summarise the progress of the import and export.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to export both Model Data and Analysis Data in JSON payloads.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to create a new MADE model from external data.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to import data to an existing MADE model from external data, this is an import of missing data not a synchronisation.

  • Integration, Export

    • The JSON Integration shows the user a summary of the progress while exporting resources.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to export all relevant MADE System Model Properties.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to export all relevant System Model Maintenance Actions

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to export most Failure Concept properties (Fault, Symptom, Failure Condition) including criticality and reliability properties.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to add new endpoints as locations to send export resources to.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to edit and configure existing endpoints as locations to send export resources to.

    • The JSON Integration export wizard supports the ability to choose which MADE analysis information the user wishes to export in each export process.

    • The JSON Integration export wizard supports the ability to choose which MADE System Model information the user wishes to export in each export process.

    • The JSON Integration export wizard supports the ability to choose which MADE System Model elements the user wishes to export information on.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to view the endpoint information when going through each export process.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to export all relevant System Model RAM properties (including failure rates, Weibull information.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to export all relevant System Model Mission Profile properties (excluding special conditions, functional profile, success metrics).

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to export System Model specific properties, including system vendor name, name, ID primarily for the purposes of supporting the rest of the exports.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to export some System Model FHA information, specifically functions and their properties.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to export System Model specific criticality properties like safety or mission critical options.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to export the contents of a chosen Reliability Allocation Analysis as an Analysis Export.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to export the contents of a chosen Diagnostic Analysis as an Analysis Export.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to export the contents of the RBD Analysis as an Analysis Export.

    • The JSON Integration support the ability to export all relevant MADE FMECA data across the numerous templates as an Analysis Export.

  • Integration, Import

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to import System Model Item level properties into the MADE Model.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to import Mission Profile Definition properties into the MADE Model.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to import System preferences and properties into the MADE Model.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to import item criticality properties into the MADE Model.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to add endpoints to specify the location as the source of the import information.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to manage endpoints to specify the location as the source of the import information.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to choose the specific section of information from the MADE model for the purpose of import.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to view endpoints during the import process.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to choose specific model hierarchy elements to filter the import of information into the model.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to import item maintenance properties into the MADE Model.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to import item reliability properties into the MADE Model.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to import item failure concept properties into the MADE Model, including criticality and reliability properties.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to import system FHA properties into the MADE Model, currently only limited to functions.

    • A drag-drop interface has been added into the JSON Integration to facilitate an easier import process when importing model items.

  • Localisation

    • The Japanese Localisation has been extended to cover majority of the features across MADE, contact PHMT for more details on this version.

    • Japanese translations for the MADE guides and manuals can now be found in the HELP menu when the Japanese language is set in preferences.

    • The Japanese version help material has been updated for the current release, contact PHMT for more details on this version.

  • Maintenance Cost Estimates (MCE)

    • The environment chart in MCE now has a legend to assist users with tracking environmental factors.

  • Properties

    • A new field has been into the MADE Model near the Critical Item properties for Mission Critical scenarios.

    • A new field has been into the MADE Model near the Critical Item properties for Loss of System (LOS) scenarios.

    • The JSON Integration supports the ability to perform Basic Authentication of users to restrict the integration to specific users.

  • RBD / ABD

    • The RBD Analysis has been updated to include LCN and Item Numbers by default in the RBD Analysis view.

  • Reporting

    • A new option has been added into the Report Wizard to generate an FTA Cut Set Report for functional FTAs.

    • A new option has been added into the Report Wizard to generate an FTA Report for all FTA types.

    • Shortcuts have been added into the FTA editors that allow the user to quickly generate reports using a report icon.

    • A new report option has been added into the Report Wizard for the new FTA Cut Set Report.

    • A new report option has been added into the Report Wizard for the new FTA Report.

    • A new report option has been added into the Report Wizard for the Hardware FTA Report.

    • An automatic splitting/transfer capability has been added into the new FTA Report to break up oversized trees for reporting purposes.

    • All the reports in the report wizard and the categories now have descriptions.

  • Requirements Verification Tool (RVT)

    • The new Requirements feature is covered by Annotations, meaning any changed names or additions to requirements are listed there.

    • The new Requirements feature supports a dashboard summarises the requirements including the number of requirements that are linked to model items.

    • The new Requirements feature supports an export in CSV format.

    • The new Requirements feature supports the ability to sort and search requirements in the requirements list for easy navigation.

    • The new Requirements feature supports the ability to link requirements to System Model (logical) items for traceability purposes.

    • The new Requirements feature supports the ability to assign verification methods to requirements to document traceability of requirements inside of MADE.

    • The new Requirements feature supports the ability to link or unlink items during the import process.

    • The new Requirements feature supports the ability to detect changed parameters from an import and synchronise the changes.

    • The new Requirements feature supports the ability to import Requirements from external sources (they cannot be created inside of MADE).

    • The new Requirements feature supports a summary page to list and store all the imported requirements in MADE.

    • The new Requirements feature supports the ability to edit existing requirements details such as names, descriptions, and category.

    • The new Requirements feature supports the ability to associate requirements to mission profiles, phases, and segments for added context.

    • The new Requirements feature can be accessed in the Modelling Menu in any MADE Module.

    • The new Requirements import feature has a configuration setup in the preferences to facilitate mapping between external file fields and MADE fields.

    • The new Requirements feature supports the ability to associate requirements to environmental factors from a profile for added context.

    • A dialogue has been added to warn the user when an attachment is deleted.

The MADE 3.8.3 release (Platypus) Service Pack 1 is focused on customer bugs, enhancements.

  • Other
    • Misc. Bugs and Performance Improvements.

The MADE 3.8.3 release is focussed on core reliability improvements, modelling and export. The focus for this release is to introduce a set of new capabilities in a variety of different areas, much like the many features of the Australian Platypus. This build aims to better support core MADE users in performing reliability analysis and improve the ease of getting information out of the model resulting in a more efficient process.

  • Backfit RCM

    • Backfit RCM has been updated to acknowledge the maintenance changes to Failure Finding and On-condition maintenance.

  • Criticality

    • Criticality profiles can now be filtered by the main standards/types by clicking the funnel icon in the criticality profiles editor.

    • The response paths viewer now will automatically show the user relevant parameters based on the active criticality profile from the criticality profile editor.

    • The criticality threshold in the report wizard now listens to the active criticality profile, while disabling other different approaches.

    • The response path viewer has been updated to support all the default criticality profiles; this can be changed by clicking the down arrow in the response paths viewer.

    • The RPN method has been added as a default and customisable method in the criticality profile editor.

    • The MIL-STD-1629a Criticality Number method has been added as a default and customisable method in the criticality profile editor.

    • The criticality profile editor can now be accessed in any module of MADE.

  • Failure Diagram

    • The Compensating Provisions and Detection Methods in the Failure Diagram now support custom entries for re-use across different items and projects.

  • Fault Tree (FTA)

    • The screenshot export of FTA now supports larger FTAs by splitting them into multiple images.

    • The FTA export includes all lower-level logic relationships of each event.

    • The FTA export includes all cut sets and intermediate events leading to the end event.

    • The functional FTA now supports a JSON export by clicking the JSON export button in the top-right corner, including events and pertinent analysis information.

    • A new column has been added in the Fault Tree Builder to show the Level Of Analysis Context of the FTA in the Overview/Management page.

  • Help

    • The MADE Training Powerpoint has been updated to reflect additions/changes in the 3.8.3 version.

    • The MADE Workflows in MADE Help has been updated to reflect additions/changes in the 3.8.3 version.

  • Maintenance

    • The Failure Finding maintenance has been swapped to inspection tasks instead of maintenance, and the On-condition maintenance now supports both inspection and maintenance tasks in the maintenance properties.

    • The maintenance actions editor has been updated to more clearly show the new fields used in the Ao calculation upgrade.

  • Mission Profile Definition

    • The MPD icon in the reliability tab in the properties viewer will take the user to the appropriate unit life page in the MPD.

    • The duty cycle page in the MPD has been updated to designate the amount of duty cycle apportionment an item has accrued for each designated unit life parameter.

  • Modeling

    • A new technical budget analysis has been added into the Main Menu under Analyses, this enables technical budgets and properties to be calculated and compared.

    • A new tab has been added into the properties viewer of systems/subsystems to set technical budgets/limits (e.g. mass, size, power).

    • A new tab has been added into the properties viewer to enter technical properties on components (e.g. mass, size, power).

    • Items throughout the system model can now store technical properties and budgets for the purposes of technical budget analyses.

    • The Propagate All feature now can produce Steady State and Transient State outputs regardless of the module the user is in.

  • Other

    • Misc. Bugs and Performance Improvements.

  • Palette/Library

    • Technical properties can be saved and loaded from items stored in user libraries.

    • MXTF failure distributions and units are now able to be stored and retrieved in user libraries.

  • PLM (TC)

    • The MADE-Teamcenter integration now supports versions 12.x of Teamcenter.

  • RBD / ABD

    • The RBD report now supports MMT and MTBM columns in the reliability overview.

    • A new option has been added into Reliability Preferences to enable the inclusion of multiple Preventive Maintenance into the Ao calculations.

    • The RBD Analysis now supports MMT, MTBM and MALDT for the purposes of Ao calculation.

    • The Ao calculation in the RBD Analysis has been updated to consider multiple preventative maintenance tasks from the maintenance properties when turned on as a preference.

    • A new metric for Mean Administrative and Logistics Delay Time (MALDT) has been added into the RBD analysis to support the new Ao calculation upgrade.

    • A new metric for Mean Maintenance Time (MMT) Delay Time has been added into the RBD analysis to support the new Ao calculation upgrade.

    • A new metric for Mean Preventative Maintenance Time (MPMT) has been added into the RBD analysis to support the new Ao calculation upgrade.

    • A new metric for Mean Corrective Maintenance Time (MCMT) has been added into the RBD analysis to support the new Ao calculation upgrade.

    • A new metric for Mean Time Between Maintenance (MTBM) has been added into the RBD analysis to support the new Ao calculation upgrade.

    • A new metric for Mean Time Between Corrective Maintenance (MTBCM) has been added into the RBD analysis to support the new Ao calculation upgrade.

    • A new metric for Mean Time Between Preventive Maintenance (MTBPM) has been added into the RBD analysis to support the new Ao calculation upgrade.

    • The RBD analysis has been updated to include new unit life parameters, MXBF and calculate R(c) values based on MXTF inputs.

    • The RBD editor has been updated to calculate R(c) values based on unit life parameters.

  • Reliability / Availability

    • The reliability tab in the properties viewer has been updated to separate reliability and availability parameters.

    • Failure distribution types now including unit life types for exponential and Weibull in the properties viewer.

    • Exponential (unit life) and Weibull (unit life) distribution can now be applied to items for cyclic reliability in the properties viewer or the reliability editor.

    • The properties editor now includes exponential (unit life) as an option for assigning cyclic reliability.

    • The maintenance properties list has been updated to reflect CM and PM actions using colour and now allows the user to select more than one preventative maintenance task for Ao calculations.

    • The RBD engine in MADE has been updated to accommodate cyclic based reliability calculations and to be able to use these alongside time calculations for a common period.

    • The reliability editor has been updated to support the entry of exponential distributions to determine how often items are expected to fail w.r.t unit life parameters (e.g. cycles).

    • The reliability editor has been updated to support the entry of unit life parameters for each item, this is used to track how many cycles (or similar parameter) an item has accrued over its operation.

    • The spares on hand field are now restricted to whole integers.

    • The RBD analysis and MPD now supports tracking of life by cycles and calculations by cycles using the MXTF implementation.

    • The RBD analysis and MPD now supports tracking of life and calculations by distance using the MXTF implementation.

  • Reporting

    • Terms have been added for the categories of parameters in the custom RCM/FMECA export.

    • The Classic RCM report can now be exported as CSV format by selecting the drop-down of report type in the report wizard.

    • The MPD report now lists the accrued unit life over the mission duration as a new column.

    • Some of the large report templates performance has been optimised to improve large report generation times.

    • The new Classic RCM CSV export enables the different parameters to be selected or deselected to customise the reporting output.

    • The new report CSV exports support custom configurations allowing re-use of custom templates, this can be managed in the Reporting Application Preferences.

    • The FMECA reports have been aggregated together into a custom FMECA report for the purposes of CSV exporting and customised reporting located in the report wizard.

    • The FMECA CSV export now supports the ability to pick which parameters should be included as columns in the report across all FMECA report templates.

    • Two new options have been added into the report wizard for the CSV report option called Custom RCM and Custom FMECA, these can only be selected when the CSV report type is chosen.

    • The system information report has been updated to include MMT and MTBM fields from the Ao calculation upgrade.

    • The RBD Report has been updated to support life units and MXTF fields in addition to legacy entries.

    • The System Information Report has been updated to support life units and MXTF fields in addition to legacy entries.

    • The FMECA (Maintainability Combined) Report has been updated to support life units and failure rates in terms of life units.

    • The FMECA (MIL-STD-1629a) Report has been updated to support life units and failure rates in terms of life units.

    • The CA Report has been updated to support life units and failure rates in terms of life units.

    • The Maintenance Actions Report has been updated to include the Failure Finding and On-condition changes made in the Ao calculation upgrade.

    • The RBD Report has been updated to include MMT and MTBM as new cells in the Reliability and Availability section.

    • The reporting of Next Effects across FMECA reports has been optimised, reducing duplicate text, and improving report generation efficiency.

  • Taxonomy

    • Japanese flow synonyms are now separated.

The MADE 3.8.2 release (Snapping Turtle) Service Pack 1 is focused on customer bugs, enhancements, criticality engine upgrades and a new Excel import feature to expedite model creation.

This series of upgrades and enhancements is intended to improve the efficiency and flexibility of modelling and FMECA for core MADE users.

Key Features include:

  1. MADE Model and Maintenance Import and Sync

  1. Criticality Data Path Rules

  1. Usability enhancements to the FTA

  1. Consistency and numbering improvements to FMECA Reporting

  • Criticality

    • The MIL-STD-882E now fully supports ability to tailor and edit the criticality method in the criticality profiles section of MADE

    • Criticality methods in the criticality profile can now be customised to pick different criticality parameters based on different mathematical rules

    • The RPN method for criticality has been updated into the criticality profile editor and can now use criticality rules but cannot yet have its classes tailored

  • RBD / ABD

    • Misc. bug fixes and performance enhancements.

  • Import/Export

    • A MADE model can now be imported from an XLS format to create model items and properties

    • Maintenance actions, tasks, personnel and equipment can be imported into a MADE mode from an XLS format

    • Item reliability data can now be imported when performing a model import from a XLS format

    • Models or maintenance information imported from an XLS format can be re-imported to trigger a synchronisation which allows the user to update any changed fields

  • Localisation

    • MADE language options are now locked to licences

  • Criticality

    • The Criticality Path Rules in the Criticality Profile editor support descriptions and a Help link to describe how each rule functions

  • Fault Tree (FTA)

    • The Functional FTA event code restriction has been raised to 7 characters

    • The Functional FTA feature now uses a lock icon to showcase the editing mode

    • The Functional FTA now supports multi-select when adding custom events

    • The Functional FTA text boxes can now be resized

    • Functional FTA analyses now inform the user whether they were model generated or edited

    • The Minimum Cut Sets section of Functional FTA now shows the user a trimmed down view of the cut set being selected

  • FMECA

    • The FMECA CSV reports now support a fault code structure for failure paths based on MADE Taxonomy IDs

    • Induced failures no longer create two paths in the reporting, which now matches the connections in the failure diagram

  • Modeling

    • The Find and Replace feature is now able to search through narrative fields for items, functions and failure concepts

    • The Find and Replace feature can now search for special characters without a / as a prefix

  • Propagation Table

    • The propagate all feature GUI has been updated

  • RBD / ABD

    • The RBD analysis now supports a 'Parent' field which can be viewed by adjusting the columns next to the item column, or seen in the CSV export

  • Reporting

    • The Design Potential FMECA now supports CSV reporting

    • The MCE report now supports a glossary of terms

    • XLS format reports now all generate new tabs for each section of the report, instead one for each component

    • The LCN field is now controlled by a preference to appear 'instead of' OR 'in addition' to the Item ID field in all reports

The MADE 3.8.2 Release is focussed on the SRA module specifically Fault Tree Analysis including modifications to modelling, reliability, and report templates.

These new additions introduce many new capabilities to FTA users and drastically improve the ability to tailor, customise FTA artefacts.

Key Features include:

1. Upgraded FTA to calculate Minimum Cut Sets

2. New Gates and Events added into FTA

3. Ability to Customise and Save FTAs

4. New Relative Importance Metrics

5. Unavailability Analysis

  • Annotations
    • Part level items in the Model now support assumptions and comments
  • Diagnostic Analysis
    • The LRU Grouping is now referred to as a Diagnostic Grouping
  • Fault Tree (FTA)
    • The FTA feature gates can now be converted into AND gates
    • The FTA feature now lists Minimal Cut Sets in a separate table in the FTA
    • A new Transfer Gate has been added into FTAs allowing users to split up large FTAs across multiple analyses
    • The FTA can now rank Cut Sets according to the Fussell-Vesely Relative Importance metric
    • The FTA feature can now rank Cut Sets by the Birnbaum Relative Importance (RI) metric
    • The existing RI metric in FTA has been updated and named iTh Cut Set RI according to source literature
    • Both Functional and Hardware FTAs now support image exports (PNG) and table exports (CSV) for each table in the FTA
    • The FTA feature now uses scientific notation instead of decimal notation
    • The FTA menu now has a new option for the FTA management page, in addition to the legacy options
    • FTA Events now resize according to the display text entered within them
    • All events and gates are now individually selectable and have their own properties in the FTA feature
    • A re-index feature has been added to refresh the UUID sorting of the FTA events
    • The FTA feature Event List and Cut Set List support column sorting for different parameters
    • The Functional FTA can now be customised by editing or deleting a generated FTA or creating a new custom FTA with custom or model-based events
    • The MCS calculations in MADE are now able to observe Cut Sets from inside connected transfer FTAs
    • Basic or Undeveloped Events can now be converted into House Events
    • FTA events that have the same code are designed as repeat events in the FTA diagram and in the Event list/Cut Set List
    • Events in the FTA feature now support their own unique narratives
    • The FTA feature now supports the ability to highlight cut sets in the cut set list including all events that lead to the top event
    • The FTA feature now uniquely analyses and IDs Minimal Cut Sets in the Cut Set List
    • The Hardware FTA can now be exported as image or CSV in the same format as the Functional FTA
    • Failure Conditions from FHA are now able to be shown next to the Top Event in FTAs including pertinent FHA information
    • The FTA features have been upgraded to using a BDD method for calculating FTA P(f)s and Cut Sets
    • Other events in the FTA feature can now be changed to Undeveloped Events
    • Other events in the FTA feature can now be changed to Basic Events
    • The FTA feature now supports a stale or recent field that shows the user whether p(f) data is out of date
    • The FTA feature now supports an error/warning feature that informs the user if model events have changed since the FTA was generated
    • The FTA feature now has a logic solver that shows the user how child events are connected to a top or intermediate event
    • Repeat Events will now be shown in the FTA feature bundled together in the event list or showing X:Y format in the event blocks
    • Failure Conditions at the Top Event in FTA can now be accessed by right-clicking the top event or using the failure condition symbol next to the event
    • Fault Tree Analyses can now be saved after being edited
    • The Hardware FTA now has ID fields for events in a similar manner to Functional FTA
    • Fault Tree Analyses can now be saved in the FTA overview/management page for later reuse
    • Once created in the FTA feature, Transfer Gates will open the linked Transfer FTA
    • Linked FHA Failure Conditions now compare target P(f)s against calculated P(f)s marking the target in red when it is not met
    • The Functional FTA feature now fully supports naming templates of failure concepts from Preferences
    • The Functional FTA now supports Cut, Copy and Paste actions including shortcut commands
    • The FTA symbology has been updated to align with NASA and NUREG standard formats
    • The FTA feature now supports toolbar features for commonly performed actions
    • The Repeat Events in Functional FTA are shown using primary selection (yellow) and other repeat events are shown with secondary (blue selection)
    • The FTA feature now has an overview /management page to store FTA analyses and view/edit properties of each FTA
    • The Functional FTA feature now can show all events leading to a top event when a Cut Set is selected
    • Mirrored blocks in the MADE Model (e.g. faults observed in two paths) are now shown as repeat events automatically identified by MADE
    • The Functional FTA now shows stale P(f) calculations in the event boxes using greyed out text
    • The Minimal Cut Sets list in the Functional FTA now has a default ordering of the P(f) from highest to lowest
  • File IO
    • A new Windows shutdown pause feature has been added to stall the shutdown of MADE which provides the user an opportunity to save their work/model
  • Help
    • The MADE Training material has been updated for the new content in version 3.8.2
  • Modeling
    • The LCN field now supports input of special characters
    • The search capability can now search for special characters when "/" is placed in front of the special character
    • A prefix of LCN or Item ID can now be added into the Project Explorer to sort by the selected code
    • CSV export of the propagation table can now support above 250 rows and columns
    • The Warnings and Errors section has 2 new warnings for duplicate item IDs and LCNs
  • RCM
    • Fault display names are now being used in the Backfit RCM feature
  • Reliability / Availability
    • The FMR field now supports a range from 1E-3 to 1E3
    • The RBD Analysis can now calculate Unavailability for each item in the RBD.
  • Reporting
    • The RBD Report now includes Unavailability in the main report sections
    • A new Design Potential FMECA report has been added into MADE which uses failure rates and RPN parameters
    • Multiple reports can now be deleted at once using shift selection in the Report History
    • Report headers, footers and logos can be further customised using the Report Project Preferences

The MADE 3.8. release release is modelling usability improvements, reporting and improving the quality and speed of general modelling in MADE. Many of these improvements were suggestions by users, all resulting in improving the efficiency and quality of modelling including greater utilisation of Criticality Thresholds and new methods, Greater control and accessibility to FMEA/FMECA data and copy/paste of modelling functionality such as functions & flows.

Key Features include:

  1. Critical Item Analysis – new thresholds and charting
  2. Component FMEA/FMECA
  3. Naming Templates – Display Names for Failure Concepts
  4. CSV Reporting – FMEA/FMECA Reports
  5. Copy/paste Functions & Flows
  • Criticality
    • The Critical Item Analysis now sorts by criticality and supports a CSV export
    • The Critical Item Analysis charts have been updated to show a count of how many items are in each major group of a selected criticality threshold instead of the top 5 items.
  • Diagnostic Analysis
    • The False Detection Rate (FDR) term in the PHM sensor parameters has been renamed to False Negative Rate (FNR)
  • FTA
    • The Functional FTA will now calculate the End Effect probability based on selected basic events in the cut set list
    • The Functional FTA now allows the user to select an End Effect Failure Condition to provide additional FTA context.
    • The Functional FTA now shows any FHA information for a top-event failure condition by hovering over the concept (only if the condition is linked to an FHA condition)
  • Failure Diagram
    • All Failure Concepts now support Display Names in addition to Taxonomy names, controlled by the Naming Templates preference.
    • The part connection button now remains on after it has been used to create a pair to facilitate faster connection of multiple pairs
    • Systems and Subsystems now support failure diagrams by right-clicking them in the System Model
    • Failure Conditions now support AND/OR gates to perturb Failure Modes in MADE, where AND gates perturb multiple failure responses and OR gates perturb a single failure response.
  • Functions Editor
    • Functions and flows can now be copied and pasted using right-click in the functions editor.
  • Help
    • The MADE glossary now supports definitions for all Sensor Parameters and Metrics
  • Localisation
    • The Japanese version of MADE now supports translations for Failure Concepts, Functions and Flows.
  • Mission Profile Definition
    • Multiple selection using shift and control select now works on all sections of the MPD feature.
  • Modeling
    • All items in the System Model now support an LCN code in the item properties viewer.
    • The modelling preferences now allows the user to control whether flow labels show the flow, property or both for the display label.
    • The duplicate item name warning now only reports a warning if duplicate items have the same name and item number.
  • Taxonomy
    • New cyber security causes and mechanisms have been added into the failure taxonomy.
  • Modeling - Bond Analysis
    • The Bond Graph viewer now supports a Controllability Check which shows the user uncontrollable Bonds in purple
    • The Bond Propagation table now includes the Bond Variable and the Flow Response that were perturbed for each failure.
    • The Bond Analysis Equation Viewer now uses the domain variable names instead of efforts and flows.
  • PHM
    • Various tooltips have been added into the Sensor Library, Sensor Parameters and Test Point Editor in the PHM module.
  • Propagation Table
    • Failure Conditions can now be perturbed in the system model and can also be used in the propagation table using a preference
  • Reliability / Availability
    • The RBD Analysis viewer will now automatically expand all hierarchy levels in the system model.
    • The reliability editor now provides visual feedback on the failure distributions that are not currently being used.
  • Reporting
    • All FMEA/FMECA reports now support the 'Component FMEA' option, allowing users to select contents and End Effect of a FMEA/FMECA report.
    • FMEA/FMECA reports now support CSV export as an option in the Report Wizard
    • All reports now follow the reporting templates preference for the reporting of failure concepts.
    • New criticality thresholds have been added into Critical Item Analysis, FMEA/FMECA Reports and PHM Analysis.
  • Sensor Library
    • Sensed Elements for categories in the Sensor Library now support Search, Select All and Deselect All functionality.

The MADE 3.8.0 release is focused on extending the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Module’s capability. Additionally, upgrades to the existing Functional Diagram (FHA) have been made to automate creation of the System Model.

Key Features include:

1. Sensor Selection Optimizer

2. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curves

3. Functional Diagram (FHA) and System Model Integration

4. Extension of the Propagation Table

5. Importing a Diagnostic Table

  • Models built in previous versions of MADE are automatically updated to change Failure Conditions, Markov Analyses and the Functional Diagram – PHMT recommends saving models before performing this process
  • Common Mode Analysis (CMA)
    • Failure Conditions are now searchable concepts while performing a CMA analysis
  • Criticality
    • Failure Conditions can now be assigned with qualitative criticality parameters (occurrence, severity etc.)
    • Failure Conditions can now be assigned with quantitative criticality parameters (alpha, beta etc.) in the failure diagram
  • Diagnostic Analysis
    • Sensor sets can now be sorted by the ‘parameters’ column in the metric optimisation page of PHM
    • Additional parameters and metrics for Failure Detection and Isolation have been added throughout the Diagnostic Analysis
    • Diagnostic Tables in .csv format can now be imported into MADE
    • Symptoms can now be included in PHM Analysis
    • LRU Groups can now be defined to allow Acceptable Ambiguity for use in PHM Analysis
    • A new report for Sensor Coverage has been added into the Diagnostic Analysis editor in PHM
  • Failure Diagram
    • Parts now have a shortcut when right-clicked in the Failure Diagram to take the user to the Parent Failure Diagram
    • Failure Conditions can now be copied and pasted including narratives and parameters
    • Failure Conditions in the Failure Diagram have been upgraded into Failure Concepts allowing properties, display names and better visualisation
    • Failure Concepts that make up a Failure Diagram path now appear in the Response Paths viewer
  • Fault Tree
    • Failure Conditions now appear in the Functional Fault Tree to provide context on Functional Failures
  • Functional Diagram (FHA)
    • The Functions List now provides a context sensitive approach to the Functional Diagram
    • The Functional Diagram now supports windows allowing external functions to be imported into the current diagram
    • Failure Conditions in the Functional Diagram now support keyboard shortcut commands
    • The FHA Report now supports a context sensitive approach, allowing an FHA to be generated at any level in the Functional Diagram
    • The screenshot icon in the toolbar can now be used to export the Functional Diagram
    • The Functional Diagram now supports sub-diagrams of lower-level functions accessed via right-click
    • A new editor has been added into the Functional Diagram to store and manage external functions
    • The Functions List in the Functional Diagram now supports editing of Failure Condition properties
    • Pre-MADE 3.8.0 Functional Diagrams are automatically updated to the new Functional Diagram format
    • A new wizard has been added into the Functional Diagram allowing the user to allocate functions to logic
  • Help
    • A new guide has been added to ‘Help’ explaining the PHM Genetic Algorithm
  • Modeling
    • LRU Groups can now be defined to allow Acceptable Ambiguity for use in PHM Analysis
    • Miscellaneous bug fixes and UI improvements
    • MADE progress bars are now more responsive to stop analyses and reports
  • Modeling - FCM Analysis
    • The weight matrix can now be exported from the Analysis menu for FCM models
  • Palette/Library
    • The MADE palette and Example Systems Library has been updated for the new version of MADE
  • Propagation Table
    • A preference has been added allowing Failure Conditions to be used in the Propagation table in place of Functional Failures
    • Symptoms can now be included in the Propagation Table appearing as Potential Sensor Locations for failures
    • A new preference has been added that allows for flow display names to be used in the propagation table instead of taxonomy names
    • Failure Conditions can now be perturbed in the system model and can also be used in the propagation table using a preference
  • RCM
    • Failure Conditions now appear in Classic RCM to provide more context for failure mode analysis
    • Failure Conditions now appear in Backfit RCM providing more context for failure modes
  • Reporting
    • Failure Condition display names now appear in FMEA and FMECA reports
    • Naming template names for Failures can now be used in the Sensor Coverage Report
  • ROC Curves
    • A new ROC Curve feature has been added into MADE for sensor trade studies
  • Sensor Selection Optimiser (SSO)
    • A new Sensor Selection Optimiser feature has been added into MADE to help select optimal sensors for PHM Analysis

The MADE 3.7.4 release is focused on commercial aerospace certification activities and risk assessment, providing a more comprehensive solution to designing an aircraft in accordance to ARP4761. This release transforms MADE into an all-in-one solution for a model-based approach to performing safety and risk assessment for aerospace certification.

Key Features include:

    1. Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA)
    2. Common Mode Analysis (CMA)
    3. Markov Analysis (MKA)
    4. Failure Rate Prediction (FRP) - 217F
  • Annotations
    • The Annotation Notification popup is now appearing based on the Annotations Policy
  • Criticality
    • The Critical Item Marker now updates based on manual selections or via the Critical Item Analysis
    • A Subsystem can now show a Critical Item icon if any of its children are critical
  • Failure Diagram
    • Parts now have a shortcut when right-clicked in the Failure Diagram to take the user to the Parent Failure Diagram
    • The Failure Condition and Detection Methods dialogue can now be resized
  • Safety
    • A new feature called Common Mode Analysis has been added into the SRA module
    • A new Functional Diagram has been added to define logical independent functions for an FHA
    • A new Failure Conditions editor has been added to the Functional Model to perform an FHA
    • A Functions List has been added into the Functional Model to provide an alternate view of the model
  • Mission Profile
    • Environmental profiles and characteristics can now be assigned to Mission Phases and Segments in the MPD for use in FHA
    • A page containing Special Conditions has been added to the Mission Profile for use in the FHA feature
    • Copy and Paste in the system model now includes Duty Cycle properties from the MPD
  • Maintenance Cost Estimates
    • The MCE maintenance supplier and country are no longer accessible until a maintenance type is selected
  • Modeling
    • A new warning has been added into the Problems Viewer for Parts that do not form a Pair
    • Creating a new item now defaults context to the item name
  • Palette/Library
    • The System Model will now highlight compatible flows when clicking and dragging a flow
    • Multiple items may now be dragged out of the Palette at the same time
    • The palette search will now search by output flow names as well as item names
  • Reliability/Availability
    • Parts now show their Reliability in the top-left corner of an RBD Model
    • A new feature has been added called 217F Failure Rate Prediction into the RAM module
    • A new feature called Markov Analysis has been added in the RAM module
  • Reporting
    • A new Functional Hazard Assessment Report has been added into the Report Wizard
    • A new report called Common Mode Analysis has been added into the Report Wizard
    • The RBD Report has been modified to include the MTTR parameter in the headers and overview tables
    • The RBD Report now resizes the RBD images regardless of size and centers the images
  • Other
    • A queueing system has been added into MADE to improve the way check-in and check-out of module licenses is performed
    • Duration of Operation can now be used in the Find & Replace feature
    • Misc. bug fixes and performance improvements

The MADE 3.7.3 Release is focussed on risk assessment and criticality features. The main implementations for this release have been a new “Complex RBD Group” analysis, new criticality/risk methods, a new criticality profile editor to store and manage criticality methods and updates to the various criticality editors to improve the ease of use of criticality analysis.

  • Criticality
  • A Criticality Profile Editor has been added into the SRA module, allowing for storage of standard criticality methods and allowing customisation of some criticality methods.
    • A new risk method has been added into MADE SRA module for MIL-STD-882E risk assessment, located in the criticality profile editor.
    • A new risk method has been added into MADE SRA module for ARP 4761/4754A risk assessment, located in the criticality profile editor.
    • A new risk method has been added into MADE SRA module for ISO ASIL risk assessment, located in the criticality profile editor.
    • The criticality editor and properties editor have been updated to include new criticality sliders that align with the newly added criticality methods. The criticality editor now has a filter that will grey out any criticality sliders that are not relevant for the active criticality method.
    • The probability slider used in Fuzzy Criticality has been renamed to Causal Probability.
  • Mission Profile Definition
    • The MPD editor drop-down boxes have been improved to be faster to access and edit.
  • Modelling
    • Feedback connections will no longer be automatically created when a new flow is connected to a port that already contains an incoming flow.
    • New models created in MADE 3.7.3+ will be incompatible with earlier versions of MADE.
    • The updates for FCM Analysis and Bond Analysis have been updated to better describe the parameters.
    • The criticality and maintainability properties in the general properties of an item have had name changes to better reflect what the properties are.
  • Modelling – Bond Analysis
    • Bond Analysis failure injection will now show a simple prop table for the injected failure, similar to FCM Analysis.
  • Other
    • Misc. bug fixes and UI improvements.
    • The version of eclipse used by MADE has been upgraded allowing for views and editors to be moved anywhere around the screen and allowing all views and editors to be detached from the main application.
  • Palette/Library
    • H2 database user libraries now support multiple user access and writing.
  • Reliability/Availability
    • The reliability sliders have been updated to allow for a larger range of MTTF and PFR values.
    • A new RBD group has been added into the software called "Complex Group - Event Space", allowing for the analysis of complex RBD arrangements such as distribution systems.
  • Reporting
    • A new FMEA report has been added to support and document the ARP 4761 risk method, called Functional FMEA (ARP 4761).
    • A new FMECA report has been added to support and document the ARP 4761 risk method, called Functional FMECA (ARP 4761).
    • A new FMECA report has been added to support and document the MIL-STD-882E risk method, called FMECA (MIL-STD-882E).
    • A new FMECA report has been added to support and document the ISO 26262 ASIL risk method, called FMECA (ISO26262, HARA ASIL).
    • The Reliability Allocation report has had a design refresh, allowing larger models to better fit the information in the report.
    • The consistency of reporting narratives and descriptive text has been improved across all MADE FMEA and FMECA reports.
    • A legend has been added to the Maintenance Association page in Backfit RCM to show the baseline vs. proposed action.

The MADE-TC 1.0 Release is the first Teamcenter to MADE integration co-developed by PHMT and Siemens. This release is focussed on the core capabilities of importing a systems engineering model (logical) into MADE, performing analysis and then saving results/models back into Teamcenter. This release is focussed on the Active Workspace (AW) browser, using the Analysis Request (AR) feature to store the model context and analysis directions.

  • Import
    • Importing a Teamcenter Logical Model is accomplished using the Import Wizard. This wizard guides the user through the process of converting a Teamcenter model into a MADE model.
    • Item matching can be used during the import process, allowing MADE specific data to be re-used and applied to the imported model.
    • The Teamcenter model in the AR context is converted into a MADE model using the modelling rules in MADE, creating a hybrid functional and logical model with flows and inter-component connections.
    • MADE modelling validation rules are applied to the TC model during the import process. A list of warnings and/or errors is shown to the user in the event of any issues.
    • A link between the AR and MADE model is formed when the import is used, creating traceability between the TC and MADE model.
    • In the Import Wizard, Functions and Flows can be allocated by selecting the desired Function or Flow then either dragging and dropping, double clicking on the target or selecting the target and pressing the <Enter> key.
    • During import the inflows and outflows are clearly marked to assist users matching MADE in flows and out flows.
    • The "Created By" user is now populated based on the logged in Teamcenter user performing the import.
    • The TC import process can import a simple logical model without functions to support quick import use cases.
    • During the Import process, the dialog that informs users about allocating multiple Functions or Flows can be suppressed with a configuration option within MADE.
  • Export
    • Reports and other files from MADE can be saved to the AR Results section using a wizard.
    • MADE models are immediately listed in the AR/Study tab after being saved to Teamcenter.
    • Dialogues have been added to inform the user of successful save operations for models or analysis results.
    • The RAMS Model object has all the regular life cycle commands including check in, check out, save, save as and revise.
    • A linked AR can be accessed from the MADE Model (RAMS Model) tab of the Active Workspace Editor if a RAMS Model that is linked to an AR is selected.
  • Other
    • The integration can be used with the default Analysis Request (AR) state workflow, or a custom workflow created for the integration.
    • An embedded Active Workspace (AW) editor has been added into MADE to allow for navigation of Teamcenter inside the MADE application.
    • The embedded AW browser can be used to update, edit or annotate the AR allowing analysis information to be added to the AR.
    • Selecting Analysis Request or RAMS Model revision objects in the embedded Active Workspace editor allows interaction with the selected objects within MADE.
    • Shortcut commands have been added into the MADE GUI to allow the user to navigate directly to the active AR or RAMS Model in active workspace.
    • In the Recent AR/Study list, double clicking on an AR or Study will automatically select the AR or Study.
    • MADE caches results of AR selection, allowing the user to close the AW editor and still be able to reload a previously opened AR or model if the same MADE project is open.

The 3.7.2 release is a minor release focused on modelling enhancements and new report templates.

  • Fault Tree
    • The Functional Fault Tree Relative Importance now calculates based on a summation of all cut-sets.
  • Functions Editor
    • The minimize flow properties button in the functions editor now stays in place when scrolling through the editor.
    • The up and down arrows in the functions editor now stay in place while scrolling through the editor.
  • Help
    • A Manuals menu option has been added to the Help menu to directly access Module Manuals.
    • All Module Manuals have been updated to version 3.7.2.
    • The MADE Training PowerPoint has been updated to version 3.7.2.
    • All User Guides have been updated for version 3.7.2.
    • All pdf files in MADE will now be opened with the users’ default pdf program instead of and embedded viewer
    • The Classic RCM User Guide has been added to the Help > Guides menu.
  • Modelling
    • The warnings and error validators have been optimized, improving the responsiveness of modelling with complex models (> 3000 items).
  • Modelling - Bond Analysis
    • The GY and TF Bond Elements can no longer have multiple inputs or outputs in bond models.
    • The ability to check a Bond Graph for controllability has been revised and will update the user automatically, as well as being accessed using a right-click.
    • The Bond Graph text and spacing has been revised to better display bond graphs and prevent diagram crossover.
    • The Bond Graph now colours bond elements outside the current model level of indenture in a blue shade.
    • Subsystems in Bond Graph models have been upgraded to allow for perturbations and fault injection to be performed in bond models, the subsystem will now emulate the components that directly link to its output.
    • The 1-J and 0-J Bond Element junctions have been revised and will no longer allow perturbations for bond models.
  • Modelling - FCM Analysis
    • The No Threshold analysis preference for FCM models has been revised and upgraded to allow users to simulate FCM models with limits but no thresholding of values.
    • The Bivalent Sigmoid analysis preference for FCM has been revised and both sigmoid options have updated curves.
    • FCM Response Simulation Graphs now show progress of loading when multiple plots are selected at once.
  • Reporting
    • The Organization Logo image from Application Preferences > Organization Details is now being included in all BIRT report cover pages.
    • The Sensor Set Details Report has been updated to improve the display of the report body content including the new changes to the PHM module and include the new report style glossary of terms and cover page.
    • The Component Test Point Report has been updated to improve the display of the report body content and include the new report style glossary of terms and cover page.
    • A new automotive FMECA template has been added into MADE based on the AIAG 4th edition template.
    • A new automotive FMEA template has been added into MADE based on the AIAG 4th edition template.
    • A new automotive FMEA template has been added into MADE based on the SAE J1739 standard.
    • A new automotive FMECA template has been added into MADE based on the SAE J1739 standard.

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