SYSTEMS ENGINEERING NEWS

Surge in SE Tools Database (SETDB) Updates

The Systems Engineering Tools Database (SETDB), developed by PPI in partnership with INCOSE, saw a surge in updates by tool vendors during late December and early January. Recent SETDB updates include:

Vendor: Absolute Software Inc.

• Absolute Visibility: A cloud-based application that enables you to see all of your devices and application, inventory all software assets, build and maintain a device inventory on your network, and provides reports on geolocation, usage and the health of all of your essential applications.

• Absolute Control: Absolute Control enables you to retain command of all your endpoints, all the time even if they are off your network using a persistent link between your Absolute Visibility Dashboard and your devices. Using the link, you can freeze lost or stolen devices wipe and remotely wipe data.

• Absolute Persistence: Absolute Persistence adds a high level of resilience to your missioncritical apps, granting them the power to heal and reinstall themselves whenever they’re disabled, altered, or uninstalled.

Vendor: Agent oriented Software (AOS)

• CoJACK™: CoJACK™ is cognitive architecture used for modelling the variation in human behavior. It is used in simulation systems to underpin virtual actors.

Vendor: ALD Ltd.

• FRACAS: ALD's third generation, web based and user configurable Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) that captures information about equipment or the processes throughout its life cycle, from design, production testing, and customers support.

• Fault Tree Analysis: Up-to-date, intuitive and powerful fault tree analysis diagram interface allowing full control over the diagram: elements location, colors, styles, zooms, etc. Handy methods for diagram printing and simple copy & paste transfer to other applications and linking to ALD FMECA modules.

• Process and Design FMEA: Provides potential product Failure Modes and Effects Analysis and is fully compliant with AIAg FMEA and QS 9000. Features a full visibility failure mode, effect and cause chain, built in corrective actions and support for the decision-making process with full FMEA documentation.

• FMEA/FMECA with Testability: Perform FMEA with one click switching to FMECA mode, full sharing of reliability and maintainability data, powerful testability capability, full set of FMEA/FMECA reports and more.

• Availability Analysis RBD: Reliability Block Diagram module for availability analysis that supports all failure and repair distributions, graphical representations and event driven Monte Carlo Simulation. Multiple configuration comparison of availability.

• Safety Commander: An Integrated Safety Assessment tool for Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) with the capability to support aircraft level fault analysis (create, calculate and analyze) of integrated fault trees of multiple systems.

Vendor: Ansys Inc.

• Ansys medini analyze: A model-based, integrated analysis tool for safety-critical electrical