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ITEM announces Reliability Short Courses

ITEM Software offers short courses which cover the methodologies and techniques used to satisfy most reliability and safety requirements. Using lecture and hands-on activities, each class will give you an excellent overview of how to approach your reliability analysis goals. Press Release

ITEM announces www.reliabilityeducation.com

ITEM Software is pleased to announce the launch of a new website, www.reliabilityeducation.com to support the reliability industry and practitioners. The site is intended to provide basic information about reliability topics and analysis methodologies. It includes a glossary and links to other sources of information and education. Press Release

iQRAS 2.0 Available

The ITEM Quantitative Risk Assessment System (iQRAS) is a comprehensive Windows-based software tool for conducting Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA). The tool assists the risk analyst in modeling deviations from a system’s nominal functions, the timing and likelihood of such deviations, potential consequences, and scenarios leading from initial deviations to such consequences. The analysis of these models then helps the analyst in understanding the risks associated with the system by generating quantitative estimates of risk levels, and identifying the most significant contributors.
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ITEM ToolKit 7.08 Available

This upgrade includes updates to the published Telcordia / Bellcore electronics and NSWC mechanical prediction standards. Additionally, ITEM introduces a view-only client for network installations which does not take up a license. This is for managers and other users who only need to view projects and see results, not make changes. Another example of how we listen to our customers and deliver what is important to them.

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Knorr-Bremse Chooses ITEM Software

The generic functional safety standard has hit the automotive industry hard. As per IEC 61508 safety is defined as, "Freedom from unacceptable risk to personal injury or of damage to the health of people, either directly or indirectly as a result of damage to property or to the environment". Functional safety is a part of the overall safety that depends on a system functioning correctly under normal operation. As a manufacturer of braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles, Knorr-Bremse used ITEM ToolKit™ to extend their traditional FMEA analysis to a fully functional safety analysis.
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Circé Engineering Goes Nuclear

Circé Engineering are experts in complex and critical systems for the Aeronautical, Nuclear, and Transport Industries. Circé has recently performed an Analysis for a French Nuclear Installation for the CEA (French Nuclear Ministry).
Confronted with problems of significant availability of its ventilation and electrical distribution systems, Circé Engineering has modeled all the failure modes and their consequences, as well as the scenarios that were causing the appearances of critical events, within the ITEM ToolKit™ FMECA module.
Around 1,000 failure modes and 200 events have been created for this analysis.
ITEM ToolKit's fault tree functionalities have also allowed a clear identification of the functional state points by:

Using different colours for every functional sub-group,

Inserting symbols for the main components,

The use of the various maintenance times bringing an accurate modelling of the installation operational state,

A0 printing format facility allowed the visualisation of the full project.

Thereafter, the action plan implemented following this study made it possible to notably improve the availability of the installation, by eliminating the weak points and improving the redundancy.

Eclipse Aviation certifying affordable "personal" jet travel

Eclipse Aviation has shown compliance with safety directives of 14 CFR Section 23.1309 as part of the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) process for certifying the airworthiness of the Eclipse 500 aircraft. The safety assurance process is complex, and requires traceability of analyses and their results. Eclipse Aviation has incorporated the ITEM ToolKit™ software suite into their safety assurance process.
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Harvard School of Medicine - Safety and Risk Initiatives

Concerns about safety are no more acute than in the field of healthcare. The safety crisis is highlighted by medical malpractice judgments that have reached historic proportions, and where an estimated 95,000 patients die under a physicians care while in a hospital. Physicians at Harvard School of Medicine and ITEM Software have partnered to develop Risk Models for Insurers, Hospitals and Device manufactures to assess procedural risk and invoke effective methods to control them.
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Xi'an Aircraft - Building Maintainability into the MA-60

Reliability and maintainability requirements for short to medium range aircraft is outlined in CCAR-25 and FAR-25. Functioning as a Systems Integrator, Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group used ITEM ToolKit™ to demonstrate a high degree of reliability by selecting vendors with proven reliability track records. While on the drawing board, Xi'an used the MainTain ™ module to construct maintenance policies and incorporate easy access to components that would require normal maintenance thereby increasing the dispatch rate.
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NASA chooses ITEM

The University of Maryland (UMD) announced in early July 2003 the exclusive licensing of the NASA-sponsored Quantitative Risk Assessment System (QRAS) to ITEM Software, Inc., of Anaheim, CA. The license agreement enables the commercial enhancement of this innovative Probabilistic Risk Assessment software system for a worldwide market, as well as NASA mission programs.
Click here to read 2005 SPINOFF article (go to page 90)... (NASA website/pdf)

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