Completing Wizard Pages for Creating a Project with Custom Settings
In the New Project Wizard, Create a new Project is as an option on the Select Project Starting Point page. When you select it and click Next, the New Project Wizard displays pages for creating a Project with custom settings. The first of these pages is the Select Project Modules page. While this page is similar to the Modules Selection window that opens when Windchill Risk and Reliability starts, it provides for choosing the modules to include in the Project’s default System file. The list is populated based on your PTC license.
1. On the Select Product Modules page, select the modules to include in the Project. You can use the buttons for clearing or selecting all modules to make the selection process easier. Clicking a checkbox switches between selecting and clearing the checkbox for the module.
2. When finished, click Next. The Set Project Properties page appears only if one or more of the following modules is selected: FMEA, FRACAS, Maintainability, or Prediction. Go to step 3. Otherwise, the Select Common Library Files page appears. Go to step 4.
3. On the Set Project Properties page, do the following:
a. Complete this page, referring to the following table for property descriptions.
b. When finished, click Next. The Select Common Library Files page appears.
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Mission time (hours)
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Indicates the operating time value in hours at which to calculate reliability. The default is 100. This property is shown when the Project is to include any of the following modules: FMEA, Maintainability, or Prediction. It sets the value for Mission Time in the Project’s Mission Profile file.
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Failure rate multiplier
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The units in which to display the failure rate. The default is 1000000 because several commonly used reliability prediction models base their calculations on failures per million (FPM) hours. However, you can change the units. For example, you might change the units to 1000000000 to base calculations on failures per billion hours, which is also known as FITS (failures in time). This property sets Failure Rate Multiplier under General in the System file properties. For more information, see General System File Properties.
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Enable Master Filter file
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Indicates whether to enable the Master Filter file so that all supplied filters are available for selection. For more information, see Filters. When this checkbox is selected (default), the Master Filter file is enabled.
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Enable Master List Library
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Indicates whether to enable the Master List Library file so that all of supplied lists are available for selection. For more information, see List Library Files. When this checkbox is selected (default), the Master List Library file is enabled.
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I have FRACAS Maintenance Log data
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Indicates whether to turn on the FRACAS Maintenance Log table in the System file. Maintenance logs are required only to compute MTTR (mean time to repair) values. This property is shown only when the Project includes the FRACAS module. When the checkbox is cleared (default), this table is not shown.
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I have FRACAS Operating Time data
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Indicates whether to turn on the FRACAS Operating Times table in the System file. Operating time records are required only if MTBF (mean time between failures) values are to be calculated. This property is shown only when the Project includes the FRACAS module. When the checkbox is cleared (default), this table is not shown.
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I have Problem data
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Indicates whether to turn on the Problems table in the System file. This checkbox, shown only when modules that support problems are licensed, is cleared by default. A problem provides a way of grouping certain types of module records together to form a parent/child relationship.
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I want to analyze more than one Configuration
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Indicates whether to turn on the Configurations table and related options in the System file so that multiple system tree configurations can be analyzed. When this checkbox is cleared (default), they are not shown because only one configuration exists. When it is selected (default), they are shown because multiple configurations can exist.
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FTA Calculation Type
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The default method for calculating fault trees for System files newly inserted in the Project. This property is shown only when the Project includes the FTA module. The selection you make here is also shown for > in the Project properties. For more information, see FTA Project Properties. Choices are:
• Time Dependent — When selected (default), standard time dependent analysis is used to determine availability or reliability.
• Lambda Tau — When selected, Lambda Tau analysis is used to determine availability or short-term reliability when component or system age is unknown or indeterminate.
• SAE ARP4754A and ARP4761 — When selected, the guidelines and methods in these SAE documents are used to assess the safety of civil airborne systems and equipment.
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4. On the Select Common Library Files page, specify which files to enable for use from all those in the Common Library. All files are selected by default.
Guidelines follow for selecting files.
◦ Selecting the top-most checkbox switches between selecting and clearing all files.
◦ Selecting the checkbox for a file type selects all files of that type.
You can clear the checkboxes for individual files so that they are not copied.
5. When finished, click Next. The Specify FMEA Setup page appears.
6. Indicate whether you want to set up the FMEA module now or later and click Next.
◦ If you selected the option for setting it up now, the Select FMEA Worksheet Type page appears. Go to step 7.
◦ If you selected the option for setting it up later, the Wizard Complete page appears. Go to step 8.
7. If the Select FMEA Worksheet Type page, do the following:
a. Select a template or click < I want to define my own FMEA type > at the bottom of the list and click Next.
The page that appears next depends on your selection. If you selected a template, the Select FMEA Modes Library page appears. Go to step 7.c.
If you selected < I want to define my own FMEA type > , the Select the FMEA Data Structure page appears so that you can select the FMEA data structure you want to use. For more information, see Hierarchical FMEA Data Structures.
b. If the Select the FMEA Data Structure page appears, select the structure you want to use and click Next. The Select FMEA Modes Library page appears.
c. On the Select FMEA Modes Library page, select a supplied file or click < I will create a Failure Modes Library later > at the bottom of the list if you want to create one later. For more information, see FMEA Modes Library Files.
d. Click Next. The Set FMEA Options page appears.
e. To roll up local effects to the mode of the next higher level item, select Enable FMEA roll up. Otherwise, leave this checkbox blank. For more information, see FMEA Roll Up and Building.
f. To show the FMEA Control Plans table and/or the FMEA DVPs table, select the appropriate checkboxes. For more information, see Control Plans and DVPs.
g. Click Next. The Wizard Complete page appears.
h. Click Finish to complete the Project creation process.