Powering digital risk twin analysis into 2025 with MADE 3.8.8 – What’s new?

Aerospace and defense systems are becoming progressively more complex, making it ever more challenging to understand how they will perform and to what extent that performance can be relied upon. 

To tackle these questions, you first need to understand how and why they could fail. And importantly – what the consequence of a failure would be? 

Meeting these safety and reliability demands requires high-fidelity risk analysis to back up the high-fidelity design processes, as well as to support the product or asset in operation. That means keeping up with fast evolving designs and circumstances to provide up-to-date and relevant data.  

The Digital Risk Twin boldly goes where spreadsheets and manual analysis are not enough

One thing is for sure – you need a digitalized approach. We call it the digital risk twin. Model-based RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) analysis can feed from the same single source of truth – an enterprise PLM system like Teamcenter containing a system model – as all the other design processes happening throughout an organization. This means that RAMS analysis becomes a core part of the digital thread, and in turn, the DNA of your product. 

The more mission-critical, the more RAMS is critical 

Where operational availability and the cost of ownership are critical determinants of success, organizations developing and operating complex, safety- or mission-critical systems understand the importance of the RAMS function and are embracing the Digital Risk Twin approach. 

Digital transformation will impact the RAMS processes drastically and can definitely have a high impact to improving the challenges of today methods and tools: dealing with the increased product complexity, distributed organizations, digitizing the domain knowledge and reducing drastically the total cost of ownership.  

What’s new in MADE 3.8.8 for model-based RAMS? 

This release introduces significant upgrades and enhancements across multiple modules, particularly focusing on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety analysis capabilities. Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) processes include updates to reflect industry practices and improve user experience. New Dedicated Hazard Analysis features 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 supporting 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. 

The low-down 

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

Power up your Digital Risk Twin – download MADE 3.8.8 today

Customers can start using the latest version right away by heading over to Siemens Support Center, where you will find downloads, documentation and knowledgebase articles, plus other learning resources.