Lambda Predict Features: Building System Configurations and Using Libraries

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Lambda Predict
Standards Based Reliability Prediction Software

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Easy to Build System Configurations

Build Simple or Complex System Configurations
The first step in performing a standards based reliability prediction analysis in Lambda Predict is to build a system configuration that represents your product. This may be a simple assembly with just a few components or a large system with thousands of components organized into multiple subsystems, subsubsystems, etc.

Lambda Predict makes it easy to build system configurations by adding blocks and components into a flexible hierarchical tree. The building blocks for your system configurations include:

Components represent individual items (such as fuses, capacitors, valves, springs, etc.) with properties that are used to calculate Failure Rate, MTBF and other results.
- External Components allow you to include parts that are not addressed in the reliability prediction standard.
Blocks represent groups of blocks and/or components in the next lower level of the system configuration, allowing you to represent multiple subsystems, subsubsystems, etc. in a multilevel system configuration.
Linked Blocks represent the characteristics of other blocks or components, allowing you to update identical parts with a single action.

In addition, Lambda Predict provides specialized blocks to meet the specific analysis requirements for each particular standard. For example, pre-defined pump, motor and other assemblies are available in an NSWC analysis, Plated Through or Surface Mount PCBs in MIL-217, etc.

You can work with multiple projects and systems simultaneously, which provides an easy way to copy or link information among projects.

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Re-Use Existing Information to Save Time and Ensure Consistency
Lambda Predict provides a number of time-saving features that allow you to quickly leverage existing information for use in new analyses.

You can easily copy/paste or drag/drop blocks and components from one analysis to another.
Linked Blocks allow you to automatically update identical parts with a single action.
The Global Edit feature allows you to automatically change stress, temperature and/or environmental parameters for blocks and components in a MIL-217 analysis.
You can set default properties for each type of component to fit your particular application, which saves time on data entry for future analyses.

Use Pre-Defined Component Libraries and/or Build Your Own

Extensive Collection of Component Libraries
Lambda Predict comes with an extensive collection of component libraries with information obtained from manufacturer's product spec sheets and a variety of other sources for over 240,000 components. Available libraries include:

MIL-M-38510 - over 2,800 integrated circuits for use in MIL-217 and Bellcore analyses.
NPRD-95 - over 11,700 non-electric (electromechanical) components for use in MIL-217, Bellcore, NSWC, RDF and 299B analyses.
Capacitors - over 27,000 capacitors (organized by manufacturer) for use in MIL-217 and Bellcore analyses.
Diodes - over 36,000 diodes (organized by manufacturer) for use in MIL-217 and Bellcore analyses.
Resistors - over 40,000 resistors (organized by manufacturer) for use in MIL-217 and Bellcore analyses.
Coils - over 59,500 coils (organized by manufacturer) for use in MIL-217 and Bellcore analyses.
Digital Integrated Circuits - over 63,000 digital integrated circuits (organized by manufacturer) for use in MIL-217 and Bellcore analyses.

Some libraries are distributed free with the software and others are available for purchase from ReliaSoft.

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In addition, you can build and distribute your own custom libraries to share knowledge and save data entry time.

Library Manager and Library Browse Utilities Facilitate Part Lookup
Lambda Predict’s Library Manager allows you to activate one or many libraries that contain component data that you will need for your analyses, without taking up space on your desktop. When libraries are loaded, they are available for part number searches to quickly define component properties as you build a system configuration. If you are importing data from an outside data source, these part number lookups can even be performed automatically upon import!

The integrated Library Browse utility allows you to filter the components in one or more libraries by Category, Part Number and/or Description so that you can easily find the pre-defined component that will be imported into your current analysis.

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