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"The
Synthesis Platform provides the framework and underlying infrastructure
for all of
ReliaSoft's new
application software products, or “Synthesis Elements.”
It
provides a common set of methods and analyses, with related data
storage, synchronization and retrieval.
It
also manages user access rights to provide seamless integration and
communication between all of the application software elements." |
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The
Synthesis Platform Project
Reliability Engineering EvolvedSM
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The
History |
The “Synthesis Project”
is the result of a dedicated six year effort and the culmination of
ReliaSoft's
combined expertise over the last twenty years. In and by itself it
represents an R&D investment (in terms of both effort and capital) that
significantly exceeds the combined investments to date for
all versions
and all products.
While the last six years represented the bulk of the
R&D effort and investment, the beginnings of the Synthesis vision can be
traced all the way back to
ReliaSoft’s first days in 1992 with the “RelCAD” project. At the
time the vision’s goals and ambition significantly exceeded available
technology, infrastructure and resources. |
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The Reasoning |
- Half a century
ago, Reliability 1.0 set the foundations of modern Reliability
Engineering.
- Over the last 30
years, Reliability 2.0 ushered in the adoption, evolution and
expansion of individual Reliability Engineering tools and
methodologies.
As individual approaches and methodologies were adopted, the
majority of classical reliability engineering activities were
implemented as discrete, self-contained, sequential
and monolithic checkmark activities.
While this single task/activity mindset has served us well to date,
and based on the fact that each activity has some coherence, maximum
benefit cannot be adequately obtained from a single activity, or a
single disciplinary perspective, as it fails to leverage activity
overlaps and interdisciplinary expertise, consequently failing to
maximize the benefits and associated ROI.
- As Reliability
Engineering evolves and matures, so do the emphasis and demands
placed upon it by today’s geographically dispersed organizations.
These demands are further amplified by both the
“faster-better-cheaper” corporate mantra and the ever-increasing
complexity of today’s products.
To meet these demands, a paradigm shift to a new interdisciplinary
approach to Reliability Engineering is needed, one that leverages
and re-engineers the proven classical activities by employing
advances in information technology. This combination must maximize
the benefits of each activity and result in reduction of both
time-to-market and associated costs while simultaneously maximizing
the achieved reliability.
- Reliability 3.0:
Six decades into the computer revolution; four decades since the
invention of the microprocessor; and two decades into the modern
Internet… The technology to transform Reliability Engineering
through advanced software finally works and can be widely delivered
at a global scale.
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The
Vision |
Reliability 3.0 & Synthesis Vision Statement:
“We realize that reliability engineering encompasses multiple
activities, executed at different stages, by different subject
matter experts, throughout the product life cycle. Thus, the
right process and tools should:
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streamline and enhance the reliability activities across the
enterprise, as well as enable the management and reuse of
existing reliability knowledge;
- enable a
cohesive and multidisciplinary approach supported by tools,
tasks, activities and methodologies across the entire
enterprise;
- allow for
multiple levels of abstraction, providing each subject
matter expert, working with each tool, the freedom to apply
his expertise unconstrained, while enabling collaborators to
leverage and build upon this work in their areas of
expertise, which may be totally different than the leveraged
work.”
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The
Outcome
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The
Synthesis Platform ...
...Coming February 2012 |
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To learn more
or to be part of the
"Preview Release
Program"
contact
ReliaSoft |
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