About Results of a System Reliability Analysis

By reviewing the results of a System Reliability Analysis, you will be able to answer questions such as:

• Which Scenario has the lowest overall cost associated with it?
• Which Scenario is the least reliable?
• Which Scenario has the highest failure rate?
• Which Actions were successful in mitigating risk and reducing cost?
• How many times were Resources used?
• How much did the Resources cost?
• For how long were the Resources used?
• How many times was an Action required?

After reviewing the results of a System Reliability Analysis, you can identify which Scenario consistently provides the best reliability and produces the least amount of downtime and cost. Based upon the results, you might decide to complete any of the following steps:

• Refine the Scenarios by modifying the analysis parameters or components within the analysis or create new components to further analyze reliability and costs.
• Create Recommendations to implement changes to the current physical system to align it with the most desirable Scenario.

The Summary tab on the System Reliability page provides an overview of the costs and Resource statistics for the simulation using graphs on the following tabs:

• Total Cost
• Total Cost Trend
• Annual Action Cost
• Action Cost Trend
• Resource Occurrence
• Resource Time
• Resource Cost

The simulation results are also presented in more detail in the following sections, which are used to organize the data in the Simulation Results workspace:

• Elements section
• Actions section
• Resources section

By selecting a cell in the grid in the above sections, you can view more detailed information in the following graphs:

• Histogram plot
• Trend plot
• Impact plot