ALD is one of the world leaders in conducting
failure reporting, analysis and corrective actions (
FRACAS) activities as well as developing and customizing
FRACAS software tools. Back in 1984, the first big projects contributing to the ALD solid reputation in the world reliability community were several failure data collection and reporting systems for the big
customers from aircraft and military industries. ALD established the failure data collection procedure, participated in actual data collecting and developed software for easy processing, analysis and reporting of accumulated data. Since then we've created, established and maintained FRACAS for dozens of customers widening the scope to telecommunication, semiconductors, software, chemical, automotive industries.
See also
FavoWeb FRACAS Software web site for more information about our web-based dynamic Failure Reporting System.
Failure Data Collecting & Processing
Failure data collection and analysis are closely connected with all
reliability activities. Failure data collecting should start at the early stages of systems design and go on through the entire product life cycle. Both the suppliers and the users must perform the detailed tracking and analysis of equipment malfunctions and failures. ALD FRACAS specialists establish the failure data collection procedure defining the most critical data types for each phase of the product life cycle and ensuring the comprehensive processing leading to corrective action and preventive maintenance. Timely failure data collecting, recording and processing with the help of the ALD software help to prevent failures from recurring and simplify and reduce maintenance tasks. Providing data for statistical analysis
Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) is a closed-loop feedback path in which the user and the supplier work together to collect, record, and analyze failures of both hardware and software data sets. The user captures predetermined types of data about all problems with a particular tool or software and submits the data to that supplier. A Failure Review Board (FRB) at the supplier site analyzes the failures, considering such factors as time, money, and engineering personnel. The resulting analysis identifies corrective actions that should be implemented and verified to prevent failures from recurring.
Trend Analysis
Accurate trend analysis is one of the most valuable outcomes of timely and well-defined FRACAS. ALD FRACAS experts will perform the trend analysis assessing historical reliability performance: MTBF, MTTR, availability, preventive maintenance, etc. Analysis of deficiencies patterns allows to define the failure trend, and finally contributes to prevention of failures and unnecessary maintenance activities.
Corrective Action
Our FRACAS experts will assist you in definition of
corrective actions based on the collected engineering data. The benefits of early implementation of corrective action become apparent both to the manufacturer as the failure occurrences decrease at the manufacturing line and in the field. Your organization will be able to fulfill the ISO 9000 requirements for the corrective action. Determination of the appropriate corrective action sequence is one of the main goals of failure data collecting process.
Field Reliability Analysis
The collection of field performance data is a crucial element in monitoring reliability. Field data collection is a vital part of a FRACAS process.
Field data collection should include:
· Incident/Failure technical info (part no. s/n, operation time/meters)
· Field MTBF ("real" failure rate) vs. Calculated MTBF (predicted failure rate)
ALD offers a user configurable system which easily adapts to organizations needs:
Customized workflow, data collection forms, user configurable output reports and much more.
