RAMalloc - Management of RAM requirements

Very often planning mistakes at the very beginning of a product development will lead to tremendous financial losses at later stages of process. RAMalloc application aims to ease burden of a planner in this critical initial stage by forcing him to take in consideration fundamendal aspects of reliability and to gather right kind of information from customers. With help of this application RAM requirements derived from needs of customer and manufacturer can be allocated to system’s parts.

Steps when using RAMalloc

• Creation of a fault tree (ELMAS)
• Specification of TOP’s RAM requirements (repair time, availability, reliability)
• Definition of failure expenses (property, enviroment, human and business damage)
• Definition of system’s failure inflictors
• Definition of maintenance restrictions
• Simulation
• Evaluation of results which can lead to iteration or to a next allocation round (if needed).

The key benefits

• RAM requirements for subsystems based on TOP’s requirements
• No more unrealistic RAM requirements
• Increases cooperation between customers, manufacturers and subcontactors
• Gives edge for negotiation situations
• Problems concerning reliability can be solved before they even arise.