At these trade shows and conferences, members of the Relex Software Team are available to address your questions and comments in person. Our Application Engineers are always ready to listen to your concerns, hear your challenges, and provide the reliability answers you need. We often provide enhanced training sessions on the latest version of Relex software, and host receptions and seminars to highlight new software features and capabilities.

International Safety System Conference – August 25-29, 2008

Relex Software will attend the 26^th International Safety System Conference (ISSC) held this year in Vancouver, British Columbia. The theme for this year’s ISSC is “The Next Generation of System Safety Professionals.” The ISSC is promoting this conference as “an invitation for professionals at relatively early stages of their careers to benefit from the wealth of system safety knowledge and experience acquired by the membership of the System Safety Society.”

Your Relex Software Team works with a wide range of customers, from those who are just starting out in reliability and risk analytics, to those who have become experts in the field. See us at the ISSC and discover how Relex Software can help you achieve reliability excellence throughout your entire reliability career.

For more information about the 2008 ISSC, visit their Web site at www.system-safety.org/~issc2008.

2008 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium Wrap-Up

The 54^th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) was held in Las Vegas, Nevada in January. The theme was "Dawn to Disk - Life Cycle Prescriptions.” .

The Relex Software Team was there to meet with customers and to present papers. The four presentations by Relex employees emphasized our efforts to improve reliability calculation speed and accuracy.

Reliability Analysis of k-out-of-n Load-Sharing Systems, by Suprasad V. Amari, PhD, CRE, and Robert Bergman, introduced an efficient method to compute reliability and mean life of large k-out-of-n load-sharing systems, with identical or non-identical components, following general failure distributions.

A Practical Method for Failure Analysis Using Incomplete Warranty Data, by Karen Mohan, Brad Cline, CRE and Jennifer Akers, CRE, examined how to determine failure characteristics of a product when component failure age is not known.

Availability Analysis of Systems with Suspended Animation, by Duane Huffman, CRE, Robert Bergman, Suprasad V. Amari, PhD, CRE, and Ming J. Zuo, PhD (University of Alberta), provided a simple and efficient method to compute the availability metrics of repairable systems subject to suspended animation.

Analysis of Multi-State Systems Using Multi-Valued Decision Disgrams, by Jennifer Akers, CRE, Robert Bergman, Suprasad V. Amari, PhD, CRE, Liudong Zing, PhD (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth), considered various reliability, availability and performance measures and proposed efficient algorithms for analysis of multi-state systems (MSS) using multi-valued decision diagrams.

2009 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium – Looking Ahead

The 2009 RAMS conference will be held from January 26-29, 2009 in Fort Worth, Texas. You can find more information at the RAMS web site.