Introduction to Availability Workbench

What's in Availability Workbench?

Availability Workbench (AWB) is the latest in a line of Isograph products to serve the Reliability and Maintenance community.

AWB integrates updated versions of the AvSim+ (Availability Simulation Software) and RCMCost (Reliability Centered Maintenance) products. These products have been used in industry since 1988. It also includes a brand-new life cycle cost analysis module.

Availability Workbench provides a fully integrated environment for:

• Reliability Centered Maintenance. Developing and maintaining a Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) program to optimize your reliability and maintenance strategy.
• Availability Simulation. Performing full system availability predictions taking into account complex dependencies on spares and other resources.
• Life Cycle Cost Analysis. Performing a Life Cycle Cost Analysis to calculate the expected costs of your system during its lifetime.
• Weibull Analysis. Analyzing historical failure data to model the failure characteristics of equipment.
• SAP Interface. The AWB SAP Interface allows you to transfer data between AWB and SAP.

How can Availability Workbench Help Me?

Availability Workbench can help answer questions such as:

• Is planned maintenance cost effective? How often should it be performed?
• What design improvements are cost and safety effective?
• What is the optimum level of spares to be held on site and at a depot?
• How can labor and equipment usage be improved?
• How can buffers best be employed to maintain capacity?
• How can risk be reduced?
• What are the likely life cycle costs?
• What is the best frequency for performing major overhauls?
• Is predictive maintenance worth doing?
• How do ageing assets affect life cycle costs?

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