What Does the Reliability Module Add to the GoldSim User Interface?

The Reliability Module is a program extension to the GoldSim simulation framework. As such, it simply adds some additional features to the user interface. The user interface components which the Reliability Module adds can be summarized as follows:

• An additional item, Reliability, is added to the context-sensitive (right-click) menu in the graphics pane The primary portion of the GoldSim interface, where the graphical depiction of the model is shown. (shown below), to the context-sensitive menu for Containers, and to the Model| Insert menu on the menu bar A bar at the top of the GoldSim interface that provides access to menus from which nearly any GoldSim operation can be carried out.:
  
  
• Pressing the RL Element button in the Element toolbar provides access to a menu for inserting a RL Module element:
  
  
• The “FailureModes” array A collection of variables that share common output attributes and can be manipulated in GoldSim elements or input expressions. label set is added to the drop-down lists available when defining the output attributes Three properties of an element's output that determine the kinds of inputs to which it can be linked: type, order and dimensions. for an element:
  
  
  This set of array labels A collection of labels identifying the items of an array. is indexed from 1 to 10 (and cannot be edited), and is used to reference failure modes.
• A Reliability tab is added to the Options dialog (accessed via Model | Options) for defining options which are specific to the Reliability Module: