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 (shown below), to the context-sensitive menu for Containers, and to the Model| Insert menu on the menu bar:
•Pressing the RL Element button in the Element toolbar provides access to a menu for inserting a RL Module element:
•The FailureModes array label set is added to the drop-down lists available when defining the output attributes for an element:
This set of array labels 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:
