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SuperSMITH®

SuperSMITH® software is engineered for reliability and statistical analysis for predicting life, safety, survivability, risk, cost and warranty claims, substantiation and accelerated testing by using Weibull, log normal, Crow-AMSAA, probit and Kaplan-Meier models.

SuperSMITH® Version 6.0 (September 2022)

SuperSMITH 6.0 is a major upgrade from the previous 5.0DT, with improved user interface, program organization, and added features.

User Interface.

Now with larger icons for touch screen. Improved keyboard options.
User customization for menu styles. and high resolution monitors.
Most tasks/menu items can now be selected with keyboard commands, as well as touch/mouse.
Start up size can be full or midsize
Better multi-monitor compatibility
Improved Print/Export menu
Improved Sample (Monte Carlo) menu for mixture sampling
Plot colors can be customized to any RGB color. Color schemes can be saved.

Program Organization

Additional language support (Now 15 languages!)
Visual and YBath now call Smithw.exe with flags, rather than stand alone programs. This reduces the hard drive space required for programs.
Common menu structure and plots among Weibull, Visual, and YBath
Easier to plot mixtures from the Weibull program
Major update in YBath analysis techniques.
Weibull Dice (For class exercise) now built in to main program

New Features

Logbook allows more detailed note taking, and saving intermediate reports and tables with your data file.
Updated Weibull Library allows searching a reference file by key words
Missing Data. Supplier didn't tell you how many parts they didn't ship that were out of limits, or cherry-picked from the middle? Now you can estimate how many pieces were in those missing areas. (Based on paper presented at RAMS 2021)

Log4J Vulnerability questions?

Log4J is a Java based API used with Apache web servers. SuperSMITH does not use Java and does not use Log4J. SuperSMITH does not send/receive data on networks, but can open and save files on network drives. Your system may use Log4J to track usage, but the potential vulnerability is with your system, not SuperSMITH.

SuperSMITH software is the only software compatible with the industry leading Weibull handbook written by Dr. Robert Abernethy.

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Fulton Findings

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SuperSMITH (TM) software is the only software compatible with the industry leading Weibull handbook written by Dr. Robert Abernethy.

Bathtub Software

One of the issues with real world data is that there may be mixtures of failure modes, suppliers, or duty cycles. Consider an automotive manufacturer tracking tire warranty. Customers drive different amounts each month, on different roads, and have different road hazards. We developed some of the first equations to model these mixtures, AND developed algorithms to fit these models to your data. We have also done extensive research on the PVE Goodness of Fit technology which is proprietary to SuperSMITH. Behind the scenes, we also work on improved algorithms to compute various items.

Software Inclusions

Weibull Analysis Includes

Data Problems and Deficiencies include

Plotting the data and interpreting the plot
Failure forecasting and prediction
Evaluating corrective action plans
Test substantiation for new designs with minimum cost
Maintenance planning and cost effective replacement strategies
Spare parts forecasting
Warranty analysis and support cost predictions
Controlling production processes
Calibration of complex design systems
Recommendations to management in response to service problems

Data Problems and Deficiencies include

Censored or suspended data
Mixtures of failure models
Nonzero time origin
Unknown ages for successful units
Extremely small samples (as small as one failure)
No failure data
Early data missing
Inspection data, both interval and probit

Failure Types Include

Math Modeling for System Analysis Include

Development, production and service
Mechanical, electronic, materials, and human failures
Nature; lightning strikes, foreign object damage, human error, woodpecker holes in power poles
Quality control, design deficiencies, defective material
Warranty claims

Math Modeling for System Analysis Include

Explicit models for independent failure modes
Monte Carlo simulation for dependent failure modes
Reliability growth, repairability, and management tracking using Crow-AMSAA models
Exponential, Binomial and Poisson models
Warranty claims models
Production process control models

Weibull Engineering (WE)

Reasons to model the variability of your measurements

1) WE produces better models with smaller amounts of input data.

2) WE provides quantitative results with numbers instead of results based only on opinions.

3) WE plots illustrate the variability graphically making such results easier to interpret.

4) WE with Monte Carlo simulation yields the best goodness-of-fit indicator for graphical solution.

5) WE makes decisions easier for reliability-centered-maintenance (RCM) and condition-based-monitoring (CBM)

6) WE extensions like Abernethy Risk and Barringer Process Reliability help with decision-making.

7) WE for test planning gives the lowest-cost and/or the shortest-schedule plan for design substantiation.

8) WE encompasses accelerated testing and step-stress testing to minimize inception-to-market time

9) WE can add upper and lower bounds on nominal results using confidence estimates.

10) WE enables comparison between different options for significant difference, like between new and old designs.

11) WE includes other models and other methods like reliability growth trending for program management.

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Fulton Findings software is engineered for reliability and statistical analysis for predicting life, safety, survivability, risk, cost and warranty claims, substantiation and accelerated testing by using Weibull, log normal, Crow-AMSAA, probit and Kaplan-Meier models.

Fulton Findings software is the only software compatible with the industry leading Weibull handbook written by Dr. Robert Abernethy.

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