The graphical, intuitive nature of the tool is extended to allow you to store memos, email, pictures, drawings and other graphics with failure reports and also with hardware or software items! You can store this data in the database and any other authorized user for the project can view or download the graphical or text data to a file. A simple Drag and Drop approach make chaining events or rearranging chains simple and straight forward.

The unique capability to build a hardware or software inventory from the failure reports as they are recorded means that there is no need to load data before you use the tool. You only need to manage the hardware or software items that you are interested in.

The recently added Data Analysis function allows you to perform Weibull Data Analysis and quickly perform trade-offs associated with Warranty Analysis. You can also perform Reliability Growth Testing using Duane or AMSAA plots.

Since many programs have unique, project specific requirements, ASENT's FRACAS tool allows you to enter as many user defined fields as you need. This gives you the flexibility to easily manage additional descriptions or data over and above the core FRACAS data common to all programs.

The extensive reporting capability of the ASENT FRACAS tool provides unmatched flexibility, providing report outputs in Excel and Word format. Summary reports containing information on many failure reports or in-depth reports for a single failure report are available. The reports make it simple to generate a complete life history on any piece of equipment or software!

The ASENT FRACAS Tool provides you the capability to build a list of team members who will be conducting failure investigation and maintains a complete history of the assigned actions, and their results with each failure report. The notification of actions is automated, allowing you to notify team members by email, using your chosen email tool, with a few clicks of the mouse. The Actionee report allows you to quickly identify how many action items are open and who has open action items in addition to what the open action items are.

ASENT is coupled with Microsoft’s® SQL Server® to deliver more database horsepower than other R&M tools on the market. The client/server architecture was specifically designed to handle reams of program data, and allow multiple users concurrent access to the same project data. Analyses can be performed in parallel, even when teammates are geographically dispersed, and designers can retrieve information immediately after it is entered. ASENT eliminates the hassle of transferring files and combining data and ensures you are always working with the current design. In addition to offering extensive report formats and a user-defined reporting capability, ASENT’s open architecture allows you to quickly create customized reports. 

IT Departments will be pleased with the power and flexibility that the ASENT FRACAS tool provides. It can be installed either as a thick client or a thin client. The thin client alternative, loaded on Citrix, greatly reduces the need to install client software, and provides web access for end users

To complement ASENT, Raytheon offers EAGLE and AIMSS. These products work together to provide total product supportability analysis and documentation capabilities.