FRACAS
The new FRACAS Tool from
the ASENT Team provides the collaborative and intuitive approach of ASENT
to the Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) discipline.
Based on the Microsoft SQL Server database, this tool provides real
time data sharing and a robust centralized data repository capable of supporting
large numbers of users who are geographically dispersed.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 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 allow 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.
To complement
ASENT, Raytheon offers EAGLE
and AIMSS. These
products work together to provide total product supportability analysis
and documentation capabilities.
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