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Running MADe Headless: Automating the Model Without the GUI

Excel Import - Data Structure
Failure Injection and Failure Propagation
How to reuse existing Maintenance Actions for other items
Sharing MADE Environments Library

How to Find and Replace Data Values in Bulk

Access to MADE Release Notes
FAQs for MADE 3.8.9 Model-based RCM
FAQs for MADE compatibility with Windows 7
Fundamentals of Failure Diagrams in MADE
How to change default measurement unit in MADE?
How to create and edit criticality profiles in MADE?
How to create New Sensor Library?
How to generate Safety and Reliability charts in MADE?
How to import Excel System Structure in MADE?
How to use the Load from Library feature?
Managing Failure Diagrams: Override Failure Diagrams
System element definitions
Understanding and Performing Hazard Analysis in MADE 3.8.9

Getting Started

Create and Use Custom Data Libraries in MADE
How to create new project in MADE?
How to import CAD files into MADE?
How to model system functions in MADE?
How to set up Environmental Profiles in MADE?
Introduction to Functional Modeling
MADE Download from Siemens Support Center
MADE Installation Instructions
Syncing MADE Libraries with other Users

How to activate MADE license offline?
How to manage Zentitle node-locked licenses in MADE?
MADE License Activation
New MADE 3.9.1 Update Licensing

10 Advanced Properties
11 Failure Analysis
12 Causal Connections
13 Reporting
14 Find & Replace
15 Troubleshooting
16 Appendices
2 Workflow to Create Import Configurations
3 FMEA Data Configuration
3 MADE Modeling Overview
3 Modeling Workflow for Bond Graph Simulation
3 Modeling Workflow for FCM Simulation
3 System Creation
3. Back-Fit Reliability-Centered Maintenance
3. Editing & Assigning Criticality
3. Editing Reliability Parameters
3. Sensor Library
3.1 Criticality Profile Editor
3.2 Editing Criticality in the Criticality Editor
3.2 Example 1: Source File Contains Items and Failure Mode Information in One Sheet
3.3 NAVSEA Roadmap
3.3.2 Failure Assessment
3.3.3 Classification
3.3.5 Failure Consequences
3.3.8 Proposed Maintenance
3.4 Maintenance Association
3.6 Back-Fit RCM Report Structure
3.7 Generate FCM Simulations & Analyses (Step 10)
4 Accessing the Reliability Allocation Editor
4 Basic Bond Graph Elements
4 Differences Between FCM & Bond Graph Modeling
4 FCM Diagram
4 Item Functions
4 Maintenance Data Configuration
4 Mission Profile & Grouping Work Through
4 Redundancy in Response Simulation
4 Relevant Editors and Windows
4 Synchronization of Maintenance Information
4. Component & Subsystem Test Points
4. Criticality Reports
4. RBD Analysis
4. Sensor Set Analysis
4.1 Maintenance Type Terminology
4.10 Complete Mission Success Metrics Page (Step 9)
4.10 Trade Study
4.14 Application Preferences
4.2 Accessibility
4.2 Example 1: Maintenance Data Is Present in Different Worksheets
4.3 System Model Structure for Bond Graph Simulations
4.4 Analysis Overview
4.4 Model Control & Back-Effects in Bond Graphs
4.5 Automated Generation of Sensor Sets
4.5 Significant Item Search
4.6 Automated Diagnostic Analysis
4.6 Mission Context
4.6.5 Sensor Sets Analysis Page
4.6.7 Sensor Allocation Page
4.6.9 Diagnostic Sets Page
4.7 Complete Specialized Phases Page (Step 6)
4.7 Functional Failure Analysis
4.7 User-defined Diagnostic Analysis
4.8 Failure Mode Assessment
4.9 Maintenance Tasks
5 Mission Profile Definition Reports
5 Redundancy in FMECA Reporting
5 Response Simulation and Failure Propagation
5 When to Use FCM/Bond Graph Modeling Techniques
5. Appendix
5. Critical Item Analysis
5. Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
5. MCE Analysis Worked Example
5. Sensor Set Details Report
6 Thresholding
6 Worked Example
6. Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
7 Analysis Configuration Page
7 Component Sub-models (Parts, Part-Pairs)
7 FCM Properties in MADE
8 Summary of Key Points for FCM in MADE
8 System Connections
9 Failure Diagrams
9.3 Create Part Failure Diagrams
Appendix A: Equation Sets for Various Engineering Domains
Appendix B: Bond Modeling for Various Engineering Domains
Back-Fit RCM User Guide
Bond Graph & FCM Comparison User Guide — Nomenclature and Introduction
CAD Import User Guide
Conclusion: Using MADE
Course Introduction: MADE Training
Diagnostic Analysis
Failure Rate Prediction User Guide
Failure Simulation and Responses User Guide — Introduction and Workflow
FCM Modeling Background User Guide — Concepts and Application
Feedback Connections User Guide
Import Configuration User Guide — Introduction and Data Field Reference
Load from Library User Guide
MADE Module User Manual — Functional Modeling & Failure Definition
MADE Requirements import template schema
Maintenance Cost Estimate (MCE) User Guide
Maintenance Import Guide — Background and Process Flow
Mission Profile Definition User Guide — Nomenclature, Introduction, and Workflow
Model-Based RCM: Nomenclature and Introduction
Model-Based RCM: Workflows and Editor Overview
Modeling for FCM Simulation User Guide — Nomenclature and Introduction
Modeling Redundancy User Guide — Introduction and Redundancy in RBD Analysis
Nomenclature and Introduction (Modeling for Bond Graph Simulation User Guide)
PHM Module Background User Guide
PHM Module User Manual: Nomenclature and Introduction
RAM Module User Manual: Nomenclature and Introduction
Reliability Allocation User Guide — Introduction and Workflows
Session 1 Overview: MADE Modeling
Session 1.1: Navigation
Session 1.2: Project Creation
Session 1.3: Environment Profiles
Session 1.4: Mission Profile Definition (Solution-Independent)
Session 1.5: Functional Modeling (Functional Hazards Assessment)
Session 1.6: Requirements Verification Tool
Session 1.7: System Modeling (Logical & Physical)
Session 1.8: System Modeling (Functions)
Session 1.9: MADE Library (incl. Load from Library)
Session 2 Overview: Failure Simulation
Session 2.1: Annotations
Session 2.2: Failure Simulation
Session 2.3: Mission Profile & Groups
Session 2.4: Failure Analysis
Session 2.5: Hazard Analysis
Session 2.6: Features & Characteristics
Session 3 Overview: Safety Analyses
Session 3.1: FMEA
Session 3.2: Criticality Analysis
Session 3.3: Control Measures
Session 3.4: Critical Item Analysis
Session 3.5: Failure Conditions (FHA)
Session 3.6: Common Mode Analysis (CMA)
Session 3.7: Functional Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
Session 4.1: Reliability Block Diagram
Session 4.2: Reliability Allocation
Session 4.3: Reliability Editing
Session 4.4: Failure Rate Prediction
Session 4.5: Markov Analysis
Session 4.6: Hardware Fault Tree Analysis (HFTA)
Session 5.1: Maintenance Cost Estimates
Session 5.2: Maintenance Actions
Session 5.3: Reliability Centered Maintenance
Session 5.4: Back-Fit RCM
Session 6.1: Sensor Library
Session 6.2: Test Points
Session 6.3: Automated Diagnostic Analysis
Session 6.4: User-Defined Diagnostic Analysis
Session 6.5: Modeling for PHM and Additional Features
SRA Module User Manual: Nomenclature and Introduction
Step 6: Complete the Mapping to Import FMEA Information

FFIP Applied: Electrical Power System and Nuclear Power Plant Case Studies
FFIP: The Functional Failure Identification and Propagation Framework
How MADe Implements the Functional Basis: Primary-Source Evidence
How MADE's flow failure-mode bands work
MADE complete Flow Taxonomy: Energy
MADE complete Flow Taxonomy: Material
MADE complete Flow Taxonomy: Signal
MADE complete Function Taxonomy
MADE Standardized Taxonomy — live UI tree screenshots
MADe taxonomy mentions in PHM Technology marketing one-pagers
MADE videos — transcript/caption availability check
MADE's Functional Taxonomy is based on the academic "Functional Basis" ontology
PHM Technology and the MADe Suite: Company History and Product Architecture
Re-check: Failure Injection and Failure Propagation (KB000132713)
Taxonomy hunt — search summary and confirmed gaps
The Functional Basis: Reconciled Function and Flow Taxonomy (Hirtz et al. 2002)

Functional Hazard Assessment and FMECA
MADE Digital Risk Twin
MADE for Aerospace Safety and Reliability
Model-based FMEA
Model-based RBD

WF01: Install MADE Software
WF02: Configure New MADE Project
WF03: Create FBD Model for Bond Simulations
WF04: Create FBD Model for FCM Simulations
WF05: Create Detailed FBD Model
WF06: Create Failure Diagram
WF07: Generate Response Paths
WF08: Conduct Failure Simulation
WF09: Perform Criticality Editing
WF10: Conduct FMECA / FMEA
WF11: Create Mission Profiles
WF12: Conduct Reliability Allocation
WF13: Assign Reliability Values
WF14: Conduct RBD Analysis
WF15: Conduct Critical Item Analysis
WF16: Generate Model-based Functional Fault Tree Analysis
WF17: Generate Hardware Fault Tree Analysis
WF18: Create Maintenance Cost Estimate (MCE)
WF19: Prepare Model-based RCM Analysis
WF20: Perform Model-based RCM Analysis
WF21: Classify Maintenance Action (Back-Fit RCM)
WF22: Assess Maintenance Action (Back-Fit RCM)
WF23: Define Test Point
WF24: Generate Automated Sensor Sets
WF25: Generate User-defined Sensor Sets
WF26: Set Annotations Policy
WF27: Capture Model Knowledge
WF28: Update Data Quality Index (DQI)
WF29: Search System Model
WF30: Conduct Find & Replace
WF31: Create MADE Library
WF32: Set Organization Details
WF33: Assign Maintenance Action
WF34: Create User-defined Sensor Library & Sensors
WF35: Apply Failure Rate Prediction (FRP)
WF36: Create Functional Diagram
WF37: Prepare Functional Hazard Assessment
WF38: Conduct Markov Analysis
WF39: Perform Common Mode Analysis (CMA)
WF40: Create User-defined FTA
WF41: Entering Cycle Based Reliability Values
WF42: Managing a Technical Budget
WF43: Set the Requirement Import Configuration
WF44: Importing New Requirements
WF45: Synchronizing Requirements
WF46: Requirements Verification
WF47: MADE API Import
WF48: MADE Model API Export
WF49: MADE Analysis API Export Workflow
WF50: Import CAD Files
WF51: Import Mission Profiles
WF52: Create RBD model
WF53: Creating Mirror Blocks Configuration in RBD
WF54: Mean Time Between Unplanned Maintenance (MTBUM)
WF55: Mean Time Between Critical Failure (MTBCF)
WF56: Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
WF57: License Activation - Cloud
WF59: License Activation - FlexLM Local Server
WF60: License Offline Activation
WF61: Perform Functional Hazard Assessment
WF62: FHA Assumptions
WF63: FHA Control Measures
WF64: FHA Safety Criteria
WF65: FHA Substantiation Actions
WF66: Develop Control Measures
WF67: Define Criticality Profile
WF68: Link FHA Functions to System Model
WF69: Create Mission Profile Groups
WF70: License Deactivation
WF71: Create Hazard Diagram
WF72: Perform System Hazard Analysis
WF73: Perform System Software Hazard Analysis
WF74: Model-based RCM Analysis
WF75: Create a Model-based RCM analysis
WF76: Create versions of a Model-based RCM analysis
WF77: Create FMEA Import Configuration
WF78: Create Maintenance Action Import Configuration
WF79: Perform Load from Library

Automation

Running MADe Headless: Automating the Model Without the GUI — MADE Knowledge Base > Automation

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