Transferring Data from XFRACAS to the Reliability Data Warehouse (RDW)

In Weibull++ and RGA, the Reliability Data Warehouse (RDW) allows you to view data from XFRACAS. Data in the RDW can be extracted to standard folios for data analysis. To bring data into the RDW, choose Project > Synthesis > XFRACAS to RDW.

Note: This command is available only in Weibull++ or RGA, and only when you are working with an enterprise database that has XFRACAS data in it, or when you are working with a standard database that has a connection to external XFRACAS tables defined.

If no XFRACAS entity has previously been selected for the current database, then you will be asked to select an entity to import from. Otherwise, the last selected entity will be used. Once an entity has been selected, the XFRACAS to RDW interface will open. You can select a different entity at any time by clicking the Change Entity icon on the control panel.

The Select Parts area displays all available parts in the XFRACAS entity, organized by system hierarchy. In this area, select the check box for each part that you want to pull incident (i.e., failure) data for.

Tip: You can configure the appearance of the window and filter the data in the table, as explained in RDW Interfaces: Configuration and Data Filtering Tools.

In Weibull++, the application will pull all incident data for the selected parts into the RDW data set. In RGA, you can use the Additional Settings area of the control panel to filter the data that you want to pull. You can decide:

Whether to include only system down events, or all types of events.
Whether to include only data for systems commissioned between specified dates, or data for all systems.

When you have selected all of the parts of interest and specified any relevant settings, click the Send to RDW icon on the control panel.

You will be prompted to name the data set. It is important to remember that each data set you create is a static record of the XFRACAS data at that point in time (i.e., the data set will never be updated). For this reason, you may want to name your data sets in a way that clearly indicates when they were created. When you click OK, the extraction process will begin. Depending on the amount of data that you are extracting, this may take some time.