Reports

ReliaSoft’s Synthesis-enabled applications provide several options for performing customized analysis and generating reports that meet your specific presentation requirements.

Analysis Workbooks give you the ability to generate data and results, and to create customized plots and graphs to display these results. Each analysis workbook has over 140 built-in functions, including complete in-cell formula support and cell references. You can automatically link results from different analyses into one analysis workbook.

You may prefer to use this reporting tool if you want to have a spreadsheet-type report that includes absolute references to specific analyses. You may also prefer to use this reporting tool if you will be performing complex mathematical calculations.

Word Report Templates give you the ability to generate data and results and to create customized reports that use functionality that is similar to a Microsoft Word® document. This includes paragraph formatting, customized headers and footers, and imported images while incorporating the ability to insert functions and tables from the Function Wizard and plots that are created on-the-fly from the Plot Wizard.

You may prefer to use this reporting tool if you want to have a more polished, professional looking report that can easily be reused just by changing the referenced data sources.

General Spreadsheets can be inserted into any of the standard folios in Weibull++/ALTA. These provide the same spreadsheet capabilities that are available in the analysis workbook, but they are stored together with an analysis folio.

You may prefer to use this reporting tool if you are performing custom calculations based on the data sheets in the same folio and you wish to keep the analyses together with their source data.

Linking Multiple Data Sources with Different Time Units

If you are linking to multiple data sources in a report, and those data sources use different time units, you must be aware that the software displays each result in the units used by its data source. If you wish to compare the results from multiple data sources that use different units, there are three possible scenarios:

If the results are based on the fitted model, you can change the units for the source diagram in the Distribution Estimator.
If the results are based on the analytical or simulation results, direct comparison in the analysis workbook is not recommended. Because each block in the diagram has its own properties, conversion of units can be extremely difficult. Instead, you should create an overlay plot and use that to compare the diagrams.

Manually adjust the functions so they return results in the same units. For example, if you are using two data sources, one that uses "week" as the units and one that uses "workweek" as the units, and you want the results of both sets of calculations to display the B10 life in "workweek" units, you can adjust the function that returns the B10 life for the "week" data sheet by the ratio of the week/workweek System Base Unit (SBU) values. For example, if 168 is the SBU value for "week" and 120 is the SBU value for "workweek," you could add *(168/120) to the calculations that are based on the "week" data set in order to return the results in "workweeks" instead of "weeks" as shown next: =(TIMEATPF("RBD!RBD1",0.1))*(168/120).