Benchmarking

Company Product Who Demo Internet Reference

DSE Designsafe x www.designsafe.com

Dyadem PHA-Pro software S x www.dyadem.com

Dyadem FMEA for Medical Devices S x www.dyadem.com

Qualisoft QFD Designer S x www.qualisoft.comZurich Entreprises S www.zurichbusiness.chLaidler Associate S www.laider.co.ukSHE Professional 6 S www.lexware.co.ukEcoRisk S www.experton.comEnviroWin Software S www.environwin.com

SAM 2000 V http://www.yse-ltd.co.uk/

Design master V www.cyberspy.comAxcom V www.geocities.comHaSARD V www.trafalgarcomputers.comergosystem (4 software) V www.ergosystems.co.ukfm global V www.fmglobal.com/products_services/risk_services.html

York Software Engineering Ltd (England)

safety director V x www.entech-inc.com/software/default.htm

Hazman express S x www.arcada.comChem master 2000 V www.ehsi.com/chem_master_2000.htmPHA 2000 V www.tnsafety.comSHE for windows V www.safe-and-sound.com/index.htmHAZARD V www.cd-rom-guide.com/cdprod1/cdhrec/010/202.shtmlMETAPRIME V www.software-guide.com/cdprod1/swhrec/011/412.shtml

Jerry Fitzgerald & Associates RANK-IT(R) V www.software-guide.com/cdprod1/swhrec/015/085.shtmlSETS V www.software-guide.com/cdprod1/swhrec/016/317.shtml

Sydvest Software S x www.sydvest.com

ENTECH Environnemental Technologie

CARA - Fault Tree 2 versions: a light and a professional professional version is treated here

Fault Tree Plus - version 9 S x www.isograph.com/faulttree.htm

Isograph Reliability workbench S x www.isograph.com/workbench.htm

Isograph Hazop plus S x www.isograph.com/hazop.htm

Hazop version 4.0 V x http://www.ltss.demon.co.uk/

Isograph note: these softwares were previously distributed by Item Software but the contract will be over after may 12th.

Lihou Technical software Service 150 Shenley Fields RoadSelly OakBirmingham B29 5BTUnited Kingdom Telephone:+44 (0)121-475-7581Facsimile:+44 (0)121-475-0446

Contact & Function Quick description

Bruce Main, president

sam@yse-ltd.co.uk

guide to run a task-based safety analysis technique for eliminating and controlling hazards based on Hazard analysis and risk assessment

authorize-me@dyadem.com info@dyadem.com

authorize-me@dyadem.com info@dyadem.com

to examine the failure modes of medical devices designed with the needs of the medical device industry in mind based on FMEA

Critical system software, using the Goal Structuring Notation (a development by the University of York). Software including many safety analysis tools like: HAZOP, FMEA, FFA, ETA. Checklist of hazzard regarding the IEC 61508 norm

software@entech-inc.com

Ragnar.Aaro@sydvest.com (Norway)

Proactive Safety Software designed around the concept of preventing Incidents before they happen, Perform Job Safety Analysis (JSA), track Incidents and Causes, generate regulatory compliance reports - OSHA 101/200. Analyze incidents through Charts and more.. Developped for analysing safety at work and not the safety of a design. Analysed hazards relatived to one person.

Safety software based on Fault Tree analysis, build the fault tree consisting of logical gates and input events, and entering data (identifiers, descriptive text as well as reliability data). After construction of the fault tree possibility to run different analyses, e.g. calculations of mean time to failure (MTTF), unavailability, survival probability, measures of reliability importance and uncertainty analysis.

sales@isograph.com

sales@isograph.com

mike.lihou@ltss.demon.co.uk

sales@isograph.com support@isograph.com

A fully interactive graphics and analysis program for performing probabilistic risk assessment using integrated fault tree, event tree and Markov analyses.

integrated environment for performing Reliability Prediction, Failure Mode Effect and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) and Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) analysis.

provides an easy method of customising, recording, managing, and reporting a HAZop study

program for the management of Hazard and Operability Studies and other similar safety-related reviews. Allowed to make the safety study a team work. Using network technology.

System requirements Easiness of learning

Win95 or NT 4.0 easy (30 minutes)

486 MP with 8 MB of memory Win95 or NT 4.0 8 MB available on HD

very friendly on line help need to have acrobat reader (but possibility to download it) guide for creating new document

Win95/98 or NT 32 MB of RAM 40 MB of disk space

Easy to learn with a good help composed of examples.

MS DOS

8 MB of memory 30 MB of disk space VGA monitor Windows 3.1 or Dos 5.0

Windows 9x/NT or Windows 2000, 486DX66 minimum Pentium recommended, 12 Mb RAM minimum10 Mb free disk spaceAvailable on CD or disks

Provides a quick tour to help drawind the first tree need to be a specialist to clearly understand how works the probability hard to understand exactly what they mean wit their failure data (lambda ?)

Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT Very good demonstration available

Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000 or NT 16-32 MB of RAM (64 MB of RAM recommended)

Online help including key word search Automatically positions gates and events as the tree is constructed Not a tool adapted to everyone due to its complexity Markov analysis requires a certain knowledge Need to be a specialist to use the probability calculation

Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000 or NT 16-32 MB of RAM (64 MB of RAM recommended) Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000 or NT 16-32 MB of RAM (64 MB of RAM recommended)

Easiness of use Cost

good $ 995 per licence

$ 35 500 per site license

per licence

Undo/redo, find/replace, check spelling direct links to the dyadem website for help and updatecopying support within files, between files and across different FMEA studies timed backup and auto recovery features to avoid loss of data

Contains 4 analysis tools, which can be put in interaction. Contain a checklist of hazard coming from the IEC 61508 norm, and can be customized with experience or to a specific field of activity.

$104.95 License

Windows based software, easy to use. Easy to use, but all the functionalities are separated, and can't be printed on a same report. Each functionalities are open in a new window.

large choice of printing; support hot line online help possibility to have two levels of user: standard and expert

full version $4,667 light version $1,600 special offer for more than one version educational version available upgrade : 30-50% of the sales price of the tool support agreement (upgrades, 5 man-hours / year of phone assistance): 25% of tool prices / year

Seems to be very easy to use, with some library wich can be very helpful.

Provides a Report Generator, which allows the user to design customised text reports and graphs as well as selecting standard reports provided with the application. Cut/copy/paste for tree symbols Allows users to construct parts of a project independently and later append the data into a single project. FTA: calculates parameters such as unavaibility, unreliabilty, downtime, and failure frequency ETA: supports multiple branches

single $6,895.00 2nd $4,137.00 3rd+ $2,758.00

$5,995.00 4 Modules - single $7,795.00 5 Modules - single $9,495.00

The user input general information about the study with help of standard lists of guidewords and parameters Possibility to add guidewords or parameters to customize the study

single $1,985.00 2nd $1,191.00 3rd+ $794.00

14.000 $ for a single version. There is a possibility to have a netwok version but you have to buy a license per computer. An Educationnal rebate can be made.

Interface License key

need a site key given with site code

friendly just click on box to choose a category

Screen divided in 2 parts * Workspace as a tree, so easy to manage with many files (same division for each analysis -adminsitrative:general info on actors of analyse, used method, schedule of meetings… -components: description of each items, with their function, hazards they are creating, how to solve them-recommandation, actions taken to solve troubles… * Folders (admini, compo, items, worksheet, recommand) with their detailspossibility to get into analyse either with tree or folders

open a window per tree and per report sometimes not very clear to know where to find a thing The report window is a text editor (format RTF)that can be customised or send to a printer

Based on Microsoft database engine

Using windows technology

Standard Windows dialogs, menus and controls One folder for FTA, ETA, and Markov Analysis For each method, a row of specific buttons is available Markov analysis are made on a separate file that can be added after to the common file

site/code key (contact with licence@isograph.com)

Software Licensing

to have the software on more than one pc, need to buy additional license long process to transfer the software license from one computer to another impossible to transfert the software license to a computer at a different site

Single user or network version

single or network version

single or need to buy more version

single or need to buy more

Effectiveness Package

possibility to provide seminar

Seems to be effective, and uses more than one safety analysis method.

guide, just give you what you give him provide large choice of users, hazards… analyze can be too wide because of all the choice

Doesn't provide example of components or item, so must be more specialist need to know perfectly the product, risk of forgotten smthing, need great brainstorming resultats more acurate * administratif: involved more human point (session, team members, attendance) * high description of components and items (ID, function, drawing…), history of product possible to follow evolution of action against hazards

Provide safety traning.

Provides easy access to historic data by storing information in the form of database.Capable of analyzing safety data by means of charts, queries, reports.The demo is customized for a petrol and oil industry. The result of the job safety analysis is only the result of a former brainstorming. There isn't any assessment of the risks. Propose a useful list of protectives equipments. Use a database reporting former incidents.

can create great tree, however the failure data don't appear very clearly option to verify the exactitude of the tree Up to 50 symbols on each page (i.e. AND/OR-gates, Input events, ...)Up to 12 inputs to each gateUp to 200 fault tree pagesUp to 1 000 unique Input events totallyUp to 1 000 unique gates totallyUp to 800 Transfer symbols (i.e. include references to max. 800 fault tree pages totally within one fault tree file). If one fault tree page is referred several times, this will count as several references.Up to 5 500 cut sets.Up to 32 000 Input events totally in all cut sets.

offer courses in reliability theory and fault tree analysis training up to 5 persons for $134

Provides a Report Generator, which allows the user to design customised text reports and graphs as well as selecting standard reports provided with the application. Option to check the tree Max gate: 60 Max event: 100 Max of branches: 20,000 Max of event tree: 500 Max of colums: 32

Every Hazop study information transferred to the database can be filtered, sorted and reported in a user defined form. Hazop study can include risk ranking with likelihood and consequence (see matrix)

Provide a library of Key word, and you can create your own library. The primary and secondary Keyword can be assess using the notions of severity, frequency. A risk rating derives from thhis assessment. The software strickly follows the flowchart of a HAZOP study. A deviation form is create for each deviation, inclluding the causes, consequences of the deviation and the action requested (a cause and a failure rate darabase is provided). This software and the way that teamate can communicate betwee each other, is very helpfull for a team work

Import / export Languages Communication

export in excel format English

English

Links can be made to microsoft word for having a writing paper English

Riskworld

exchange possible with Microsoft office, Lotus 1-2-3 using dbase, ascii format export document as an html document

Reports can be printed out. English

English

English

Import/export of data into Microsoft Office via formatted text files ; Analysis reports exported as RTF-files (Rich Text Format) Fault tree graphics exported via the clip board (Windows Metafile) Graphical analysis results exported via the Windows clip board (Bitmap Format) Import of fault tree files from previous versions (CARA-CAFTAN version)

English

English

Links to Microsoft Office English

Adobe® Acrobat® software, Microsoft Word

Includes the latest version of the report generator and import/export wizard. Standard reports containing tabular data, graphs or diagrams. Print out the reports directly or export them to a Rich Text Format file that can be read by many software packages (Microsoft) Copy and paste the graphics into other windows appication

English, French, German, with dictionnary and spell checking

Very good website, in which the explain in few points the process of the analysis. Description of the software and its features.

Help for compliance, safety standards

get the CE Mark, with responding to EN 1050

ISO standards EN 1441 Mil Std 1629a IEC Standards

OSHA 101/200

supports the most commonly used symbol set

FMECA: MIL-STD-1629 RBD: RBD

flexible tool which allows customization according to industry and company standards

Doesn't rspond to any norms or standard. This software is very flexible. Risk calculation: Severity minus frequency

Specific things Field of activity

use matrix of army safety any kind, can be customized

medical

I am investigating the GSN method.

risk matrix can be customized possible to see initial conditions and after work include or view drawings recorded to the analysis, put note on each of the worksheet ability to calculate a variety of statistics for the severity, occurrence, detectability and RPN data in your document

Software safety. Customers as aerospace, defence, transport, engineering

Administrator system, the reports can be read only by user and modify by administrators. I think this software is not a direct competitor of designsafe.

Oil and petroleum industry, that is the demo version. But the demo can be customized by the user. So I think that the software can be customized to any industry.

* developed in association with NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and SINTEF (The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology) * the technical information section to find answers to frequently asked questions

suitable for any kind of analysis except dynamic system such as systems subject to complex maintenance strategies

Possible to conceive of multi any kind, can be customized

representation for fault tree TOP events and event tree consequences Integrated Markov analysis capability. Link simple or complex Markov models to events in the fault or event tree diagram. Event and Model Grouping. Categorise events or generic failure models in the project tree control. Global editing of inspection intervals. Modify inspection intervals for a group of events or generic failure models in one go.Navigate Fault Tree Page Structure. The fault tree page structure may be displayed as an option to allow easy navigation up and down the page hierarchy. Sequential Failure Model Improved. The sequential failure model now operates on high order cut sets with more than one sequential model group. Individual Gate Modularisation. Individual gates may now be selectively modularised. Gate Input Ordering. Gate inputs may now be displayed in any order specified by the user. Page Ordering. Printed fault tree pages may now be printed in the specific order requested by the user. Diagram Metafiles. Fault tree diagrams may now be exported directly to Windows Metafiles. Project Conversion. Version 9 projects may be converted to version 7 or 8 projects.

suitable for any kind of analysis except dynamic system such as systems subject to complex maintenance strategies

Can create a file recording all the actions decided. Can create a specific file per member of the team which records the actions in which the recipient is involved. This file can be send by e-mail or via disk. The recipient can modify the action file, and the analyze is automatically updated. Other safety processes can be run with the software (e.g: what if...). Version 5.0 will allow users to create their own risk matrix.

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FMEA for Medical

ROP (risk priority number) = Severity * Occurrence * Detectability

Rate Severity Occurrence Detectability1 none extremly unlikely extremely likely2 very slight remote very high3 slight very low high4 minor low moderate high5 moderate moderately low medium6 moderate high medium moderately low7 high moderately high low8 very high high very low9 extremly high very high remote10 maximum severity extremely likely extremely unlikely

Hazop version 4.0Severity minus frequency

F0 0 1 2F1 -1 0 1F2 -2 -1 0F3 -3 -2 -1F4 -4 -3 -2

S0 S1 S2

severity 0. Minor frequency 0. Once per month 1. Appreciable 1. Once per year 2. Major 2. Once in ten years 3. Severe 3. Once in a hundred years 4. Catastrophic 4. Once in a thousand years

HazopPlusRisk category

I IntolerableA AlarpN Negligible

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2. Once in ten years 3. Once in a hundred years 4. Once in a thousand years

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