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1. Introduction
1.1. Safety Analysis Overview
1.2. Safety of the Intended Function (SOTIF)
1.3. Cybersecurity Analysis
2. Installation and Configuration
2.1. Prerequisites
2.2. Installation and Update
2.2.1. Installer command line parameters
2.3. Removal
2.4. License Configuration
2.5. Installation of the Ansys License Server
2.6. Ansys Shared Web Licensing
2.7. Unavailability of a license
2.8. License Borrowing
2.9. Application Structure and Views
2.9.1. Enabling the other views
2.9.2. Perspectives
2.9.3. Preferences
2.10. Starting the Application
2.10.1. Workspace handling
2.10.2. Project creation
2.10.3. Delete a Project from the Workspace
2.10.4. Renaming a Project
2.10.5. Project close and open
2.10.6. Project structure
2.10.7. Double-Click handling
3. Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment
3.1. Creation of a new Analysis Model
3.2. Filling Hazard Analysis Tables
3.3. Views in the Hazard Analysis
3.4. Definition of Operational Situation Parameters
3.5. Analysis based on Operational Situation Catalogs
3.6. Using the Situation Matrix
3.6.1. Situation Matrix Configuration
3.6.2. Situation Matrix View
3.6.3. Situation Matrix Details
3.7. Creation of an Operational Situation Catalogs
3.8. Creation of pre-initialized hazard analyses
3.9. Import of an existing hazard analysis
3.10. Domain Specific Aspects of the Hazard Analysis
3.10.1. Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (Automotive)
3.10.2. Functional Hazard Assessment (Aerospace)
4. Safety Requirements Management
4.1. Safety Requirements Model
4.2. Graphical Editor for Safety Requirements
4.2.1. General
4.2.2. Element Creation and Modification
4.2.3. Relation Creation and Modification
4.2.4. ASIL Decomposition (ISO 26262)
4.3. Table Editors for Safety Goals and Safety Requirements
4.3.1. Safety Goal Table Editor
4.3.2. Requirements Table & Form Editors
4.4. Safety Requirement Allocation and Traceability
4.5. Requirements Renumbering
5. System Design Models
5.1. Creating a new SysML Model
5.2. Using the Graphical SysML Editor
5.2.1. Creating elements via the palette
5.2.2. Multiple Diagrams
5.2.3. Exchange Visual Appearance of Elements
5.3. Custom Table Views and Editor
5.3.1. Configuration of a Table View
5.4. SysML Blocks: Facilitating the type concept
5.4.1. Creating parts of an existing block type
5.4.2. Deriving a type from an existing part
5.4.3. Assigning, Removing, and Changing Types
5.4.4. Updating instances via their types
5.4.5. Using Feature Inheritance (Superclassing)
5.4.6. Port Definitions
5.4.7. Navigation between type and elements
5.5. SysML Activities and Actions
5.6. Specifying the Functions of a System
5.6.1. Functions in the diagram
5.7. Editing Properties of Model Elements
5.7.1. Property View for elements
5.7.2. General Element Properties
5.7.3. Safety Properties
5.7.4. Failure modes and Malfunctions
5.7.5. Failure Rates of elements
5.7.6. Limitations
5.7.7. Ports and Data Flow Specifications
5.7.8. Failure Mode Properties
5.7.9. Malfunctions
5.7.10. Element Dependencies
5.7.11. Copy of Failure Rate Data And Failure Modes
5.8. SysML Dependency Net Editor
5.8.1. Opening the Dependency Net Editor
5.8.2. Editing SysML Dependencies
5.9. SysML Reliability Table Editor
5.10. Cloning of complete SysML Models
5.11. Using Element Libraries
5.11.1. Creating an Element Library
5.11.2. Importing an Element Library
5.11.3. Updating an Element Library
5.12. Import of Element Lists from CSV/Excel
5.13. Allocation and Traceability
5.14. Transition from SysML v1.x to SysML v2
6. Safety Analysis
6.1. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
6.1.1. Setup of FMEA Risk Classification
6.1.2. FMEA Risk Matrix Definition
6.1.3. Creation of FMEA Worksheets
6.1.4. Executing the FMEA
6.1.5. FMEDA Option (Deprecated)
6.1.6. Import of FMEA data (Excel)
6.1.7. Copy and Paste for FMEA worksheets
6.2. System Weakness Analysis (SWA)
6.2.1. Creation of SWA Worksheets
6.2.2. SWA Worksheet Structure
6.3. Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
6.3.1. Creation of FTA models
6.3.2. FTA Diagram Editor
6.3.3. FTA Diagram Pagination
6.3.4. Reoccurring Events
6.3.5. Layouting a fault tree
6.3.6. Event and Gate Properties
6.3.7. Outline view
6.3.8. Creation of Events from Models
6.3.9. Analysis of Fault Trees
6.3.10. Copy and Paste for FTA
6.3.11. Deriving safety requirements from FTA
6.3.12. Deriving failures from FTA
6.4. Component Fault Trees (CFT)
6.4.1. Creation of Fault Tree Components
6.4.2. Usage of Fault Tree Components
6.4.3. Handling of Probabilities in CFTs
6.4.4. Evaluation of CFTs
6.4.5. Generating fault trees from CFT
6.5. Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD)
6.5.1. Creation of RBD Diagrams
6.5.2. RBD Editor Concepts
6.5.3. RBD Evaluation
6.5.4. Conversion of RBD into FTA
6.6. FMEDA and Diagnostic Coverage Metrics
6.6.1. Creation of FMEDAs
6.6.2. FMEDA Worksheet Configuration
6.6.3. Usage of the FMEDA Worksheets
6.6.4. Safety Mechanism Coverage Analysis
6.6.5. Deactivation of Safety Mechanisms
6.6.6. Analyzing multiple Safety Goals
6.6.7. Analysis of Variants in FMEDA
6.6.8. SPF/LF for transient failures
6.6.9. Failure Modes - Causes and Effects
6.6.10. Copy and paste of FMEDA Worksheets
6.6.11. Copy analysis results in FMEDA Worksheets
6.6.12. Exporting an FMEDA Worksheet for configuration in an application context
6.7. HAZOP and Guideword Analysis
6.7.1. Guideword Template Definition
6.7.2. Creating a HAZOP or Guideword Analysis
6.7.3. Change Guideword Columns
6.8. Reliability Prediction
6.8.1. Failure Rate Handbooks
6.8.2. Reliability Databases
6.8.3. Component Failure Rates
6.8.4. Mission Profiles for Failure Rate Prediction
6.8.5. Transient Base Failure Rates
6.8.6. Adjusting the Unit of Failure Rates
6.8.7. Automation of Failure Rate Selection from Handbooks
6.9. Failure and Weakness Collections
6.9.1. Creating collections
6.9.2. Working with failure collections
6.9.3. Import into Collections
6.10. Measures and Design Controls
6.10.1. Working with Measures and Design Controls
6.10.2. Import of Measures/Mechanisms
6.10.3. Safety Mechanisms and Predefined Catalogs
6.11. Failure Rate Aggregation for Chip Design Analysis
6.12. Fault Injection Support for IP Design Analysis
6.12.1. Mapping failure modes and safety mechanisms to IP design models
6.12.2. Exporting Fault Injection Campaign Data
6.12.3. Updating Diagnostic Coverage values from fault injection runs
7. Safety Domain Profiles
7.1. Automotive (ISO 26262)
7.1.1. ISO 26262 Project Template
7.1.2. ASIL Assignment and Computation
7.1.3. Item Definition
7.1.4. HW Architectural Metrics (FMEDA)
7.2. Aerospace (ARP 4754A/ARP4761)
7.2.1. Aviation Project Template (ARP 4754A/ARP4761)
7.3. Industrial Profile (IEC 61508)
7.3.1. Industrial Project Template (IEC 61508)
7.4. Other Safety Standards
7.5. Cybersecurity Profile
7.5.1. Cybersecurity Project Template
7.5.2. Adding a Cybersecurity Domain Profile
8. Task Management & Commenting
8.1. Overview
8.2. Connection to Repositories
8.2.1. Repository Reconnection
8.2.2. Task Management with PTC Windchill RV&S (formerly Integrity)
8.3. Task Creation
8.4. Working with Tasks
8.4.1. Task to Element Navigation
8.4.2. Element to Task Navigation
8.4.3. Task Lists
8.4.4. Task Activation and Deactivation
8.4.5. Scheduling and other Properties of Tasks
8.4.6. Task lifecycle for deleted elements
8.5. Miscellaneous
8.5.1. Deletion of Task Associations
8.5.2. Export and Import of Task Lists
8.5.3. Submission of multiple Tasks
9. Checklists
9.1. Checklist Template Definition
9.2. Using Checklists
9.3. Quick Edit Options
9.4. Duplication
10. Diff/Merge Handling
10.1. Overview of Teamwork
10.1.1. 2-way vs. 3-way Compare
10.1.2. Setup for Teamwork
10.2. Comparison of Projects
10.2.1. Configuring and Starting Project Comparison
10.2.2. Differences Perspective
10.3. Integrate and Merge
11. Real-Time Collaboration
11.1. Adding a Server
11.2. Loading a Project
11.3. Sharing a Project
11.4. Locking a Project for Editing
11.4.1. Starting Exclusive Editing
11.4.2. Stopping Exclusive Editing
11.4.3. Requesting Project Access
11.4.4. Unlocking a Locked Project
11.5. About Project Versions
11.5.1. Viewing a Version
11.6. Working Offline
11.6.1. Creating an Offline Project
11.6.2. Pushing Changes to the Server
11.6.3. Pulling Changes from the Server
11.6.4. Resolving Merge Conflicts
11.6.5. Deleting Offline Projects
12. Integrations
12.1. Exchange of Requirements with RMS
12.1.1. Common Integration Features
12.1.2. DOORS Integration
12.1.3. PTC Windchill RV&S Integration
12.1.4. Jama Integration
12.1.5. DOORS NG Integration
12.1.6. Polarion Integration
12.1.7. Codebeamer Integration
12.1.8. ReqIF based Requirements Exchange
12.1.9. Import and Export with Excel
12.2. MATLAB/Simulink Integration (Deprecated)
12.2.1. Connection to the MATLAB/Simulink Installation
12.2.2. Loading Simulink Models
12.2.3. Updating Simulink Models
12.2.4. Show details of imported Simulink models
12.3. Exchange with 3rd Party FTA Tools
12.3.1. Exchange with Reliability Workbench
12.3.2. Exchange with CAFTA
12.3.3. Exchange in OpenPSA Format
12.4. Exchange with 3rd Party FMEA Tools
12.4.1. Import of FMEA data (MSR-XML Format)
12.4.2. Export of FMEA data (MSR-XML Format)
12.5. Meta-Data of Imported Models
13. About SysML Model Integration
13.1. Importing Models from External SysML Tools
13.1.1. Concepts Supported During Import
13.1.2. About the Import of SysML Diagrams
13.2. Updating Imported SysML Models
13.2.1. Updating an Imported Model
13.3. Import from Ansys System Architecture Modeler (SAM)
13.3.1. Before you begin
13.3.2. Importing a Model from Ansys SAM
13.3.3. Updating the Imported SAM Model
13.3.4. Supported Concepts for SAM
13.4. Import from IBM Rational Rhapsody
13.4.1. About Supported Versions
13.4.2. Before You Begin
13.4.3. Import Options for Rhapsody
13.4.4. Importing a Model from Rhapsody
13.4.5. Known Issues when Importing from Rhapsody
13.5. Import from Cameo Systems Modeler (MagicDraw)
13.5.1. Importing a Model from Cameo (MagicDraw)
13.6. Import from Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
13.6.1. Importing a Model from EA
13.6.2. Importing Diagrams from Enterprise Architect
13.6.3. About Mappings in Enterprise Architect
13.6.4. About Constraints When Importing from EA
13.7. Import from SCADE Architect
13.7.1. Importing a Model from SCADE Architect
13.8. Import of Chip Design Data (IP Design)
13.8.1. Showing Details of Imported Models
14. Reporting and Document Generation
14.1. Table Reports
14.2. Standard Tool Reports
14.2.1. FTA Report (with auto-pagination)
14.2.2. FMEA Report
14.2.3. Automotive Reports (ISO 26262)
14.3. Generating an Overall Project Report
14.4. Generating a custom report
14.5. Using M2Doc to Generate a Report
14.5.1. Preparing the Report Configuration
14.5.2. Generating the Report
15. Common Features
15.1. Searching
15.2. Tagging Elements
15.3. Adding or Referencing Documents
15.3.1. Referencing to External Documents from Form Editors
15.4. Import and Export of Projects and Data
15.4.1. Export of projects using the Eclipse wizard
15.4.2. Import of projects using the Eclipse wizard
15.4.3. Import of Project Settings
15.4.4. Import of data in Excel/CSV-Format
15.5. Subversion and CMS Integrations
15.6. Element Relationships
15.7. Traceability
15.7.1. Creation of traces
15.7.2. Editing of Traces
15.7.3. Deletion of traces
15.7.4. Detection of dangling traces
15.7.5. Filtering the trace matrix
15.7.6. Predefined filters
15.7.7. Trace Matrix Report
15.7.8. Navigation via traces
15.8. Glossary
15.8.1. Creation of Glossary and Glossary Entries
15.8.2. Glossary Support in Forms
15.9. Dependency Viewer
15.9.1. Activation
15.9.2. Setting the focus
15.9.3. Dependency Viewer Options
15.9.4. Other options
15.10. Project states
15.11. Constraint validation
15.11.1. Project Validation
15.11.2. Definition and management of constraints
15.12. Profiling mechanism
15.12.1. Adding a new property
15.12.2. Text type properties
15.12.3. Reference type properties
15.12.4. Boolean type properties
15.12.5. Date type properties
15.12.6. Properties of type "derived"
15.13. Expressions Language
15.14. Project Settings
15.14.1. Auto-counter Patterns
15.14.2. Failure Rate Catalogs
15.15. Using the Model Browser
15.15.1. Drag and Drop
15.15.2. Management of package structure
15.16. General aspects for table editors
15.16.1. Table Layout
15.16.2. Adding and manipulating rows and cells
15.16.3. Editing Reference Cells
15.16.4. Navigation in tables and data entry
15.16.5. Filtering Table Editors
15.16.6. Generating Reports
15.17. General aspects for graphical editors
15.17.1. Element creation
15.17.2. Copy, Paste and Element Deletion
15.17.3. Working with multiple diagrams
15.17.4. Changing the visual appearance of diagram elements
15.17.5. Referenced Elements
15.18. General aspects for form editors
15.18.1. Custom properties definition
15.19. Command Line Interface
15.19.1. Syntax
15.19.2. Compare Command
15.19.3. Open Command
15.20. Legend
15.21. Miscellaneous
16. Additional Information
16.1. Project migration after updating medini analyze
16.1.1. Migrating Shared Projects
16.1.2. Migration from 1.x and 2.x versions
16.1.3. Migration from v3.0 to v3.1
16.1.4. Migration from v3.1 to v3.2
16.1.5. Migration from v3.2 to v3.4
16.1.6. Migration from v3.4 to v4.0
16.1.7. Migration from v4.0, v18.0 and v18.1 to v18.2
16.1.8. Migration from v18.2 to v19.0
16.1.9. Migration from 19.x to 2019 R1
16.1.10. Migration from 2019 R1 to 2019 R2
16.1.11. Migration from 2019 R2 to 2019 R3
16.1.12. Migration from 2019 R3 to 2020 R1
16.1.13. Migration from 2020 R1 to 2020 R2
16.1.14. Migration from 2020 R2 to 2021 R1
16.1.15. Migration from 2021 R1 to 2021 R2
16.1.16. Migration from 2021 R2 to 2022 R1
16.1.17. Migration from 2022 R1 to 2022 R2
16.1.18. Migration from 2022 R2 to 2023 R1
16.1.19. Migration from 2023 R1 to 2023 R2
16.1.20. Migration from 2023 R2 to 2024 R1
16.1.21. Migration from 2024 R1 to 2024 R2
16.2. Diagnostic Tools
16.3. Support for medini analyze
16.4. Reporting Defects and Problems
16.5. Out Of Memory
16.6. Deprecated Features
16.6.1. Generation of FTA from Simulink
16.6.2. Internal SVN Client
16.6.3. MATLAB/Simulink
16.7. Trademarks and copyright information