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 Can I schedule preventive maintenance or inspections during a
Maintenance Phase in BlockSim?
Blocksim allows you to schedule preventive maintenance
or inspections on the system during a Maintenance Phase,
according to the age of the system. The System Age Threshold
option in the Maintenance Phase Properties window can help you
optimize the resources allocated to repair the system during a
Maintenance Phase by performing preventive maintenance or
inspections when the system is already down for corrective
maintenance.
For example, if a preventive maintenance action is scheduled
for a car (e.g. an oil change, tire rotation, etc.) at
60,000 miles, but a system downing event occurs at 55,000 miles,
the System Age Threshold will determine whether the preventive
maintenance will be performed earlier than scheduled. If the
System Age Threshold is 0.9, the preventive maintenance will be
performed, since the system downing event occurred within the
interval of 54,000-60,000 miles (i.e. within 10% of the
system age at which the preventive maintenance was originally
scheduled). If the System Age Threshold is 0.95, the preventive
maintenance will not be performed, since the system downing
event did not occur within the interval of 57,000-60,000 miles (i.e.
within 5% of the system age at which the preventive maintenance
was originally scheduled).
Are there any issues
with running ReliaSoft's software under the Windows Vista
operating system?
There are 2 known issues with current ReliaSoft software and
the Windows Vista operating system. There are simple workarounds
to both of these issues. Additionally, ReliaSoft is working on
modifying its products to eliminate these issues through free Service Releases
distributed via the Web.
- Issue
with Licensing and Activating the Software
When you install one of
ReliaSoft's software products on Windows Vista, license and activation
information for your ReliaSoft's Product may not be stored in
the registry, which will result in the need for you to reenter the license and reactivate
the product every time you start it. This is due to a new
"default" security implementation under Vista, named
User Account Control (UAC)
. With this option turned on,
ReliaSoft's license manager cannot store your license
information.
Solution: Temporarily turn
the User Account Control feature off, license and activate the
application and then turn the security feature back on (if you wish). To do this,
from the Windows Vista "Control Panel," select User Accounts and
then select Turn User Control on or off. Turn it off and
license/activate the ReliaSoft product. Repeat these steps to turn UAC
back on if you wish.
- Issue
with Accessing Help Files
Some of ReliaSoft's help files (as well as those
of thousands of applications written using the Windows help file
format) do not work under Vista. This is because Microsoft has
made the decision to stop supporting the *.hlp file format in
Windows Vista. (See also
Microsoft Support Article for further discussion on this.)
Solution: ReliaSoft
is in the process of replacing our help files with a
newer, Vista-compatible format and we have already released this update
for several products, so be sure to check for service
releases at
http://www.ReliaSoft.com/downloads.htm. Until this
transition is complete, to view 32-bit
*.hlp files, Microsoft requires users to download the program
(WinHlp32.exe) from the
Microsoft Download Center, and then install it on their
computers.
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