News Opus Suite v2023.1

Release 2023.1 includes many exciting new capabilities, together with enhancements to existing features.

Enhanced performance for LORA-XT problems

The time it takes to perform a LORA-XT analysis depends very much on the complexity of the problem at hand. Even for a relatively small model with a limited number of candidates to evaluate the computations can be complex due to the nature of LORA-XT analysis. The time it takes to solve certain LORA-XT problems has until now to some degree been a limiting factor. To address this issue the calculations have now been improved to utilize multiple processing units more efficiently. This development has made it possible to solve problems that in previous versions were essentially deemed unsolvable because of the long execution time. As a consequence of this improvement, the results obtained from OPUS10 version 2023.1 might not be identical to the ones obtained from previous versions. By increasing the number of points presented on the C/E-curve (“NPOINT” in table ControlParameters) the user might get the same points as in previous versions. Note that the discrepancy in the results is not significant.

Filling gaps in the C/E-curve

Thanks to enhancements in the computations the number of points presented on the C/E-curve has increased. This means that the “gaps” that sometimes appeared between two points when an expensive item was added to the inventory have now shrunk. Note that the user can encounter situations where the number of points grow so large that the performance is impacted. In these cases, the user has the option to turn off this feature by setting “CFILL=N” in table ControlParameters. However, this phenomenon is rare but if such cases are found please notify Systecon support.

Probability of utilization of consumables

The calculation of the amount of consumables that are spent when executing a task has been refined. It is now possible to include a probability that a certain consumable will be used. This feature is helpful in situations where a task requires the consumable sometimes.

Filter functions in input tables

For models with a lot of data records it can be tedious to get an overview of how often a certain identifier is referenced within a table. With the new filter functions this is no longer an issue. The user can now easily filter an input table based on an identifier. In OPUS10 and SIMLOX this has been taken one step further making it possible to filter several input tables with respect to an identifier. This enables the user to easily get an overview of the model.

Automatic data generation

The ability to automatically generate items has been reintroduced in this version of Opus Suite. Each item is accompanied by a randomly generated price, failure rate and corresponding failure identifier. It is even possible to create a full product breakdown, including item realizations, based on the list of generated items. This feature is useful in situations where only rough estimates of failure rates and prices are available and is meant to facilitate and encourage the building of models in early phases of a product’s life cycle.

Resource utilization cost per task

The presentation of costs related to the usage of resources has until now been summarized per resource. These results have been refined and resource utilization costs can now also be presented per maintenance task.

Previous releases:

Opus Suite v2021.1 
Opus Suite v2021.2
Opus Suite v2022.0
Opus Suite v2022.1
Opus Suite v2022.2
Opus Suite v2023.0