Ansys medini analyze Reviews

Review: ANSYS Medini Analyze

Pros:

1. The best-integrated feature application to speed up functional safety activities.2. The easy linking of safety analyses and requirements created in DOORS.

Cons:

1. Tool takes more system memory and hangs a lot. 2. Software doesn't have many user-friendly options when compared to other applications.

Ideal tool for FS

Comments: It takes time to learn but it is easy to maintain and complete the required documents

Pros:

The possibility to develop the complete product lifecycle for FS, CS and SOTIF

Cons:

There is no straight way to follow the V-cycle process. It is required to jump from a project item to another one continuously to fulfill all the docs

HQN review of Medini Analyze

Comments: We are using Medini to implement our Functional Safety Process. Overall, the tools is acceptable. It gets the jobs done with ad hoc works-around that must be manually recreated in different models. Should use SysML or at least UML as template in the same fashion as Sparx System's Enterprise Architect or IBM's Rhapsody.

Pros:

We use all features of Functional Safety analysis. Medini allows us to have all these analysis to be coherently located in a single model. The tool is relatively easy to use. But, create templates to tailor the tool to our existing process is challenging if not impossible without expert help from Ansys. Currently, we cannot integrate Medini with our other tools except by exporting/importing via MS Excel or MS Word. And, this process is cumbersome and prone to errors.

Cons:

Limited SysML capability to model Systems/Items and Functional Safety work products in Medini.

Ansys medini analyze review from a safety and security user point of view

Comments: The expereience is good. We now use it to speed up functional safety and cybersecurity activities for various projects.

Pros:

The most impactful features are the possibility to manage most of the safety life development of a product inside a single tool. Is possible to define an item definition, HARA, derive SG, create functional safety and technical safety concepts, link requirements, perform FMEA, FMEDA, FTA. All in a single environmel and with deep in treacibility. From last version it also features security actvitity. It also integrable with other company tool beacuse it support othe rrequirement managent tool import export (for example Doors).

Cons:

BIRT, the add in integrated to create custom report template, is not easy to use and require some javascript programming knowledge. The user manual of BIRT contains very minimal informations and the only source of help is the Medini forum.

Goiing Good and Need Improvements

Comments: The idea is good to have all safety activities in the same tool. still Medini have many blockings for new users, where they feel more easy on the old classic tools than Medini.

Pros:

it covers most of the safety activities and a change done in one activity could reflect on other levels/ activities too.

Cons:

Tool take more memory and hangs a lot. Also Medini dont have user friendly options, compare to the classic tools we used for analysis, in particularly where FMEA/FMEDAs even a copy paste is not supported.

Medini Analyze Review

Comments: Great so far

Pros:

Extensibility: I like it how easy it is to extend the metamodel and enhance the modeling flow with custom scripts. This makes it very easy to adapt medini into pretty much any safety/security analysis workflow. Reporting: The integration with BIRT is fantastic and the fact that you can automatically generate reports from top to bottom and export them in many different formats takes a lot of the burden off of the team. Community: The scripting and reporting forums are a great source for information on how to get the most out of Medini. Integration with external tools: The integration between Medini and tools such as SCADE Architect and Simulink makes the communication between system architects and safety/security engineers very straight forward.

Cons:

I feel like sometimes it is hard to find examples on scripting and reporting. A more extensive documentation covering those would be welcome (especially concerning scripted data sources in reporting). This is a very minor con though, since the support we get in the Medini forums is top notch. But it would be a nice feature to have.

Complete and poweful

Comments: Ansys Medini is helping us to define a complete Model Base end to end. All the safety info can be stored in a single file, reducing complexity.

Pros:

High traceability between safety artifacts. All in one. Allows concurrent work with git. Support is good and on time

Cons:

You need to write scripts to increase tool flexibility and automation capabilities. Some bugs arise from time to time. Reporting can be improved.

From security perspective

Comments: Quite satisfied

Pros:

My team is using to analyze the attack surface risk rating and threat mapping

Cons:

Lacking of some security control standards like nost and cis

Maxwell and Simplorer user

Comments: I have very good experience with Ansys tools, especially Maxwell and Simplorer. It helped me in my project where we reduced time to market time due to good simulation accuracy and prediction of performance before asking for physical samples from suppliers. Also, it is easy to share models with suppliers, which save time and money.

Pros:

I really like the Maxwell tool for magnetic simulation. It is a very detailed and useful tool from the concept phase to simulation level analysis with the Simplorer tool with an easy interface.

Cons:

Sometimes it is difficult to remember all tips and tricks to improve simulation speed and accuracy especially if tool used after some time.

Easy to use and understand for other engineering functions

Pros:

So clear understanding report outs. Other functions can understand contributions and results as well.

Cons:

Lite version can be developed to gain time for modeling. Library development can be added.

Pros and Cons

Comments: functional safety analysis of automotive projects

Pros:

the traceability feature is excellent, easy to use and follow. FTA feature is extra ordinary. make it lot easier to arrange and re-arrange.

Cons:

1. it should be in a common server so that anyone with access can leave comment and update. at the end, the complete process can trace all the updates in one version, not in several. 2. does not have any easy way to share the work. need to generate *.mprx file in order to share the work / updates. very difficult to follow up which one has the latest update.

It is very good product for Functional Safety analysis.

Comments: I used it for the Functional Safety Hardware development, it is very useful tool, especially for the FMEDA and FTA analysis.

Pros:

FMEDA sheet for the FIT value analysis.

Cons:

The support of the Java scripts, and also the generation of the documents need to be further improved.

Risk assessment

Pros:

Improved Features to customize templates

Cons:

It would be helpful to simply the process to work in parallel (e.g., see result in real-time) instead of creating a won version and merging it at the end

Electronics S&V simulation use

Pros:

Setting up the model is detailed and straghtforward

Cons:

The link to other similar softwares can be improved.

Medini Analyse for Safety Analyses

Comments: Good experience

Pros:

Ability to integrate the system architecture and requirements with the safety analyses and maintain the traceability between the different safety stages

Cons:

Feel that Help feature could be better. Currently difficult to search in the help feature.

Tool is easy to use but hard to have access. I faced lot of Administrative problems.

Comments: Tool is easy to use but hard to have access. I faced lot of Administrative problems.

Pros:

Tool is easy to use. Features are helpful.

Cons:

I faced lot of Administrative problems.

ANSYS Software Review

Pros:

I appreciate the classes and tutorials/examples that are provided through the ANSYS portal.

Cons:

The software looks old and outdated. I also wish the icons by default had word labels. It is hard for a newcomer to know they need to turn those on.

Medini for Functional Safety Activities

Comments: Ansys team was very helpful , they have provide training before during the start and also provided temp license as soon as the order is confirmed which avoided further delay in starting the activities .

Pros:

Ansys team has given a good introduction to the tool as soon as its purchased and it helped the team initially as the team was new to the tool.

Cons:

Tool is being used for the functional safety activities currently and it works well for the purpose.

For those who care about traceability

Pros:

One of the best features of the program is the easy linking of safety analyzes and requirements created in DOORS. And also having folders such as FTA, FMECA, hazard log, safety plan etc. on the same platform provides convenience for companies.

Cons:

We thought that it was directly integrated with the fault tree+ program, but it took much more time than we expected. As a suggestion, a library prepared on the basis of EN 5012X standards used in rail systems will accelerate the spread of the program to the sector.

Medini Review

Pros:

Allows integration with SCADE Architect, Very good support service.

Cons:

Buggy software, strong need of scripting skills for customization.

Best hazard and operability (HAZOP) analysis

Comments: Great tool for reduction in the time needed to complete functional safety analysis

Pros:

safety analysis methods (HAZOP, HARA, FHA, FTA.)

Cons:

model-based approach very intuitive and user-friendly,

Review of ansys software

Pros:

It is kind of easy to use. The icon of this software look easy and simple. So the users who use this first can understand fast and easily

Cons:

In the 'structure' tap, it is difficult to make component. And it is not that useful when it comes to select several things. (I cannot select several components at one with ctrl+shift or drag)

User from TCAO

Pros:

Ease of usage , Easy to to visualize and except

Cons:

Training material availability, Not much online resources