ReliaSoft XFRACAS is a highly configurable, web-based Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS). Depending on how you configure your implementation, this can include incident/failure reporting, failure analysis on returned parts, part tracking for serialized systems, root cause analysis, team-based problem resolution and tracking the completion of assigned actions. The software can be integrated with other ReliaSoft applications, which provides intelligent integration between reliability program activities and tools while simultaneously facilitating effective information sharing and cooperation between engineering teams of any size.
FRACAS (Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System or Defect Report and Corrective Action System) is one of several commonly used acronyms for a system that is used to report failures and track the corrective actions. Other commonly used names include DRACAS (Data Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System), DCACAS (Data Collection Analysis and Corrective Action System) and CAPA software (Corrective And Preventive Action software).
The incident reporting process in XFRACAS can result in clean, usable data for reliability analysis in ReliaSoft desktop applications. You can easily use the failure data to perform reliability analysis with ReliaSoft Weibull++ software to spot trends, assess the situation before issues become larger problems, and proactively make product corrective plans. If XFRACAS data entry is based on fully serialized systems, you can extract complete time-to-failure and suspension data by system, subsystem and component.
Closing the loop between your FMEA and FRACAS can be very beneficial for all your future design revisions and products. With ReliaSoft XFMEA, you can synchronize the generic system configurations, use FMEA to define the failure modes that can be assigned to incidents, problems or failure analysis reports or use failure modes defined in XFRACAS as input to your FMEA.
You can deploy ReliaSoft SEP on the same database and web server as XFRACAS. When implemented together, SEP links to the FRACAS records assigned to you, and enables FMEA teams to review relevant field failure reports for the parts they are analyzing.
The XFRACAS tool is utilized within GE Aviation to run Flight Safety related items across all of the programs to maintain compliance with the US Government.