ReliaSoft API Reference

The Synthesis API provides a library of classes that can be used to accomplish the exact same tasks as within Synthesis, but instead though Microsoft Visual Studio allowing for a more customizable an automatable solution to reliability engineering.

The Synthesis API can be used in any development environment that supports ActiveX controls, such as Microsoft’s Visual Basic, Visual C, C#, Access or Excel. The sample code and documentation in this manual have been prepared for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Visual Basic and .Net) development environment and we assume that the user is familiar with programming in that environment.

In order to use this library in a project a reference to ReliaSoft Synthesis API Library is required. It’s located in the folder where ReliaSoft Synthesis is installed. By default it is “C:\Program Files\ReliaSoft\Synthesis 9”.

.NET developers – use SynthesisAPI.dll

VB6 / VBA developers – use SynthesisAPI.tlb

Below is the list of classes and their methods contained in the library.

WeibullDataSet Class

ALTADataSet Class

WAPlots Class

Repository Class

Common Class

RawData Class

RawDataSet Class

Below is a list of classes and enumerations.

Classes / Enums

ModelTypeEnum RSFittedModel type.
ModelCategoryEnum The Category of the RSFittedModel
ConfBoundsSides Sides of confidence bounds.
ConfBoundsTypes Types of confidence bounds
ConfBoundsMethods Methods of confidence bound.
ParamName Name
ParamBoundsValues Class Upper and lower bounds for a model's parameter.
ParamValues Class Model's parameter name and value.

BoundsValues Class

BoundsValues Class Upper and lower bounds.
BoundsValues.Upper Sets Upper bound.
BoundsValues.Lower Sets Lower bound.

ParamInputInfo Class

ParamInputInfo Class Class used for parameters input.
ParamInputInfo.Name Parameter input in ParamInputInfo Class for Name
ParamInputInfo.Min Parameter input in ParamInputInfo Class for Min
ParamInputInfo.Max Parameter input in ParamInputInfo Class for Max
ParamInputInfo.CanEqualMin Parameter input in ParamInputInfo Class for CanEqualMin
ParamInputInfo.CanEqualMax Parameter input in ParamInputInfo Class for CanEqualMax
ParamInputInfo.Value Parameter input in ParamInputInfo Class for Value

Classes / Enums

ResetOptionEnum Can be used to assign values to ResetOption within CorrectiveTasks
TaskFrequencyEnum Can be used to assign values to TaskFrequency within CorrectiveTasks
TaskRestorationTypeEnum Can be used to assign values to TaskRestorationType within CorrectiveTasks
TaskClassEnum Can be used to assign values to TaskClass within CorrectiveTasks

Resource Classes

cModel Class

cAction Class

cURD Class

cVariable Class

cCrew Class

cPool Class

cCorrectiveTask Class

cScheduledTask Class

Classes / Enums

WAPlotType This includes all possible plot types for Weibull / ALTA plots

WAPlotSettings

WAPlotSettings Settings used in Weibull / ALTA plots.
WAPlotSettings.UserName User name that appears on the plot.
WAPlotSettings.UserCompany Company name that appears on the plot.
WAPlotSettings.AutoscaleX Whether the X-scale is calculated automatically.
WAPlotSettings.AutoscaleY Whether the Y-scale is calculated automatically.
WAPlotSettings.Xmin X-scale start. Only used if AutoscaleX is false.
WAPlotSettings.Xmax X-scale end. Only used if AutoscaleX is false.
WAPlotSettings.Ymin Y-scale start. Only used if AutoscaleY is false.
WAPlotSettings.Ymax Y-scale end. Only used if AutoscaleY is false.
WAPlotSettings.ShowParameterBar Whether to show the parameter bars as probability plot.
WAPlotSettings.ShowParameterScales Whether to show the parameter scales as probability plot.
WAPlotSettings.ShowTargetReliability Whether to show the target reliability line.
WAPlotSettings.ShowTargetTime Whether to show the target time line.
WAPlotSettings.ShowTargetMarker Whether to show the a marker on the intersection of target reliability and time lines.
WAPlotSettings.TargetReliability The value of target reliability.
WAPlotSettings.TargetTime The value of target time.
WAPlotSettings.ShowSuspensionPoints Whether to show suspension points on X-axis.
WAPlotSettings.ShowLeftCensoredPoints Whether to show left censored points on X-axis.
WAPlotSettings.ShowLinesAroundInterval Whether to show vertical lines around an interval line.
WAPlotSettings.AdjustMLEPoints Whether to adjust MLE points.
WAPlotSettings.StraightenGammaLine Whether to streighten the probability line for Gamma and G-Gamma distributions.
WAPlotSettings.ShowNumberInGroup Whether to show the number of points in the group for grouped data.
WAPlotSettings.PlotXPrecision Precision for labels on X-axis.
WAPlotSettings.PlotYPrecision Precision for labels on Y-axis.
WAPlotSettings.PlotXTolerance Tolerance for labels on X-axis.
WAPlotSettings.PlotYTolerance Tolerance for labels on Y-axis.
WAPlotSettings.ConfBounds_SideSelected Sides of the confidence bounds.
WAPlotSettings.ConfBounds_TypesSelected Type of the confidence bounds.
WAPlotSettings.ConfidenceLevel Confidence level.
WAPlotSettings.ContourConfLevel Confidence level for contour line plot.
WAPlotSettings.HistogramInterval Interval in histogram plots. Set it to 0 to use the automatically calculated interval.