Opus Suite 2025
Providing world-class support for LCM analytics is the number one driving force at Systecon. Decades of experience, and a constant presence in the frontline of developing Life Cycle Management, help us maintain the position as the primary choice on a global market. Opus Suite is constantly supported and updated with new versions released regularly. The topics below introduce the main new features presented during the last year, all included in version 2025 of Opus Suite.
New features
- Mission Capability simulation
The new version of Opus Suite introduces a unique and highly useful ability to simulate and assess the mission-capable rate for technical systems over time.
Mission capability / Mission capable rate describes the ability of systems to perform missions of different types, given its current condition. Full mission-capable (FMC) means that a system can perform all of its relevant mission types. For example, aircraft mission types could be search-and-rescue, surveillance, personnel transport, and training. A system can also be partially mission-capable (PMC) when it can perform some of its mission types, or not mission-capable (NMC).
To describe further what this powerful new functionality means, let’s first clarify that it is a complement to the long established key SIMLOX feature to simulate availability and mission success probability over time, given a specific scenario where the intended operations are described as a schedule of missions of different types. Until now, it has however not been possible to assess what is commonly referred to as Mission Capability, which is a way to describe a system’s (or system fleet’s) preparedness for all types of missions that can come up during a scenario. Thus, capturing the readiness and capability to pivot and perform other missions, while performing the anticipated schedule, and also during times when no missions are scheduled. Version 2025 provides users with exactly that ability. It is now possible to capture and predict if and when systems are mission capable, across the entire scenario, and not only during scheduled missions.
With this functionality, users can assess what overall defense capabilities can be expected and ensure that multi-purpose systems - like ships or fighter aircrafts – can meet their complete range of intended capabilities.
This means that SIMLOX now provides an even more comprehensive assessment of the system capability for different operational modes, offering valuable decision support when evaluating readiness requirements and ensuring adherence to specified criteria. For example, the new results can predict if a search and rescue capability of at least 98% can be upheld at all times, or if the capability to perform subsurface warfare missions will be above 80%, and maintained over time, given intended other operations. With the new input data, the user can efficiently capture the different desired system capabilities, and new output data includes new dedicated reports and results on how mission-capable different systems are over time.
Graphical presentations of System Capabilities are accessible both in the traditional and the new SIMLOX result view, where the latter gives a more comprehensive overview and an enhanced visualization of the capability results.- Identification of downtime drivers
In this version of SIMLOX it is possible to get information about which subsystem, or item, that result in a system not being able to perform its desired operation, the so- called "drivers of downtime". Downtime in this context is defined as the time that a system is not capable for an operational mode, due to one or several failures. For example, it is now possible to analyze what component to blame for the system not being able to perform search and rescue operations. Depending on how you want to allocate the blame you can get the answer by subsystem or by items.
- New viewers for Optimization and Simulation Results
During the latest development of Opus Suite one of the main focuses has been to make it easier to access and understand results. With brand new, complementary, visualizations for OPUS10 and SIMLOX it is now possible to create customized dashboards tailored to your needs. These dashboards can be saved in their entirety or simply exported as images or CSV tables.
Users can choose whether to study results with the previous viewer, the new viewer, or both at the same time. After linking a result file to the new view, all graphs are immediately, and automatically, updated once new results are available in the result file.
The goal of the new result viewers is to present results in a more flexible way. For example, the new capability and downtime driver results in SIMLOX (see below) can be visualized, and analyzed, more efficiently using the new view.
- Advanced modeling capabilities for failures in SIMLOX
To be able to continuously claim the best-in-class position, the core algorithms for the optimization and simulation in Opus Suite is under constant review and development. In this version, significant improvements have been made which allows for exciting news in SIMLOX. Through the ability to describe failure intervals according to a Weibull distribution, it is now possible to model that components can fail more, or less, likely due to age. This can be extremely useful, but only in scenarios where the corresponding input data is available. Make sure to check out the modeling examples section in the user documentation for information on when this can be of interest – and when it’s simply not.