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RAM COMMANDER

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RAM COMMANDER

RAM Commander is a comprehensive software tool for Reliability and Maintainability Analysis and Prediction, Spares Optimisation, FMEA/FMECA, Testability, Fault Tree Analysis, Event Tree Analysis and Safety Assessment.

Its reliability and safety modules cover all widely known reliability standards and failure analysis approaches. RAM Commander is indispensable tool for ensuring reliability of sophisticated systems.

Ram Commander Screen

RAM Commander is modular software allowing a customer the flexibility of gradual addition of the modules to the package in accordance with the requirements of a project or the budget constraints.

Advanced Specialty Engineering Networked Toolkit (Asent)

See also Advanced Specialty Engineering Networked Toolkit (Asent)
for a Powerful Client/Server alternative

Modules cover:

Reliability Prediction
Reliability Block Diagram with Monte Carlo Simulation
Maintainability – RCM
Spare Parts Analysis & Optimisation
Markov Chain
Stress – Strength Analysis
MSG-3
Derating Guidelines and Reports

FMECA Analysis
Testability Analysis
Process & design FMEA
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
Event Tree Analysis (ETA)
Safety Assessment
Master Minimum Equipment List (MMEL)

Reliability Prediction

 


RAM Commander provides everything necessary for primary reliability prediction based on one of the prediction models for electronic equipment, mechanical and electro-mechanical equipment. Graphical presentation of the projects Product Tree allows visibility and easy data manipulation.

reliability predictor ram product tree

Product Tree Table.

Performing reliability allocation, Pareto analysis, RAM sensitivity analysis producing temperature curves and mission profile are extremely easy with RAM Commander.

Ram Commander Pareto Analysis

Pareto Report. Pareto analysis identifies components or component families that contribute most significantly to system or assembly failure rate – about 80% of total failure rate

Ram Commander Temp Curve

Temperature Curve Report. Presents the failure rate or MTBF as a unction of temperature: regular, multi-environment & multi-items on one graph.

Ram Commander Fail

Field Failure Rate Module

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MIL-HDBK-217
TR332 – Bellcore Issue 6
SR332 – Telcordia 2001
RDF 95 – French Telecom
UTEC 80810 (CNET 2000)
HRD – British Telecom
GJB299 – Chinese Standard
IRPH93 – Italtel
ALCATEL
RADC 85-91
NPRD-95
NSWC-98/LE1 Mechanics
Siemens SN 29500-1
FIDES

IEC 62380[/bsf-info-box]

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Sensitivity analysis & trade-offs
R & M allocation/apportionment
RAM Data management
Field failure rates conversion
Mission Profile Analysis
ILS/LSA Support
RBD with Monte Carlo simulation
Reliability estimation of various system configurations
Spare Parts optimisation
Derating guidelines and reports
Fault Tree Analysis
Risk Analysis[/bsf-info-box]

RAM Commander produces all commonly required reliability reports and allows the user to define customised reports.

Reliability Block Diagram (RBD)

RBD module allows performing the functional Reliability and Availability analysis of systems with variety of reliability distributions, and types of redundancy and repair factors. While the basic RAM Commander module provides the reliability calculations and predictions for non-redundant systems, RBD utilizes data defined in the basic module, and performs either analytical calculation or Monte Carlo simulation depending on the type of a reliability configuration of the system.

The analytical technique is used mostly for exponential distributions. For each RBD, a graph of the reliability function R(t) can be drawn and MTBCF (Mean Time Between Critical Failures) can be calculated using numeric integration.

Reliability Block Diagram

Reliability Block Diagram

Reliability Block Diagram

MTBCF graph

System Configuration feature of the RBD module is an ingenious answer to the requests of our customers who need to compare the reliability and availability of various system configurations created as the sub-sets of the project product tree. The creation of the unlimited number of system configurations, easy transformation of each configuration into an RBD, MTBCF calculation, synchronised with the product tree changes, and finally a clear and elegant graphical presentation – all this makes the System Configuration feature an invaluable addition to the RAM Commander performance.

System-Configuration

System Configuration Table

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Parallel
K-out-of-N with active (hot) redundancy
K-out-of-N with stand-by (cold) redundancy
Partially loaded K-out-of-N – warm redundancy
K-out-of-N w/repair, w/o repair, w/restricted repair
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Monte Carlo simulation with its’ high speed, accuracy, and large number of steps allows to evaluate Reliability and Availability for arbitrary configurations when there is no analytical solution, i.e. complex configurations, including standby, partially loaded and active redundancy; full or restricted repair with non-exponential distribution of time-to-repair; analysis under non-steady, transient state; dependent RBD elements; analysis of periodical inspection policy.

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Normal
Log-Normal
Weibull
Erlang
Uniform[/bsf-info-box]
Maintainability

Maintainability Prediction and Analysis in RAM Commander is based on the MIL-HDBK-472, Procedure V, Method A. Maintainability module is used to predict maintainability of systems and equipment of any type, including avionics, ground and shipboard electronics, mechanical equipment, etc., at all levels of maintenance.

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Maintainability procedure definition

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Maintenance Engineering Analysis report

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Corrective Maintenance procedure per element or Failure Mode
Preventive Maintenance procedures per element or Failure Mode
Preventive Maintenance procedure frequency optimisation
Standard Times and Standard Tasks libraries
List of required skills, equipment and materials for each task
Skills, Equipment and Materials Libraries
RCM (Reliability-Centered Maintenance)
A wide range of reports for Maintainability Analysis
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Spare Parts Analysis & Optimisation:

 

RAM Commander Spare Parts Analysis and Optimisation is based on two cost optimisation criteria: Total No Shortage Probability & Availability. The module performs Cost-Availability optimisation of repairable and discardable parts for all levels of repair. Spare Parts Analysis and Optimisation module takes into account the variety of mission applications, e.g., when the primary restriction is weight or volume, such as for fly-away kits or when no repair or supply of spare parts is permitted (unsupported mission). Data entry for the module is minimised due to the usage of the data used in the RAM project.

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Spare Parts Optimization

Markov Chain:

The Markov chain technique and its mathematical model have been demonstrated over years to be a powerful tool to analyze the evolution, performance and reliability of physical systems.

RAM Commander’s Markov is a powerful tool with the following features:

  • Up-to-date, intuitive and powerful Markov Chain diagram interface with possibilities of full control over the diagram: elements location, colours, styles, zooms etc.
  • Convenient ways of diagram printing and simple Copy & Paste transfer to other applications
  • Calculation of Steady-State Mode
  • Calculation of Time-Dependency Mode
  • Calculation of Availability, Unavailability, Failure and Repair rate and frequency, MTBF, MTTF, MTTR, Reliability/Unreliability and other system parameters
  • Results output:
    • System parameters for selected times as table or graph
    • State probabilities for selected times as table or graph
    • Steady-State results report
    • Transition Matrix report
    • States and Transitions data report
    • Results export to Excel, Word, HTML formats.
markov module
markov module output

Stress – Strength Analysis

Stress/Strength Analysis – Structural/Mechanical Analysis of Components and Systems Stress/Strength analysis method determines the probability of failure based on the probability of stress exceeding strength.

Calculation of Failure Probability (Unreliability) by:

  • Distributions of Stress and Strength
  • Variation information between Stress and Strength (Factor of Safety n and Variations)
stress strength analysis
stress-strength-unreliability_calculation

Having distributions of Stress and Strength, we may calculate failure probability (Unreliability):

stress-strength-unreliability figure

Having variation information between stress and strength (Factor of Safety n and Variations), we may also calculate the unreliability:

MSG-3

RAM Commander MSG-3 module is used by aircraft manufacturers or aircraft operators (airlines) to perform aircraft Scheduled Maintenance Development analysis according to Air Transport Association (ATA) Maintenance Steering Group 3 (MSG-3) document..

According to ATA, the ATA MSG-3 publication outlines a decision-logic process for determining initial scheduled maintenance requirements for new aircraft and/or power plants. This document presents a means for developing maintenance tasks and intervals acceptable to regulatory authorities, operators and manufacturers. The analysis has the objective to maintain an inherent safety level and to achieve an optimal balance between maintenance costs and reliability.

RAM Commander’s MSG-3 module main features:

  • Intuitive step-by-step procedure
  • Integration with Reliability and FMECA analysis modules
  • Interactive decision diagrams
  • Final report generation is MS Word
  • Customisable MS Word report template

The MSG-3 module is integrated with RAM Commander Reliability and FMECA modules. It divides the procedure into 7 steps including system definition, maintenance significant items selection, failure effect categorisation, task selection and development and report generation.

MSG menu screen diagram

It brings user through the decision-making process using interactive decision diagrams taken from the standard:

MSG failure effect diagram

As an output of the procedure user gets final report generated in MS-Word with all the data inside. Report is generated based on customizable MS Word template; user may change the template design.

msg analysis report

Derating

The Derating module is used to analyse the over-stress of components under current temperature conditions. The module provides a tool to define Derating curves and identify overstressed components, i.e., those working under stress exceeding the specified rating value. Rating, or maximum rated stress, is the specified value of temperature, power, voltage or current that define the absolute maximum stress limits. Exceeding these values creates a high probability of part damage/failure.

The maximum rating is specified in the part specifications or in standard for this type of part. It is a well known practice in many companies to define limit values of stress for various components as a function of temperature. These limits, “Derating curves”, are part of the company policy of component usage. A report created by the Derating module includes all components in the selected part of the system, or only the overstressed ones. Derating reports with indication of overstressed parts.

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Intended for electronic designers Common database with R &M prediction

User-definable Derating Guidelines Clear indication of overstressed parts in reports

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Libraries and Data Import

RAM Commander enables the user to access and use various sources of reliability information: extensive RAM Commander or user-defined component libraries, field data or data imported with the help of Import Wizard.

FMECA

Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) is a natural continuation, and in many cases inseparable part of the Reliability Analysis. Previously a separate software package, FMECA is now a fully-integrated RAM Commander module. FMECA module uses a product tree previously created by the user for the reliability analysis purposes.

The RAM Commander FMECA module is suitable for both hardware and functional approaches to FMECA, and fully complies with MIL-STD-1629 A, commercial standards, and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements.

FMECA Product Tree Diagram

RAM Commander FMECA module makes the FMEA process easy and visible: the product tree and the corresponding to each item sequence of Failure Modes => Next Higher Effects => End Effects are totally visible in the same window.

Extensive use of the FMECA Libraries facilitates the process even more and contributes to the accuracy of the performed analyses and reports. You can perform both the FMEA and FMECA calculating failure mode ratios, conditional probabilities and item criticality numbers.

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Failure Modes
End Effects & Severities
Failure Mode Full Description
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FMECA
Criticality Analysis – MIL-STD-1629
End Effects Criticality
Numbers
Criticality Matrix
Fault Tree
NHE Criticality
Test methods
BIT/Detection Coverage
Fault Isolation Resolution[/bsf-info-box]

Testability Analysis

Testability Analysis sub-module of the FMECA module is intended for in-depth Testability analysis. The main characteristics of Testability – BIT/Detection Coverage and Fault Isolation Resolution – can be calculated for each maintenance level (Organisational, Intermediate, Depot) and for specific detection methods (BIT, BITE, external test equipment, etc.). Test method efficiency and indication are defined for each test method or a group of test methods.

Test FMCEA Coverage report

Testability analysis is widely used for the development of necessary supporting documentation: maintenance manuals, troubleshooting procedures and inspection requirements.

Process & Design FMEA

Formerly a separate package, Process and Design FMEA is now fully integrated in RAM Commander. This module performs Process/Design potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.

The uniqueness of the RAM Commander approach to process/design FMEA is reflected in the graphical presentation of the process flow:

FMEA Project Diagram

Main window of the RAM Commander Process & Design FMEA

Decompose the system or process into components or sub-processes. For each functional block, define name & function, enter failure mode causes and effects manually or from the libraries. Process & Design FMEA module provides full graphical and textual visibility of the Potential Failure Mode => Cause => Effects chain.

FMEA Edit Cause Of Failure

Edit cause dialog contains corrective actions and RPN (risk priority number

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The manner in which a component, subsystem, or system could potentially fail to meet the design intent. The potential failure mode could also be the cause of a potential failure mode in a higher level subsystem or system, or be the effect of a potential failure

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Supports the concurrent updating of FMEA documents
Compliant with safety and hazard analysis standards
Assures isolation and elimination of all critical failure modes & causes
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Process and Design FMEA produce all the reports required by PFMEA: design FMEA, Process FMEA, Pareto analysis, regular FMEA with all NHE, basic fault tree

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

RAM Commander’s FTA (Fault Tree Analysis) software module is the one of the unique features of the RAM Commander. It is simplified FTAnalyzer, fully integrated with RAM Commander product tree,reliability prediction and FMECA. It implements and summarises the first-hand experience gained by the FTA experts in hundreds of projects using RAM Commander and other software tools from our portfolio.

Fault Tree Analysis Module

Main window of the RAM Commander Fault Tree Analysis Module

Fault Tree Analysis is one of the most widely used methods in system reliability and failure probability analysis. A fault tree is a graphical representation of a logical structure representing undesired events (“failures”) and their causes. You create the logical structure by using gates and represent undesired events by using basic events. Reliability parameters are assigned to the basic events. Widely used in system reliability studies, fault tree analysis offers the ability to focus on an event of importance, such as a highly critical safety issue, and work to minimize its occurrence or consequence. The probability of the top-level event can then be determined by using mathematical techniques. The resulting fault tree diagram is a graphical representation of the chain of events in your system or process, built using events and logical gate configurations.

FTA Basic Event data

FTA Basic Event data

Example of FTA Unavailability and MCS Analysis report

Example of FTA Unavailability and MCS Analysis report

Example of FTA Importance and Sensitivity Analysis report

Example of FTA Importance and Sensitivity Analysis report

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Handy methods for diagram printing and simple Copy & Paste transfer to other applications
Easy to use Events Library
Generation of Minimal Cut Sets
Calculation of Unavailability Q(t), Mean Unavailability Q
Calculation of Importance and Sensitivity
Calculation of Frequency W(t) and Intensity L(t)
Calculation of Unreliability F(t) and Number of Failures E(0,t)
Set of required reports – FTA diagram, MCS, events library etc
Link between FTA and the product tree
Link between FTA and FMECA modules
Integration with Safety analysis module
Automatically build FTA from FMECA
Automatically build FTA from FMEA
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Two types of analysis can be conducted using Fault Trees:

  • Qualitative Analysis: performed by means of Minimal Cut Sets (MCS) building
  • Quantitative Analysis: calculating the Absolute probabilities, i.e. the probabilities of system failures

Fault Tree Analysis is acknowledged as a key tool for increasing safety. It is unique and indispensable in analysing risks and determining various combinations of hardware, software, and human error failures that result in a specified risk or system failure. Fault tree analysis is useful both in designing new products/services and in dealing with identified problems in existing products/services. In the quality planning process, the analysis can be used to optimise process features and goals and to design for critical factors and human error. As part of process improvement, it can be used to help identify root causes of trouble and to design remedies and countermeasures.

After Unavailability calculation and MCS analysis, Importance and Sensitivity Analysis may be performed. Importance analysis results help to select those fault tree events, which contribute most to the system’s unavailability. Sensitivity analysis helps to choose those events, where a relatively small change will lead to a relatively large system unavailability changes. Calculated values are Fussell-Vesely importance (FV Imp), Risk Decrease Factor (RDF), Fractional Contribution (FC), Risk Increase Factor (RIF) and Sensitivity Value for each Basic or Undeveloped Event.

FTA is used by other RAM Commander modules – the Safety Assessment Software Module (compatible with aviation safety requirements, SAE ARP4761 and other standards) and MMEL (Master Minimum Equipment List analysis for aviation industry).

Event Tree Analysis (ETA)

Event Trees are one of the most widely used methods in system risk analysis. It is an inductive failure analysis performed to determine the consequences of single failure for the overall system risk or reliability. Event Tree Analysis uses similar logic and mathematics as Fault Tree Analysis, but the approach is different – FTA uses deductive approach (from system failure to it’s reasons) and ETA uses the inductive approach (from basic failure to it’s consequences). An event tree itself is a visual representation of single failure sequences, it’s influence on other events and on the whole system.

Main window of the RAM Commander Event Tree Analysis Module

Main window of the RAM Commander Event Tree Analysis Module

ETA Module Features

  • User-friendly and convenient tree building interface (zoom, export to clipboard as metafile, print, etc.)
  • Customisable graphical representation (diagram elements colours, styles etc.)
  • Events Library
  • Event Probability assessment models:
    • user-defined
    • calculated (repairable/unrepairable/constant mission time/periodical tests)
    • linked to product tree element
    • linked to FMECA Failure Mode, NHE or End Effect
    • linked to Fault Tree basic event
    • linked to Fault Tree gate or tree top event
  • Different Event logic types:
    • Binary logic
      • True/False
      • Success/Failure
    • Multiple alternatives (for events where not only True/False or Success/Failure outcomes are considered)
  • Different Event probability types
    • Equal event probabilities in all sequences
    • Different event probabilities in different sequences (conditional probabilities)

Safety Assessment – based on SAE ARP4761

The safety assessment process has fundamental importance in establishing appropriate safety objectives for the System Under Analysis (SUA) and determining that the implementation satisfies these objectives. The safety assessment process is iterative by nature; using RAM Commander to support all necessary iterations and to produce all required output is the easy, accurate and time-saving way to do the safety assessment.

RAM Commander Safety Assessment Software Module implements tasks of qualitative and quantitative safety assessment required during system development:
• Generation and verification of safety requirements;
• Identification of all relevant failure conditions;
• Consideration of all significant combinations of failures causing failure conditions;
• Generation of output reports starting from the stage of Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA/PHA) and ending by the System Safety Assessment (SSA) verifying that the design meets safety requirements. Reports are generated as MS Word documents using customisable MS Word templates.
• AFO (Russian standard required by AR MAC) support
• System Hazard Assessment and O&SHA according to MIL-STD-882. Reports are generated as MS Word documents using customisable MS Word templates.

Master Minimum Equipment List (MMEL)

The Master Minimum Equipment List (MMEL) is a document which lists the equipment that may temporarily be inoperative, subject to certain conditions, whilst maintaining an acceptable level of safety as intended in the applicable documents. Each MMEL document is specific to an aircraft type.

MMEL analysis is required for all aircraft manufacturers to certify aircraft safety in different aviation authorities such as FAA, EASA etc.

RAM Commander integrated MMEL module supports Master Minimum Equipment List generation using Reliability, FMECA, FHA (Safety) and FTA modules results.

RAM Commander's MMEL

Below is an example of standard MMEL 5-column report as generated by RAM Commander:

MMEL 5-column report

RAM Commander’s MMEL module main features:

• Compliance with MMEL requirements
• Integration with aircraft Reliability and Safety analyses modules
• Candidate Item selection
• Calculation(s) of Expected Probability before and after failure
• Automatic identification of the next (first in flight) and second worst failures
• Reports generation:
• Standard MMEL: “Five Column Format” – presents the standard MMEL report
• Detailed Quantitative Analysis – presents results of analysis on which MMEL selection has been made

MMEL module provides several algorithms for MMEL candidate selection:
• Algorithm  based on JAA MMEL development guidelines
• Algorithm implementing RRJ – 95/75 guidelines
User may select appropriate algorithm for system analysis.


Please contact us for further information on any of our products and services or if you simply wish to find out how RAM COMMANDER can help your organisation.

 

Functional Packages

PREDICTOR
  • 5 Standard Operating Reliability Prediction Methods
  • BOM Builder, Temperature Curves, Mission Profile, and Import Wizard
  • Full set of ready-to-print Reliability Reports
  • Enhanced Report Generator for user defined reports
RELIABILITY PRO
  • 5 Standard Operating Reliability Prediction Methods
  • BOM Builder, Temperature Curves, Mission Profile, and Import Wizard
  • User Defined Components Reliability Data Module
  • Full set of ready-to-print Reliability Reports
  • Enhanced Report Generator for user defined reports
  • Components Library Module (over 400k components)
  • RBD – Reliability Block Diagram
MAINTAINABILITY PRO
  • Maintainability Module (according to MIL-STD-472 Procedure 5A)
  • Built in libraries for Tasks, Times, STE, Skills, and Materials
  • Maintenance Engineering Report (MEA Report)
  • Maintenance Task Analysis Report
  • Full set of ready-to-print Reliability Reports
  • ILS Supprt Fields (user defined)
  • BOM Builder, Temperature Curves, Mission Profile & Import Wizard
  • Enhanced Report Generator for user defined reports
  • RCM/MSG-3 Module
  • FMECA Module
FAILURE ANALYSIS & ISOLATION
  • BOM Builder, and Import Wizard
  • FMECA (covering both Hardware & Functional) Module
  • Customizable FMECA Worksheet
  • FTA Module
  • FMECA Import/Export
  • Testability Module
  • Full set of FMECA & FTA ready-to-print Reports
  • Full set of ready-to-print Testability Reports including graphical trouble shooting, fault isolation, etc.
  • FMD-97 Library
  • Enhanced Report Generator for user defined reports
SAFETY ASSESSMENT
  • SSA supporting IEC 61508 (Safety Standard for Safety Instrumented Systems) and MIL-STD-882D (SHA, O&SHA), SAE, ARP 4754A, and ARP4761
  • Customisable FMECA Worksheet
  • FTA Module
  • RBD Module
  • Markov Chains Module
  • FMECA Import/Export
  • Full set of ready-to-print Safety Reports
  • Enhanced Report Generator for user defined reports
AVIATION SAFETY
  • SSA & FHA according to SAE, ARP 4754A, ARP4761, and FAR 25 1309b
  • FTA including ready-to print reports
  • MSG-3 (System, Zonal, and Structural) including ready-to-print reports
  • MMEL including ready-to-print 5-column report
  • FMECA including ready-to-print FMECA reports, BOM Builder, and Import Wizard
  • Enhanced Report Generator for user defined reports
  • Report Template Utility for layout customisation
  • Six Sigma Distance e-learning
    1st March 2014
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    EAGLE Conference 21-24 October 2013 !
    6th August 2013
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    19th March 2014
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    LOCKHEED MARTIN have selected FavoWeb for the JSF (F35) Project
    17th March 2014
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    RAM Commander ver 8.5 is now released!
    6th March 2015
  • FREE Seminar on the World Leading FRACAS Tool
    6th July 2014
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