Discover - Analysis Phase
These are the necessary facts before creating a new case ( Case is the most important part in this software).
Scope includes: People, Use Cases, Operating Modes, and User Defined Scopes.
To identify the people’s interaction with the attraction. By default, ADVANTIS provides 5 different types of people: Passenger, Participant, Spectator, Technician, and Operator.
To determine the use cases. By default, ADVANTIS provides 4 different use cases: Regular Operation, Preventive Maintenance, Irregular Operation, and Reactive Maintenance.
To identify the areas of the attraction.
Determine the tasks performed by the people on the attraction (who is doing what). A task is a description of who is doing what and where in a particular use case.
Identify the hazards of performing each task and create the case accordingly. Once tasks are defined, the next step is to go through each task and identify the hazard of performing that task (what went wrong). This process is called hazard identification. As a result, new cases are created.
In accordance with the Industry Standard EN13814-1:2019 Appendix, ADVANTIS has 25 Hazards preloaded.
This is the most important part of the software.
In the New case box:
➜ Select a task from the list or click New task to create a new one
➜ Select a predefined hazard from the list or click New hazard to create a new one
➜ Type in the Hazardous Event
➜ Type in the Case ID
➜ Type in the Case Title
A case contains three elements: Hazard Identification, Initial Risk Estimation & Evaluation, and Risk Reduction Measures.
Show detailed information on Tasks, Hazards, and Hazardous Events
Immediately after Hazard Identification. Doing the initial assessment is important without any safety measures in place. Complete the Initial Risk Estimation via the system-level risk assessment method that has been selected when creating the project:
- If the system-level risk assessment method is a Risk Matrix, the Initial Risk Estimation will be:
- If the system-level risk assessment method is Numerical Scoring, the Initial Risk Estimation will be:
If the initial risk estimation yields an unacceptable risk level, then risk reductions must take place in an iterative manner until the risk is reduced to an acceptable level. There are three measure types:
- Design: Measure to reduce the risk by suitable choices of design features of the application itself and/or the interaction between the exposed persons and the application.
- Controls: Measure to reduce risk by appropriately selected safeguarding and complementary protective measures
- Operations: Measure to reduce risk by operating procedures, working practices, sufficient information, and personal protective equipment. This operational instruction will be part of the ride manual
There are 5 report options:
- Project Scope Report
- Risk Assessment Report
- Safety Requirement Specification Report is for the controls engineers
- Risk Reduction Report
- The Transferred Risk Report contains information that is out of scope. E.g. by a DRA the fence. So the designer could forward this report to the customer (the park). In case the customer is using Advantis also, this report could be transferred to the customer within Advantis.
A powerful search that lets you find the cases over all your projects
Input a keyword (E.g. Load) in the search field in the header bar ➜ Click on the 
icon
A case list will be shown with the cases corresponding to that keyword (E.g. Load)
A project template includes the basic items of a project:
You can duplicate any project.
You can duplicate a case for another project
To identify the Terms and Definitions of the project.
To identify the Abbreviations of the project.
Scope includes: People, Use Cases, Operating Modes, and User Defined Scopes.
To identify the people’s interaction with the attraction. By default, ADVANTIS provides 5 different types of people: Passenger, Participant, Spectator, Technician, and Operator.
To determine the use cases. By default, ADVANTIS provides 4 different use cases: Regular Operation, Preventive Maintenance, Irregular Operation, and Reactive Maintenance.
To determine the operating modes of the machine, and associate those modes to use cases by default, ADVANTIS provides 2 different operating modes: Automatic, and Maintenance.
To determine the use of defined scopes.
You can duplicate any project.
You can duplicate a case for another project
- Copy within the case to duplicate the Risk Reduction Measure into its own case.
- Copy to another case to duplicate the Risk Reduction Measure to another case.
- Copy to another project to duplicate the item to another project.
- Copy to the template to duplicate the item to the template.
- Copy within the project to duplicate the item into its own project.
- Copy to another case to duplicate the item to another project.
- Copy to the template to duplicate the item to the template.
To identify the Terms and Definitions of the project.
To identify the Abbreviations of the project.
The risk matrix has 2 ranges:
- Probability of Occurrence (Horizontal range): By default, ADVANTIS provides five different levels of Probability of Occurrence, which are A.Improbable, B.Remote, C.Low, D.Moderate, and E.High.
- The Severity of Consequence (Vertical range): By default, ADVANTIS provides four different levels of Severity of Consequence, which are 1.Catastrophic, 2.Severe, 3. Minor, and 4. Insignificant.
The probability of Occurrence and Severity of Consequence are both related to the unwanted event. The Association of each pair’s Probability of Occurrence and Severity of Consequence will give a Risk Level. By default, ADVANTIS provides three different types of Risk Levels, which are Tolerable, Undesirable, and Intolerable.
To identify participants of the project. There are 2 participant types:
- Authors/Editors: this will appear in the PDF report under the Authors/Editors section.
- Engineers/Reviewers: Engineers are given write access to the assigned project. Reviewers are given read-only access to the assigned project.
Attraction Specification Attachment will be added to the Introduction chapter of the Risk Assessment Report and Safety Requirement Specification Report.
