History of APIS IQ-Software

They copied all they could follow
but they couldn't copy my mind
so I left them sweating and stealing
a year and a half behind.

    Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

1988: Start of Development

Development of a first prototype of a FMEA System as a part of a Diagnosis System. This prototype already had:

  • the structure (including structure editor and FFA)
  • the form layout with arrangement effects-failure types-causes which was later (1996) taken over by VDA
  • function and fault trees
  • WYSIWYG standard for all editors

1992: Market Entry of IQ-FMEA

  • Direct editing in the form was restricted to enforce methodical consistency ('top down' : a dependent object could only be introduced when the corresponding independent object existed).
  • WYSIWYG printing

1993-1995

  • Statistics Editor
  • Support for multilingual data contents
  • GUI languages: German, English, French, Spanish
  • Drag&drop supported
  • MIL standard
  • RTF export
  • Export and import of structures
  • FMEA layout QS9000
  • Direct translation in the form for all layouts
  • Integration of failure trees and event trees into the failure net for a standardized non-redundant model
  • Context sensitive help
  • Multilingual notes in the FMEA form
  • fault tree analysis (FTA)

1998

  • Control Plan (QS-9000)
  • Process Flow Diagram (QS-9000)
  • Access rights for structures
  • Unrestricted data input in forms ('middle out' instead of 'top down')
  • HTML Export from FMEA forms
  • Notification of responsible persons via email
  • Export and Import in SGML format (later XML) as open source standard for data exchange with other systems
  • Versioning support for all forms (FMEA, PDF, CP)
  • All labels user defined
  • User defined valuation catalogues
  • User defined palettes

2000

  • Complete 'undo' mechanism
  • Complete integration of PFD and CP
  • Flow diagram integrated into PDF
  • IQ Explorer for knowledge management
  • Excel import of FMEA forms
  • Diagnosis support in failure nets
  • Support for complex filtering in forms
  • Auto-filter in forms
  • HTML support in notes
  • Personal Information Manager (PIM)
  • Presentation print
  • Integrated assistant

2002

  • APIS CARM-Server
    • CSS Module
    • CSS Action Tracking
    • CSS List
    • CARM Server Web Front End (r/o)
  • User defined attributes
  • User defined labels
  • Structure variants
  • Ishikawa editors
  • Symbolic deadlines
  • Symbolic Responsibility
  • Integrated Requirement management (IQ MORE)

2004

  • APIS CARM-Server: CSA Web publisher

2006

  • User defined views
  • Statistics: Structure based Pareto analysis
  • DRBFM

2007

  • IQ CT Analysis (Customized Tool)
  • IQ CT Form (Customized Tool)
  • IQ CT Action (Customized Tool)
  • Functional safety according to IEC 61508
  • FTA with minimum cut set computation
  • Learning units (CBT)
  • Simultaneous Engineering with clones

2009

  • Operating conditions, failure detections, and failure reactions in failure nets ("Mechatronics FMEA")
  • Complete Unicode support (also for Asian languages)
  • Support for current standards of VDA and AIAG
  • Enhanced Object Inspector
  • Statistics (Risk matrix)
  • Statistics: difference analysis, frequency analysis and action tracking based on structures
  • Complete web-front end for tracing actions(CARM NG)
  • Simultaneous Engineering: Component Interfaces
  • Simultaneous Engineering: Requirement interfaces
  • Filter opportunities for all editors
  • Global actions