Category Archives: Data and samples
How much data is required for RA?
What is the minimum number of failure events needed for Reliability Analysis (RA)? If a company does not have good historical data do we have to wait for those events to occur before being able to build predictive models? A … Continue reading
Achieving Reliability from Data
The following is a Conference slide presentation that introduces the principles of Living RCM (LRCM).
Real meaning of the six RCM curves
You may be wondering about the famous “RCM curves” shown below in Figure 1. They are the Age-Reliability behavior curves which graph the Conditional Probability of failure against age. A common question is the following. “For the 139 items covered … Continue reading
Posted in Data and samples, RCM, Reliability Analysis, Theory and definitions
Tagged Optimization, RCM, Suspension, Weibull
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Failure declaration standards
A reliability engineer points out that in a mining operation hydraulic leaks in the fleet equipment are a major source of lost production. So during regular inspections the technicians are looking for leaks and if they find them they change … Continue reading
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Tagged Mistaking failure for suspension, Potential failure, Suspension
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Posted in Data and samples, EAM, RCM, RcmAnal, Reliability Analysis, Theory and definitions
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