Category Archives: Reliability Analysis
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
Tagged Terminology
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RCM vs RA
Is RCM a form of Reliability Analysis (RA)? RA is the counting of failure and suspension events in order to understand the behavior pattern of a component or failure mode. RCM practitioners sometimes refer to the Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) … Continue reading
Purpose of RA
The purpose of reliability analysis (RA) is to build, assess the performance of, and continually improve maintenance policies. By a “maintenance policy” we mean a rule or process to be used for decision support. Why do we need policies? We … Continue reading
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