Category Archives: Reliability Analysis
Failure probability prior to attaining MTTF
The article “What is the scale parameter” showed that 63% of randomly failing items or items adhering to Weibull failure behavier will fail prior to attaining their MTTF. Generally speaking, the MTTF is not a good decision guide for the … Continue reading
MESH – RCM knowledge continuous improvement
What befalls the RCM analysis once it is completed and the ensuing PM program uploaded into the EAM? Too often it gathers dust, and fades eventually into distant memory. Only a pale reflection of the intensive mental energy expended in … Continue reading
Training course in achieving reliability from data
Expensive critical equipment generates overwhelming volumes of data. Maintenance personnel try repeatedly, with little success, to interpret that data so as to predict when and where failure will next occur. Yet the maintenance engineer lacks systematic techniques with which to … Continue reading
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LRCM – Reporting failure modes of rotable components
Living RCM demands that the technician transmit accurate, consistent information regarding the failure mode(s) found during the execution of a work order. But what if the technician does not know which failure mode in a removable complex component actually occurred? Introduction … Continue reading
Posted in Data and samples, LRCM, RCM
Tagged LRCM, Reliability engineer, RULE, Sample
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Does historical age data have value?
The following is a quote from a well known consultant: The biggest problem we have is lack of data… The data we do have in most cases is subject to different conditions as well. So if I have managed to … Continue reading
Posted in CBM, Data and samples, EAM, Reliability Analysis
Tagged CBM and CMMS, EXAKT, Failure data
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