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Issue 68, October 2006 |
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Dont Let Your Event/Maintenance Log Data Go to Waste
Companies are increasingly relying
on information to run their businesses and stay competitive. More aggressive
productivity goals and globalization needs are putting higher pressure on
companies to increase the efficiency and availability of their assets. In
this competitive environment, one companys downtime can become another
company's opportunity. Obtaining relevant data about the failures and
repairs of assets is central to achieving company goals.
One very valuable kind of data that
is collected in the manufacturing, process, oil, machine tools and
communication industries is the log of failures and repairs of physical
assets such as machines, airplanes, computers, servers, trucks and oil
refineries. This information can provide many insights about failure modes,
outages, their frequencies, the repair duration, uptime/downtime and
availability. It can aid in gaining knowledge required for critical business
performance improvements.
The volume of this type of data can
become very large and the task of extracting useful and concise information
can also become cumbersome. This article highlights some of the
functionalities of Weibull++ 7 that can be utilized to facilitate the
processing of event or maintenance logs that your company might be keeping
track of.
To read more, see
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue68/hottopics68.htm
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Reliability Basics |
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How to Simplify Complex RBDs with a Commonly Used
Distribution
System reliability analysis relies on deriving a system
reliability equation (cumulative density function, cdf, and/or
probability density function, pdf) from the Reliability Block Diagram
(RBD) of a system. The derived equations can be used to calculate various
reliability metrics. The pdf and cdf can easily become complex
equations as the RBDs become more complex and the distributions of the
blocks in the RBDs become more varied.
Often, reliability analysts need to approximate a system's RBD with a
simple distribution. In this article, we explain an approach for simplifying
RBDs with a simple representative common distribution using
BlockSim 6 and Weibull++ 7.
To read more, see
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue68/relbasics68.htm
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Tool Tips |
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Updates |
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New service releases are now available for
BlockSim
(SR 6.5.4) and Weibull++ (SR
7.1.3). To determine the compile revision of the application on your
computer, select About from the Help menu.
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Hot News |
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New Xfmea and RCM++ Features Coming
- ReliaSoft will soon be releasing a new version of Xfmea and RCM++
that provides many enhancements and exciting new features. One of
these key features will allow authorized users to activate a
Change Log for a particular analysis, which records a version
history and a log of every change to the original analysis. The
software will also provide an integrated utility to support
Design Review Based on Failure Mode (DRBFM) analysis, which is
used in the automotive and other industries to evaluate proposed
changes to an existing design. For more information on these and
other new features that will be available in the Version 4 release,
see
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ReliaSoft at
ESREL 2006
- We would like to thank everyone who
stopped by our booth at the
2006 European Safety and Reliability Association Conference (ESREL)
last month. It
was great seeing our old friends and making new ones. We look
forward to hearing more from you over the course of the year! |
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2007
ARS Call for Presentations
- The 2007 Applied
Reliability Symposium in
Chennai, India
scheduled for
April 19 - 20, 2007
is
currently accepting presentation proposals that address the
Symposium theme: "Sharing
applications, success stories and lessons learned in reliability and
maintainability engineering." The deadline for proposal
submissions is November 1, 2006. Subjects that will be
covered in the 2007 Symposium include, but are not limited to:
- Warranty reduction
- Reliability as an investment,
not a cost
- Specifying reliability and
reliability metrics
- Supplier management
- Data collection, management and
analysis
- Reliability and safety
- Reliability and market share
- Reliability testing
- Software reliability
- Manufacturing reliability
For more information, please visit
the ARS Web site at
http://www.ARSymposium.org/india/presenters or e-mail
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Worldwide
Public Seminar Calendar for 2007
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ReliaSoft has
announced the public seminar schedule for 2007. This includes an
extensive array of
reliability training courses, including the essential
5-day
MSMT Foundations seminar, held at locations throughout the
world. To find a seminar that meets your needs, consult the on-line
calendar at
http://Seminars.ReliaSoft.com/dates.htm. Now is your opportunity
to plan all of your 2007 training in advance before our classes fill
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New Class Added!
-ReliaSoft has recently added
RS
490 Introduction to Standards Based Reliability Prediction
and Lambda Predict to our course catalog.
This two-day course introduces standards based reliability
prediction analysis with hands-on training in the use of ReliaSoft's
Lambda Predict
software. The emphasis is on how to maximize the benefits of Lambda
Predict and its wide range of capabilities. The course covers the
three most commonly used Reliability prediction standards
(MIL-HDBK-217, Bellcore and NSWC Mechanical) with brief coverage of
RDF 2000 and China 299B. The first publicly scheduled event is
coming up soon (November 30 - December 1, 2006)! For more
information, please visit
http://Seminars.ReliaSoft.com/gencourses/rs490.htm. |
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Public
Training Event Calendar |
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October
2006 |
| October
18 - 20, 2006:
RS 525 Probabilistic Event
Analysis
in
Tucson, Arizona |
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23 - 27, 2006:
MSMT Foundations
in
Frankfurt, Germany |
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November
2006 |
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November 6 - 10, 2006:
RS 540 Repairable Systems
Analysis
in
Melbourne, Australia |
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November 13 - 17, 2006:
MSMT Foundations
in
Melbourne, Australia |
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November 13 - 17, 2006:
MSMT Foundations
in
Tucson, Arizona |
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November 27 - December 1, 2006:
RS 540 Repairable Systems
Analysis
in
Singapore |
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November 30 - December 1, 2006:
RS 490 Intro to Standards
Based Reliability Prediction and Lambda Predict
in
Tucson, Arizona |
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December
2006 |
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December 6 - 8, 2006:
RS 511 Adv. Reliability Growth Analysis
in
Tucson, Arizona |
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December 6 - 8, 2006:
RS 521 Advanced QALT in
Tucson, Arizona |
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December 11 - 12, 2006:
RS 401(C) Life Data Analysis (Condensed)
in
Chennai, India |
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December 13 - 14, 2006:
RS 522(C) Advanced System Analysis (Condensed)
in
Chennai, India |
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