I got an email saying that the exida's www.SILSafeData.com minimum failure rates were way too high. The email went on to say that his REAL field failure data showed a result of 150 FITS for a remote actuated valve assembly. The lowest SILSafeData limits for clean service, Class IV leakage,…
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Entries tagged with: Field Failure Analysis
- by Dr. William Goble, CFSE
- Thursday, September 19, 2019
- Functional Safety
My Final Element Field Failure Data says 150 FITS and OREDA is 2000 FITS
- by Dr. William Goble, CFSE
- Thursday, May 17, 2012
- Functional Safety
The Battle of the Failure Rates
Site Specific vs. Product Specific
During a field failure analysis study, it was discovered that the calculated failure rate of a specific device varied by more than 4X depending on installation site. Particularly, it was one specific site with a high failure rate. While any reliability engineer…