Failure data collection can seem tedious, time consuming and expensive. Just figuring out what data to collect can be challenging. Failure data analysis can be overwhelming with a sense of “I don’t even know where to begin.” So it is not surprising that these useful, vital activities are often neglected especially when…
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Entries tagged with: Julia Bukowski
- by Julia V. Bukowski
- Tuesday, November 05, 2019
- Certification
Guest Blog: Thar’s Gold in Them Thar Failure Data
- by Julia V. Bukowski
- Thursday, September 15, 2022
- Functional Safety
To Be Meaningful & Useful Failure Rates Must Be Validated
Engineers and managers who work with safety equipment have likely seen a failure rate of some kind quoted for the equipment. Some equipment even comes with a safety certification stating the failure rate given certain assumptions about how the equipment will be used.
The numbers sometimes turn out to be…