Tag: Weibull
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The reliability data Catch 22
Ever wonder why poor historical work order data in the CMMS has been tolerated all these decades? One reason is that the fix is a human one. And human behavior is difficult to change. We tend to avoid difficult human problems, ultimately seeking a technological solution to everything. But there’s also a kind of paradox…
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Real meaning of the six RCM curves
You may be wondering about the famous “RCM curves” shown below in Figure 1. They are the Age-Reliability behavior curves which graph the Conditional Probability of failure against age. A common question is the following. “For the 139 items covered in the Nowlan & Heap (UAL) study, for example, do these curves represent the real…
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EXAKT vs Weibull
The difference is that Weibull is a reliability analysis procedure in two dimensions, namely Reliability versus Age. Its main purpose is to discover the relationship (equation) relating reliability and age. EXAKT is a reliability analysis software that relates several dimensions, namely Reliability versus Age versus each monitoring variable (condition indicator) discovered in the analysis procedure…