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Musings on Reliability and Maintenance Topics

Short essays and thoughts (musings) on reliability and maintenance engineering topics.

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    Fred Schenkelberg
    May 22, 2017

    Time Compression Accelerated Life Testing

    Time Compression ALT — The Easy One

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    Fred Schenkelberg
    Mar 27, 2017

    Uncertainty and Risk Management

    Uncertainty and Risk Management

    We are rather good at being surprised when setting expectations for the future. This is the essence of risk. The difference between what we expect to occur or would like to occur, and what does…

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    Fred Schenkelberg
    Mar 20, 2017

    The Connection of Reliability and Customer Expectations

    Customers Experience Product Reliability in Real Time

    In a customer’s mind, the product works or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t work as expected it has failed. This may or may…

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    Fred Schenkelberg
    Mar 16, 2017

    Use and Environmental Profiles

    Use / Environmental profiles

    Did you know that hot air doesn’t rise when there is no or very little gravity?

    The electronics used to steer an oil exploration drill head 5 miles deep in the earth…

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    Fred Schenkelberg
    Mar 13, 2017

    Performing the Right Correcting Action

    Performing the Right Corrective Action

    When something doesn’t work as expected, it is a failure. A common response to a failure by an organization is to restore the system or remedy the situation.

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    Fred Schenkelberg
    Mar 9, 2017

    The Environmental and Use Manual

    Environmental and Use Manual

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    Fred Schenkelberg
    Mar 6, 2017

    Overview of System Reliability Modeling

    Building and Using a Reliability Model

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    Fred Schenkelberg
    Feb 27, 2017

    The Many Ways We Use Variance

    The term variance is a statistical concept related to the spread or dispersion of a set of data. Second to…

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    Fred Schenkelberg
    Feb 23, 2017

    Asking Questions is Reliability Engineering

    Asking Questions is Reliability Engineering

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    Fred Schenkelberg
    Feb 20, 2017

    Introduction to Risk Terminology

    Introduction to Risk Terminology

    The world of risk management has a unique set of risk terminology.

    Your ability to incorporate reliability concerns into the discussions concerning risk hinges on…

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