Mandarin Translation of “50 Ways” Reliability Book

January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment

"How Reliable Is Your Product: 50 Ways to Improve Product Reliability" just celebrated its 1 year anniversary of being published. We are pleased to announce the Mandarin translation of the book. You can view the 1st 3 Chapters at 50 Ways to Improve Reliability – in Mandarin, or 提高产品可靠性的50种方法. It will be available in ebook [...]

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Reliability of Repairable Systems vs. Non-Repairable Systems

December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment

When performing various reliability tasks, non-repairable systems or products are treated differently from repairable systems or products. Some of the tools that are used for one type are not applicable to the other. Obviously, at some level, repairable systems are composed of non-repairable parts. Examples of non-repairable systems would be “one-shot” devices like light bulbs [...]

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Mahalanobis distance and reliability methods

October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Traditional Mahalanobis distance is a generalized distance, which can be considered a measure of the degree of similarity (or divergence) in the mean values of multiple characteristics of a population, considering the correlation among the characteristics. It has been used for many year in clustering classification and discriminant analysis. Mahalanobis distance is attributable to Prof.P.C. [...]

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High Reliability Issues – Low Budgets

August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment

In today’s consulting market helping customers that have serious system reliability issues but low budgets to solve the problems can be challenging. Customers that are cash strapped are looking for the maximum bang for the buck and cannot afford to hire high paid consultants and make too many system changes in design. If they do, [...]

Mar

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Outsourcing Revisited – What have we learned?

March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Several years ago, outsourcing was initiated as the tool for improving competitive posture. Since then, experiences gained from many business sectors has provided further insight and new learning on better ways to approach supply chains. Cost has been the primary driver to do offshore outsourcing. Should that change? What about these questions: * What is [...]

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Design Space Effects Reliability

January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Does space effect reliability? In design we are given requirements and often the space we use in the design is well defined. Sometimes it is the size of the mechanical packaging, often a circuit card has given dimension or the device design requires that it fit inside something like the palm of a human hand. [...]

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The Challenge

July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Businesses today are having to ask themselves many questions in order to survive the economic downturn: * How do you compete in this environment? * What does it take to obtain business from an existing or prospective customer? You can say that if you knew the answer to that, you wouldn’t be struggling as hard [...]

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Electromechanical Predictions

March 13, 2009 | 3 Comments

Below is a question from Paul Paroff asking: “how to deal with these electromechanical components that do not have published MTBF values but do have rated life values in an MTBF prediction?”