We all know the simple paperclip. It’s just a piece of wire bent in strategic places, yet it's brilliant at keeping pages together. How often has that little clip saved my skin when a stack of papers clumsily slid off my desk? Not only is it super handy, it’s…
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Entries tagged with: Failure Rate Data
- by Iwan van Beurden, CFSE
- Thursday, June 18, 2026
Clippy’s Guide to Failure Rates: What a Paperclip Teaches Us About B10 vs. FMEDA
- by Valerie Motto
- Monday, August 05, 2024
- Software
Environmental Impact on Failure Rates
Good component failure rate data is a cornerstone of good quality reliability metric analysis. As mentioned in a previous exida whitepaper, one of the shortcomings of reliability databases has been the inability to handle variations in the operating environment. A sensor monitoring a flame and the processor interpreting the signal…
- by Dr. Steve Gandy, CFSP
- Tuesday, August 25, 2015
- Functional Safety
Failure Rate Data: Are You Being Outsold?
When speaking with several manufacturers’ sales teams recently, it became very evident that some of these sales people, selling into the Industrial Safety and Controls markets, had little or no knowledge of how their products’ failure rate data compared to their competitors and/or another industry benchmark (such as DOW…
- by Julia V. Bukowski
- Tuesday, November 05, 2019
- Certification
Guest Blog: Thar’s Gold in Them Thar Failure Data
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…