I got a new car. The process was a bit disturbing. It took over an hour to go through the “set-up” menu. And it was suggested that I return for a second training session after spending time studying the manual and testing different settings. I was thinking how different things…
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Entries tagged with: Field Failure Studies
- by Dr. William Goble, CFSE
- Tuesday, November 12, 2019
- Functional Safety
How Cars Relate to exida’s Site Safety Index (SSI)
- by Dr. William Goble, CFSE
- Thursday, October 13, 2011
- Functional Safety
Two Billion Hours
When I studied Reliability Engineering in graduate school, I was taught that failure rate data came from field failure studies. I assumed that operating companies always kept accurate records when a piece of equipment failed. I also assumed that someone would investigate the failures and assign a root cause.…