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So What? My Failure Rates Are Low?

Recording Date: April 2019

The Impact of Using Low Failure Rates

This webinar will discuss the importance of data integrity, especially when it comes to functional safety and failure rates.

We will cover:

  • What a failure rate is
  • What failure rates are used for and the different techniques used to attain failure rates
  • Examples of realistic vs too good to be true data
  • Effects of using bad data
  • What if you don’t have failure rates and how can you get them, with an example.
  • Generic vs Specific failure rates

This webinar will conclude with time for queries in the end to answer any failure rate questions you may have!

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About the Presenter:

Loren Stewart, CFSE

Loren Stewart Loren Stewart graduated from Virginia Tech with a BSME. She has over 10 years of professional experience. She currently works for exida consulting as a safety engineer, focusing on the mechanical aspects of their customers. Along with assessing the safety of products and creating FMEDAs and reports, she researches stiction and is creating a database for the 2H initiative according to IEC 61508.