Disassemble

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Opening an item and removing a number of parts or subassemblies to make the item that is to be replaced accessible to removal; does not include the actual removal of the item to be replaced.

Shaft Coupling Selection Issues
Will reparable designs help reduce electronics waste?
Serviceability
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Imagine you are requested to assist a design team in determining how to best improve the reliability of a product. You learn that the organization produces a range of point of sale (POS) devices and they have invited you to a meeting with their staff to discuss the product and ways to improve the field reliability. To help understand the situation, you may have already started to think of a set of questions whose answers would lead to suitable recommendations:
Evaluating Equipment Overhauls – are they Really Worth it?

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About Fred Schenkelberg

I am the reliability expert at FMS Reliability, a reliability engineering and management consulting firm I founded in 2004. I left Hewlett Packard (HP)’s Reliability Team, where I helped create a culture of reliability across the corporation, to assist other organizations.

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