Field failure

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A failure that occurs after transfer of ownership or operation from the manufacturer to a customer.

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Parts count prediction
The analysis of parts and components to predict the rate at which an item fails. In parts count prediction, the expected or known failure rates for all components within an item are tallied to estimate the item’s overall failure rate. (However, this method is proven to be very inaccurate at estimating the actual field failure rate.)

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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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