Hidden-failure consequences

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The risk of a multiple failure as a result of an undetected earlier failure of a hidden-function item; one of the four consequence branches of the RCM decision diagram.

Consequences of failure
The results of a given functional failure at the equipment level and for the operating organization, classified in RCM analysis as safety consequences, operational consequences, nonoperational consequences, and hidden-failure consequences.

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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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