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SOR 611 Vendor MTBF Claim

SOR 611 Vendor MTBF Claim

Vendor MTBF Claim

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Philip and Fred discussing a listener question about how to verify vendor claims about reliability.
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Filed Under: Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance Tagged with: MTBF

by Kirk Gray Leave a Comment

SOR 591 MTBF, Reliability, and the Curve

SOR 591 MTBF, Reliability, and the Curve

MTBF, Reliability, and the Curve

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Kirk and Fred discussing how testing a small sample size of a new product results on a larger margin of error for the larger population.
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by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment

SOR 504 Eradication of MTBF

SOR 504 Eradication of MTBF

SOR 504 Eradication of MTBF

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Fred discussing just how bad MTBF and related measures are for our profession.
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by Christopher Jackson 2 Comments

SOR 422 What Do I Do When the MTBF is Imposed on Me?

SOR 422 What Do I Do When the MTBF is Imposed on Me?

What Do I Do When MTBF is Imposed?

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Chris and Fred discuss what happens when you can’t avoid having the MTBF imposed upon you – even if it is your own organization and not the customer. Perhaps you are told that ‘our competitors quote the MTBF … so we have to as well!’ But you can (sneakily) tailor test data to get whatever MTBF you want. You can make life easy on yourself by not challenging this paradigm (noting that you will most likely get an unhappy customer). But it is almost impossible to apportion MTBF goals to individual designers that even allow the motivated ones to create a reliable system. So what do you do? Listen to this podcast to help you on your reliability journey.
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by Carl Carlson Leave a Comment

SOR 405 What’s Wrong with MTBF

SOR 405 What’s Wrong with MTBF

What’s Wrong with MTBF

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Carl and Fred discussing the pitfalls of using Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) as a metric for identifying reliability requirements.
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by Christopher Jackson 3 Comments

SOR 352 Management and MTBF

SOR 352 Management and MTBF

Management and MTBF

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Chris and Fred discuss how management teams across many institutions continue to misuse the MTBF while believing they are fluent in the field of reliability (when they clearly aren’t)!
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Filed Under: Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance Tagged with: mean time between failure, MTBF, reliability

by Adam Bahret 1 Comment

SOR 316 Can MTBF be Used for Software Reliability

SOR 316 Can MTBF be Used for Software Reliability

Can MTBF be Used for Software Reliability

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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing metrics for reliability software.
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by Andre Kleyner Leave a Comment

SOR 259 A Bit of MTBF Confusion

SOR 259 A Bit of MTBF Confusion

A Bit of MTBF Confusion

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Andre and Fred discussing why we do not like using MTBF.
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by Fred Schenkelberg 1 Comment

What To Do When A Customer Requests MTBF

What To Do When A Customer Requests MTBF

What To Do When A Customer Requests MTBF

You have carefully crafted a detailed reliability goal including function, environment, probability, and duration, plus apportioned it to critical supplied subsystems and components. Your vendor decides to use MTBF instead.
What can you do? What should you do?

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by James Kovacevic 5 Comments

04 – What is MTBF and Why You Shouldn’t Use It

04 – What is MTBF and Why You Shouldn’t Use It

What is MTBF and Why You Shouldn’t Use It

Mean Time Between Failure or MTBF is almost universally recognized in maintenance, reliability, and asset management.

Why is that?  And does it actually help an organization improve the reliability of their assets?

The answer is a resounding No.
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by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment

Exploring Alternatives to MTBF

Exploring Alternatives to MTBF

Exploring Alternatives to MTBF

You may already know my position on MTBF.

If not, in short, do not use MTBF at all, ever, in any form. So what should we use instead?

I suggest using reliability, the probability of success over a specific duration.

Let’s discuss what will work for you.

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