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Issue 28, June 2003 |
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The Effect of
Inspection Intervals
Consider a little known
airline, Odyssey Air, that uses inflatable life vests manufactured by
ACME Life Vest Company aboard its commercial aircraft. Odyssey Air wants
to study and understand the effect of different inspection intervals for
these life vests. The vests are stored until they are required for use.
Therefore, failures remain dormant until the system is needed or until
failed vests are discovered during scheduled inspections. Scheduled
inspections involve testing all vests on the aircraft. Vests found
failed are discarded and replaced with new vests (thus resulting in a
mix of vests of different ages aboard the aircraft). Odyssey Air is
contemplating different inspection intervals for these life vests. They
wish to study the effect of inspections performed annually, every two
years and every three years.
To read more, see
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue28/hottopics28.htm
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Reliability Basics |
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Throughput Analysis (Part II)
In last month's issue of the HotWire, the
Throughput Analysis (Part I) article presented some basic throughput
analysis concepts. Part II of this article will continue with the
throughput analysis discussion by presenting a more complex scenario
that incorporates the reliability and maintenance properties of the
blocks and system. These are important factors that need to be
incorporated when conducting a complete throughput analysis.
To read more, see
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue28/relbasics28.htm
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Tool Tips |
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To read more, see
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue28/tooltips28.htm
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Latest Software Updates |
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New service releases are
now available for ALTA 6 (SR
6.0.12),
Xfmea (SR 1.0.2) and
MPC 3 (SR 3.0.9). To determine the compile revision of the
application on your computer, select About from the Help
menu.
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Hot News |
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Expanded
On-line eTextbook & New Case Studies for BlockSim -
Engineers can now gain free, practical knowledge about system
reliability, maintainability, availability, optimization, throughput
and related analyses by referencing our expanded online
System Analysis Reference: Reliability, Availability and
Optimization. Detailed
BlockSim Case Studies have also been added for those who enjoy
education as it relates to practical applications.
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Xfmea Enhancements - At ReliaSoft, we continually strive
to listen and meet our customer's needs. Therefore, we have already
added additional functionality to our newly released
Xfmea software package. Here are a few of the latest features
contained within this free minor version update:
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The ability to import data from *.F2F files (generated with
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A Query Utility that allows you to perform queries for
items, functions, failures, effects, causes, controls and
actions based on any of the record properties. Query results
can be sent to Excel for further analysis and presentation. |
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The ability to select individual items without selecting all
sub-items when using the Plot Viewer, Check Analysis Utility
and Report Generation Utility. |
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Singapore MSMT Rescheduled - Due to the SARS situation,
the Singapore "Master the Subject, Master the Tools" seminar,
originally scheduled for July 7 - 11, 2003, has been
rescheduled for December 8 - 12, 2003. For more information,
please visit: http://www.ReliaSoft.com/seminars/singapore_dec03.htm
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Summer Seminar in San Diego - We are already beginning to
receive registration forms for our "Master the Subject, Master the
Tools" seminar in San Diego this August 18 - 22, 2003. Early
registration is encouraged due to the class size limitation and the
popularity of this particular event. For more details to help you
get a head start, please visit: http://www.ReliaSoft.com/seminars/august03.htm.
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IEEE/CPMT Technical Committee on Accelerated Stress Testing and
Reliability (TC-ASTR) - The purpose of this AST Workshop
is to share ideas on better ways of accelerating and detecting
hidden defects, flaws and weaknesses in electronic and
electromechanical hardware that result in failures during use. For
more information, please visit:
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/cpmt/tc7/ast2003/index.html.
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Training Around the World - Check for ReliaSoft Training
within your region of the world by using our International Seminar
Locator.
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