Failure-finding task

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Scheduled inspections of a hidden-function item to find functional failures that have already occurred but were not evident to the operating personnel; one of the four basic tasks in an RCM program.

1653-1774 The First Work Orders in the Royal Navy

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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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