Reliability Blogs

One of the venues for learning about reliability is the blogosphere. In some cases purely educational, others are more appropriate for the opinion page. Some comment on interesting facets of reliability and maintenance engineering, while others focus on examples of services provided.

Overall there are not many blogs focused exclusively on reliability. A simple online search finds a range of articles in blogs that may have the key word ‘reliability’ yet the overall blog could be most anything. Since I do enjoy keeping up with what others are writing I’ve been following a few blogs regularly for the past year or so. Thus instead of my usual rant about MTBF – I’ll list the few blogs that I’ve found worth the time to read. I recommend checking these out, subscribe to the ones that look interesting and participate by commenting with observations or questions. Please do let me know of any other reliability related blogs that are out there.

CRE Preparation

http://creprep.wordpress.com A site by a group of authors that write about elements of the ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer body of knowledge, think mini tutorials. The intended audience is those preparing for the exam.

The Maintenance Phoenix

http://www.maintenancephoenix.com “Your Resource for Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices” by Ricky Smith, GPAllied

Reliability Blog

http://www.opsalacarte.com/reliability-blog/ Written by the consultants of Ops A La Carte since 2009. A wide range of topics and great information.

ARS Blog

http://www.acceleratedreliabilitysolutions.com/arsblog.html Kirk Gray occasionally writes informative essays about how we approach reliability issues. I learn from each one and look forward to the next one.

Test to be your Best

http://chamber-queen.blogspot.com Daily stories and antedates by Chris Peterson related to reliability, testing, and sometimes our approach to problem solving. Very informative, makes you stop and think, and great stories.

Reliability Now blog

http://www.reliabilitynow.net Shon Isenhour write regularly on maintenance reliability topics. Always informative and easy to read.

Terry Wireman’s blog

http://terrywireman.typepad.com/terrys-blog/reliability/ Terry comments on news, education, and forces effecting the world of maintenance reliability within the oil industry (mostly) although his comments do apply widely.

RCM Blitz

http://www.rcmblitzblog.com Doug Plucknette writes on a wide range of topics related to reliability centered maintenance. The blog has been going for 15 years.

Allied Knowledge Center blog

http://alliedreliabilityblog.com Focused on maintenance reliability. The last few posts provided very clear discussions about data gather techniques – very practical, well written and thorough.

Software Testing Blog

http://blog.utest.com Software development and testing focus yet very well written and informative .

ARMS Reliability The Reliability Blog

http://www.thereliabilityblog.com Good discussions, yet tend to focus on services ARMS Reliability offers.

Balch & Bingham, LLP Electric Reliability Law Blog

http://www.balch.com/erl/ An example of a narrow focus blog. If you are in the power generation or distribution industry, this is a must read.

Bjarni Ellert Isleifsson, CMRP blog

http://bjarniis.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/why-do-we-do-the-things-we-do/ Bjarni writes well thought out and interesting posts on occasion. Wish he would write more, I like his approach. Topics are all matters related to Reliability & Maintenance.

Reliability (paper.li format)

http://paper.li/reliability/1309725140 A daily summary of curated maintenance reliability information by Terrence O’Hanlon, CEO and Publisher of Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine.

Reliasoft’s Hotwire

http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/archive.htm While not exactly a blog, rather a monthly eNewsletter, it typically has two very informative articles on reliability statistics (most often). It’s been publishing since 2001 and covers a lot of topics.