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by Fred Schenkelberg 11 Comments

Websites for Reliability

note: if you know of a great online resource that isn’t on this list, please add a comments and we’ll add it to the list for all to share.

Shon Isenhour recently posted on Linkedin a question about online resources helpful for reliability engineers. I added my list and hadn’t seen any other links added. There must be more than the few I know about – what can you add to this list?

My original response to Shon’s question:

Great question and one I will be interested in the results.

I often head to http://www.weibull.com  for reliability statistics topics (I am a statistician, and Reading the practical examples they work out)

I also regularly head to the NIST Statistics Handbook http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/

For those trying to break the habit of MTBF and related Reading metrics, I recommend http://nomtbf.com (which I am one of the authors blogging there and we’d like to hear your story too).

For laying out a training plan or looking for just the right conference, I head to http://reliabilitycalendar.org/

and, for professional development on reliability engineering topics, I visit http://reliabilitycalendar.org/webinars/

The rel cal site also has a listing of university programs related to reliability and maintenance engineering.

I’ve found a lot of useful information at http://www.barringer1.com also – especially estimates or ranges for Weibull beta values.

When looking at warranty expense and comparisons between companies, I look at http://www.warrantyweek.com – they have a weekly free newsletter is worth being on.

And, finally for those preparing for the ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer exam, the site http://creprep.wordpress.com provides notes and information that may be helpful for those preparing.

Of course, I seem to be tapping into the wealth of experience and knowledge here on Linkedin within a range of different groups.

—

So what can you add?

Reading over the list, I would add Wikipedia – which I seemed to have been forgotten on the original list.

—

Thanks for the many comments and responses across Linkedin and here. Here is a summary of a few more links highly recommended for the reliability professional.


See this very good article at the Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC) where numerous websites are listed. – Michael Smith

http://www.theriac.org/DeskReference/viewDocument.php?id=370

Fred, The Reliability Information Analysis Center still needs to be added to the list. http://www.theriac.org/ – Michael Smith


Hi Fred – I would like to recommend the DfR Solutions E-Learning Education page:
http://www.dfrsolutions.com/e-learning/
It has a rich resource of Articles, Papers and even Recorded Webcasts of
Physics of Failure / Reliability Physics and Design for Reliability Information.
There is also the latest Reliability news and events posted on the website’s homepage
http://www.dfrsolutions.com/  – James McLeish


www.dfrsolutions.com (more for electronics reliability) – Craig Hillman


The web page called “KSC Reliability” targets the practicing Reliability Engineer and those that work with and interface with the Reliability role and discipline.

https://extapps.ksc.nasa.gov/Reliability/   – Timothy Adams


Reliability has many keywords that will bring rich education on each component of understanding rel statistical methods, industry-specific failure modes and failure analysis, and reliability improvement methods including Design of Reliability, as well as the usual DMAIC projects that use field failure data, or multi-level failure analysis from optical to focused-ion-beam to transmission electron microscopy.

The links on the CREPREP site are great for defining the analysis methods. But websites that involve reliability by industry are best found using specific keywords.

For example Reliability Physics Wiki gives many Wikipedia sites uniquely focused on industrial failure mechanisms, such as the many semiconductor fail modes. A search on Stress-corrosion cracking keyword gives hundreds of links, one of which: http://www.npl.co.uk/upload/pdf/stress.pdf is just a hint at the depth of this rel field.
I used to fly in Electra Turbo-Prop’s to Europe…which suffered from serious stress corrosion cracking.

And early rel issue in IC’s was “electromigration cracking” of aluminum interconnections, and hundreds of papers and patents were generated by IBM for example, since this impacted mainframe computer reliability.

Automotive reliability links fill books:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291099-1638%28199803/04%2914:2%3C103::AID-QRE147%3E3.0.CO;2-5/abstract

http://www.cedengineering.com/upload/Failure%20Modes%20and%20Failure%20Mechanisms.pdf

—

There were two links smooshed together:

http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary%2Ewiley%2Ecom%2Fdoi%2F10%2E1002%2F%2528SICI%25291099-1638%2528199803%2F04%252914%3A2%253C103%3A%3AAID-QRE147%253E3%2E0%2ECO%3B2-5%2Fabstract

and

http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecedengineering%2Ecom%2Fupload%2FFailure%2520Modes%2520and%2520Failure%2520Mechanisms%2Epdf&urlhash=hINg&_t=tracking_disc

Posted by David Hartman


This gives some idea of the failure modes with their underlying failure mechanisms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-carrier_injection

Satellite reliability involves not only micro-meteorites drilling holes, but also many types of radiation, including of course well-aimed solar flares.

The list is endless….by industry..but FMEA (design FMEA and process FMEA) is one everyone should have on their must-read list.  – Mike Clayton


The automative link referenced does not work…http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291099-1638%28199803/04%2914:2%3C103::AID-QRE147%3E3.0.CO;2-5/abstracthttp://www.cedengineering.com/upload/Failure%20Modes%20and%20Failure%20Mechanisms.pdf

Other good links to add are from IEEE Reliability Society (http://rs.ieee.org/); Reliasoft (http://www.reliasoft.com/); DfR Solutions website (http://www.dfrsolutions.com/); Systems Reliability Center (http://src.alionscience.com/); and the RAMS conference website (http://rams.org/). Lou Gullo


Mauro Carlos Andreassa 4:49pm Oct 26

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/

 

weibull.com

reliasoft.com

Posted by David Robson


There is a library full of great information for both members and non-members on the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals website (www.smrp.org) as well as information on local chapters. Cindy Moblo


Has anyone tried http://www.reliabilityweb.com/

It is a great resource also.
Posted by Dingiswayo Sakala


Take a look MRG Inc.’s site at www.mrgsolutions.com.
Our website contains a wide selection of White Papers and Articles, under Insights & Experience link….. there are many great papers covering maintenance, reliability and asset management topics.
Posted by Michael Whittaker


Good website is http://www.maintenancephoenix.com.php5-21.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/
Posted by Thomas Williams


Check out http://www.reliability.com.au/
Posted by Cliff Williams


http://www.maintenanceresources.com/
Huge database of help!
Posted by Andrew Archuleta CMRP


Good website is http://www.maintenancephoenix.com.php5-21.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/
Posted by Thomas Williams


Shon Isenhour commented on Websites for Reliability

There are a few more resources listed over on at http://www.reliabilitynow.net/2012/08/five-ways-to-improve-plant-reliability.html?m=1


There is of course SaRS’ own Body of Knowledge – the public section is athttp://www.sars.org.uk/body-of-knowledge/ with the ‘mindmap’ being particularly useful.
Logging onto the members area gives access to more stuff.
By Pete Stanton

One reference book I normally refer is “Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers- Ricky Smith (Author)
As I always say, a reliability engineer should have a Maintenance base to be effective. Bothe are covered in this book
By Samuel Thomas

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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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Comments

  1. Fred Schenkelberg says

    October 22, 2012 at 2:58 PM

    From Michael Smith:
    Fred, here is another resource. http://www.theriac.org/

    The RIAC Journal is a free resource: http://www.theriac.org/DeskReference/PDFs/2012Q2/2012_RIAC_Journal_WEB.pdf
    Posted by Michael Smith; ASQ-CRE, CMRP, PMP

    Reply
  2. Fred Schenkelberg says

    October 23, 2012 at 3:38 PM

    From Mike Clayton (linkedin Reliability on a Global Scale group)

    Reliability has many keywords that will bring rich education on each component of understanding rel statistical methods, industry-specific failure modes and failure analysis, and reliability improvement methods including Design of Relibility,as well as the usual DMAIC projects that use field failure data, or multi-level failure analysis from optical to focused-ion-beam to transmission electron microscopy.

    The links on the CREPREP site are great for defining the analysis methods. But web site that involve reliability by industry are best found using specific keywords.

    For example: Reliability Physics Wiki gives many wikipedia sites uniquely focused on industrial failure mechanisms, such as the many semiconductor fail modes. A search on Stress-corrosion cracking key word gives hundreds of links, one of which: http://www.npl.co.uk/upload/pdf/stress.pdf is just a hint at the depth of this rel field.
    I used to fly in Electra Turbo-Prop’s to Europe…which suffered from serious stress corrosion cracking.

    And early rel issue in IC’s was “electromigation cracking” of aluminum interconnections, and hundreds of papers and patents were generated by IBM for example, since this impacted mainframe computer reliability.

    Automotive reliability links fill books:
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291099-1638%28199803/04%2914:2%3C103::AID-QRE147%3E3.0.CO;2-5/abstracthttp://www.cedengineering.com/upload/Failure%20Modes%20and%20Failure%20Mechanisms.pdf
    This gives some idea of the failure modes with their underlying failure mechanisms.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-carrier_injection

    Satellite reliability involves not only micro-meteorites drilling holes, but also many types of radiation, including of course well-aimed solar flares.

    The list is endless….by industry..but FMEA (design FMEA and process FMEA) is one everyone should but on must-read list.

    Reply
  3. Fred Schenkelberg says

    October 24, 2012 at 3:30 PM

    And a few more notes from across Linkedin groups

    Matthew Grech • Hi Fred,

    http://www.reliability.com.au and from this http://www.thereliabilityblog.com/ contains discussions and studies pertaining to reliability, RCM and is the home of ARMS reliability.

    Timothy Adams • The web page called “KSC Reliability” targets the practicing Reliability Engineer and those that work with and inferface with the Reliability role and discipline.

    http://kscsma.ksc.nasa.gov/Reliability/Default.html
    18 hours ago• Like• Reply privately• Delete 1

    Michael Smith; ASQ-CRE, CMRP, PMP • Fred, here is another resource. http://www.theriac.org/

    The RIAC Journal is a free resource: http://www.theriac.org/DeskReference/PDFs/2012Q2/2012_RIAC_Journal_WEB.pdf

    Michael Smith; ASQ-CRE, CMRP, PMP • See this very good article at the Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC) where numerous websites are listed.

    http://www.theriac.org/DeskReference/viewDocument.php?id=370

    Reply
  4. Shon Isenhour says

    December 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM

    There are a few more resources listed over on at http://www.reliabilitynow.net/2012/08/five-ways-to-improve-plant-reliability.html?m=1

    Reply
  5. machineryhealth says

    December 20, 2012 at 7:42 AM

    Fred,
    This is great. You should set up a webpage with all these and way for people to add their own (moderated of course). I’d like to put a link to it on my webpage.
    Thanks,
    Jim

    Reply
    • Fred Schenkelberg says

      December 20, 2012 at 8:58 AM

      Hi Jim,

      You can link directly to this post and the comments at

      http://creprep.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/websites-for-reliability/

      I’ll look at a page that is a bit more organized and add it to the to do list (a bit long at the moment.)

      Anyone can add comments which are moderated and I’ll edit to encourage more additions.

      cheers,

      Fred

      Reply
  6. prizmman8 says

    January 23, 2013 at 7:04 AM

    I find that People & Processes http://www.peopleandprocesses.com to be a great resource. Jeff Shiver’s blog http://www.jeffshiver.com always has helpful information.

    Reply
  7. Mark O'Brien says

    February 25, 2013 at 9:31 AM

    http://www.engineersedge.com http://www.reliabilityweb.com http://www.noria.com

    The website of any OEM, testing laboratories and DOD/NASA websites you can find beginning with DARPA

    Reply
    • Fred Schenkelberg says

      February 25, 2013 at 9:47 AM

      Hi Mark,

      Thanks I’ll check them out and add to the list of regular reading.

      I’m not sure what you mean by the last sentence – could you be more specific on recommending blogs that may be of interest to reliability professionals?

      cheers,

      Fred

      Reply
  8. Jenn Ciurla says

    September 22, 2015 at 10:58 AM

    Hi Fred,

    Here is another great resource with a free Industrial Wiki and more! https://www.myodesie.com/wiki

    Reply
  9. MD. WASIM AKHTAR says

    June 4, 2019 at 1:45 AM

    Hi sir you can also add http://www.reliawiki.com in your list…This is also a good site for Reliability related issues….

    Reply

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