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Working on the NoMTBF book – got some great suggestions on a draft, and now working to make the many improvements. Look for announcements on the release soon. 12/7/2014
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Here is a link to my [James McLeish] slides on the problems with MTBF and what should replace it\npresented at the Applied Reliability Symposium last month. “The Transition from MTTF Reliability Predictions to Physics of Failure Reliability Assessments”\nApplied Reliability Symposium 2012, New Orleans, LA, June 2012 http://www.dfrsolutions.com/uploads/courses/ARS2012.pdf A lot of people agree with me on this, the hall was standing room only and the attendees voted me best presentation of the conference. http://www.arsymposium.org/2012/ars2012_awards.htm#presentations
July 17th, 2012 Linkedin NoMTBF group tops 200 members. http://www.linkedin.com/groups/No-MTBF-1857182/about
July 16th, 2012 NASA Kennedy Space Center concurs that “knowing only the average life parameter is not sufficient information” link to article
July 15th, 2012 – Established the MailChimp email list in support of the No MTBF site.
July 15th, 2014 – 452 Linkedin NoMTBF members, and 166 on the NoMTBF email list. And, we’re regularly making a difference. Keep at it. Thanks for all the support.
Thanks for listing the references. Minor problem. If I copy and past the links above
http://www.dfrsolutions.com/uploads/courses/ARS2012.pdf http://www.arsymposium.org/2012/ars2012_awards.htm#presentations
I can get the papers but clicking on the links above leads me to an error on the NOMTBF website.
I updated the links and it should work now. Thanks for letting me know.
Cheers,
Fred