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Availability & Reliability

12/05/2013 6:48 AM

good day

im new on the Availability & Reliability study.

i am asigned to do Availability & Reliability for specific machine

they give me these data

1- total hours in month (720 hours in month)

2- schaduled Shutdown(preventive mentatice or somtime there are projects or upgrade)( 100 hrs as example)

3- UnSchduled Shutdowns (Breakdowns)( 120 hrs as example)

4- Standby ( avialable but not needed maybe)(50 hr as example )

5- running hours= 450 hrs as example

the aviability1 =(Total hours - unschduled Shutdown ) / total hours

or

aviability2=(Total hours - unschduled Shutdown -Schaduled Shutdown) / total hours

1 -which one is correct aviability1 or avaiablity2 formula and why? should we add the schduled hours on the avaiblity formula? or no

2- what is the formula for the reliabilty of this unit? is it same as avaibilty? or what

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Re: Availability & Reliability

12/05/2013 8:58 AM

Contact several machine suppliers and ask them to educate you as to how the real world does it. Be sure to tell them that one of them will win the order, if they help you.

This gibberish you have here is meaningless, unless you have the machine maker's input.

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Re: Availability & Reliability

12/05/2013 9:23 AM

It depends whose case you are trying to prove; if its the manufacturer who wants to show how reliable his stuff is then its failures per hour of actual availability (uptime). If its the user who wants to get extended warranty for free then its a different set of data ( downtime).

So, whose side are you on ?

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Re: Availability & Reliability

12/05/2013 9:39 AM

Availability and Reliability were often confused, and the cost was great.

Availability means lowest total down time.

Reliability means no downtime.

The American companies that provided equipment for the electric generation industry moved into the space/armament industry. Space needed reliability, so redundant drive and logic trains were incorporated. When the Electric companies asked for more availability, the supply companies went to their reliability departments. This makes for expensive equipment in cost and in real estate and greater difficulty of diagnosis.

The European companies were not in the space race so they went for availability, simplified layouts to allow for quick replacement of faulty equipment etc.

Once they were allowed to bid, the European companies took almost all the work.

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Re: Availability & Reliability

12/05/2013 10:33 AM

The second is correct. Doh.

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