Identifying Parts Obsolescence Early

Parts Obsolescence Management an Ongoing Problem

One aspect of creating a new product or system is the sourcing of parts, components, and materials.

Gone are the days of your organization providing every element of the final product. Henry Ford’s supply chain for early Ford automobiles include their own forests, rubber plantations, and iron ore mines. [Gelderman, 1981]

We increasing rely on the supply chain to create the necessary parts for the design’s functionality. Then to continue to supply those same parts for decades, in some cases.

The Wald Wolfowitz Run Test for Two Small Samples

This nonparametric test evaluates if two continuous cumulative distributions are significantly different or not. For example, if the assumption is two production lines producing the same product create the same resulting dimensions, comparing a set of samples from each line may reveal if that hypothesis is true or not.

2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 26,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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CRE Prep course

Just opened registration for a CRE preparation course. http://fmsrel.com/1hW57Yt

Starting in August and running through September. All online.

2013 in review

Thanks to you all for a great year. The idea of the blog is to assist those preparing for the CRE exam or wanting to learn about reliability engineering. It seems to have found the audience.

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 21,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Two question challenge

When this posts I should be home from Nepal and mostly recovered. (jet lag is no place to write posts). So, back to more details going forward. Take a look, work the problem, solve it, then show your work. Comment with why you choose your response and why you didn’t select one of the others.

Prep, relax, exam

Best Wishes for all those taking the CRE Exam Oct 4th.