Equipment failures can injure people and cost money. The downtime, loss of production, and repair and replacement costs contribute to lost opportunities and lost profit. Unfortunately, everything will fail at some point. However, from electronics carried in a drill string to valves in a production facility, unexpected or premature failures can be avoided. Understanding what will fail and when failures will occur provides a means to manage equipment and minimize the costs of failure. This is the concept of reliability engineering.
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