This is an assortment of links to other reliability sites provided by Barringer & Associates, Inc. If you have other recommended sites for inclusion, send e-mail suggestions (and corrections to address changes)    by clicking here. Last updated February 16, 2013.

Hyperlinks To Other Reliability Sites
Abernethy site for Weibull analysis by Dr. Robert B. Abernethy, the worlds leading Weibull analysis expert.	MIMOSA the open alliance for acquisition of machinery data
Acronym decoder for many reliability terms	MRO Today magazine with search capabilities for good practice articles concerning maintenance and repairs plus hyperlinks to other sources.
AIAA recommended practices for software reliability ANSI/AIAA R-013-1992 (76 pages), ISBN: 1-56347-024-1.	National Board Of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors with incident reports and 10 years of failure data. In 10 years 720 people were injured + 127 people killed by pressure vessel failures (83% due to human error/lack of knowledge).
AIChE guidance for layers of protections and guidelines for preventing human error in process safety systems and guidelines for chemical process quantitative risk analysis	New Standard Institute for maintenance training needs and e-learning
Apollo root cause analysis	North American Electric Reliability Council Regional Committees
API standards, publications, and recommended practices for safe/reliable operation in petroleum areas	NASA Preferred Reliability and Maintainability Practices with Lessons Learned
ASQ’s certified reliability program and the Reliability Division publisher of Reliability Review	NASA Systems Engineering “Toolbox” for Design-Oriented Engineers NASA Reference Publication 1358 contains numerous reliability tools (306 pages). Other tools are available from NASA’s Risk Management web page including Fault Trees, etc.
Assist-Online a no cost source of reliability documents from the InternetYou can download MIL documents directly from Quick Search.	NASA Systems Engineering Fundamentals describing reliability, life cycle costs, and other big picture requirements (222 pages), also consider NASA’s Systems Engineering Handbook SP-610S June 1995 (164 pages)
Availability-Modeling tools, papers, and links from Dr. Kishor Trivedi, Duke University.	NASA R&M program. NASA Risk Management site.
Bi-Cycle is a maintenance improvement work process group with a number of good papers and reference books listed on their website	NASA RAM Steering Committee on preferred reliability practices for design and test
Bell Canada Software Reliability Laboratory	NASA Safety and Risk Assessment Division for other reliability information
BQR Reliability Engineering Ltd. Reliability software for modeling	NASA Kennedy Space Center’s R&M web page, an eclectic collection of links provided by Tim C. Adams, Reliability Engineer in KSC’s Engineering Directorate.
Bloch, P.E., Heinz P. Reliability articles for Hydrocarbon Processing Magazine and consider the new CD with all previous reliability articles.(search for Author / Bloch to find the hyperlink to the CD).	NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Dept. of Commerce Technology Administration, accurate time, Statistics handbook and Chapter 8 for Reliability.
CALCE Electronic Products and Systems Center at the University of Maryland—CALCD=Computer-Aided Life Cycle Engineering	NTIS U.S. Dept of Commerce source of Gov’t documents on reliability and maintainability
Center for Risk and Reliability Engineering supported by the University of Maryland	Nuclear & space radiation data reliability data for semiconductors
Department of Energy Technical Standards Program directed toward nuclear standards particularly in support of The Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO)—also read Hostages of Each Other to see INPOs impact. Also see Quality Assurance Library for lessons learned libraries, using the search feature for “lessons learned” to access many different subjects.	Plant Maintenance Resource Center, Sandy Dunn’s extensive website from Australia with details and references for maintenance professionals.
DoD Information Centers for Scientific Data with links to other sites	Office Of Naval Research Best Manufacturing Practices For Electronic Products
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Reliability Programs	OPS A La Carte technical documents and webinars for download as PDF files--particularly on HALT, HASS, and ALT.
Ethic Issues plus other links to engineering societies for registered professional engineers in Texas. Ethics policy (P-15.7) for ASME International along with a criteria for interpretation for the ASME Canons. Other details are available at the ASME Ethics Center with hyperlinks to other ethics sites. Case Western Reserve University has an Online Ethics Center with many case studies	O’Connor, Patrick D. T., author of Practical Reliability Engineering 5^th Edition ISBN 978-0-470-97981-5 and other text books.
FAA Safety Data and Flight Information	RAMS (The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium) 2014 Conference —The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO, January 27-30, 2014 with an emphasis on “Engineering Customer Trust”. The RAMS tutorials are excellent. The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 15, 2013.
FAA Risk Analysis Correspondence Course, by Ann Azevedo, Risk Analysis Specialist.	Raptor Monte Carlo modeling software for reliability block diagrams. Software is available for download. Also for more details visit this site.
Fitness For Service information and resources	System Reliability Center, formerly known as the Reliability Analysis Center (RAC), for government and business information with copies of the SRC Journal available for download.
Fulton Findings software solutions for reliability problems including SuperSMITH Weibull and SuperSMITH Visual software. Also Weibull and lognormal workshops and course schedules.	RealityCharting the eLearning root cause analysis software program
GIDEP homepage the source for failure data from Government and Industry	Reliability Direct E-commerce solutions for conditioning monitoring
Global Engineering Documents search engine for purchase of reliability documents	Reliability Magazine reliability trade journal with hyperlinks to other reliability resources
ISA standards for safety instrumented systems for process safety	Reliability Software Technologies for software testing and reliability
Logistics Society for reliability issues	Reliability Web dot Com a reliability site for a variety of practical resources with hyperlinks for members.
Maintenance & Reliability Center of the University of Tennessee	Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals with links to other organizations for R&M plus details of their certification for CMRP of Maintenance and Reliability practioneers
Maintenance Journal from Australia available in electronic version.	System Effectiveness Associates for HALT testing, and FMECA analysis
Maintenance Technology Magazine the magazine for plant equipment reliability, maintenance, and asset management	Titan RAM modeling software by Fidelis-Group with tankage.
Meridium enterprise-wide query software for reliability analysis of large volumes of data—bolts on to SAP, and other CIMM software.	U.S. Army training manuals for maintenance and reliability. Also see TM 5-698- 1 thru 6.
Microsoft operating system no-cost upgrade site for improving your PC operating system reliability and for improving reliability of Office products. Special note for random numbers in Excel 2003:	U.S. Department of Transportation for Pipeline Safety
Actuarial Tables of USA Human Life see Table 1-5 for Individual Retirement Arrangements life expectancy tables see Publication 590 (Appendix A) as PDF files.	Fun site for human life Deathclock Minimum IRA Distributions-(years) How long will I live? (40 questions) Living to 100 (40 questions) The Longevity Game (How long you have lived is one of the best predictors of how long you may live.) Life expectancy calculator

Special note: You need to do an Excel 2003 update to avoid getting negative random numbers—see Knowledge Base 834520 for problem/resolution. Also see 828795 for background on how the random number is calculated so the pseudo value sequence only repeats every 10^13 numbers—this is useful for power users of random numbers in Excel.

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