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 May 1, 2009.

Hyperlinks To Other Reliability Sites

Abernethy site for Weibull analysis by Dr. Robert B. Abernethy, the worlds leading Weibull analysis expert.

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-see bottom of this page

Acronym decoder for many reliability terms

Actuarial Tables of USA Human Life see Table 1 of Internal Revenue Service Publication 930 or for IRA life expectancy tables (Appendix C) see Publication 590  as PDF files.

Adams Six Sigma 6s+ reliability experience in major process industries

MIMOSA the open alliance for acquisition of machinery data

AIAA recommended practices for software reliability ANSI/AIAA R-013-1992 (76 pages), ISBN: 1-56347-024-1.

MRO Today magazine with search capabilities for good practice articles concerning maintenance and repairs plus hyperlinks to other sources.

AIChE guidance for layers of protections and guidelines for preventing human error in process safety systems and guidelines for chemical process quantitative risk analysis

National Board Of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors with incident reports and 10 years of failure data.  In the last 10 years 720 people have been injured and 127 people killed by pressure vessel failures (83% due to human error and lack of knowledge).

AMSAA Reliability Technology Homepage.  Also includes reliability growth technology for AMSAA TR-652 from 2002 which can be downloaded from the Nov 02 Problem Of The Month.

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 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, Manager of KSC’s Integrated Design & Assurance System

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). 

NASA Technical Reports

CALCE Electronic Products and Systems Center at the University of Maryland—CALCD=Computer-Aided Life Cycle Engineering

NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Dept. of Commerce Technology Administration, accurate time, Statistics handbook and Chapter 8 for Reliability.

Center for Risk and Reliability Engineering supported by the University of Maryland

NTIS U.S. Dept of Commerce source of Gov’t documents on reliability and maintainability

Department of Energy Technical Standards Program (including lessons learned) directed toward nuclear standards particularly in support of The Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO).

Nuclear & space radiation reliability data for semiconductors

Design Analytx International for electronic equipment reliability issues.

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

Process Equipment Reliability Database information on equipment failure data for chemical plants and refineries

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

Office Of Naval Research Best Manufacturing Practices For Electronic Products

FAA Safety Data and Flight Information

O’Connor, Patrick D. T., author of Practical Reliability Engineering 4th Edition ISBN 0-470844639 and other text books.

FAA Risk Analysis Correspondence Course, by Ann Azevedo, Risk Analysis Specialist.

RAMS (The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium) Conference—Transcending Traditional Reliability Approaches – from Theory to Practice at the Doubletree Hotel San Jose, CA, January 25-28, 2010. 

The RAMS tutorials are excellent.  You can register for the conference over the Internet.  See the RAMS newsletter for more details.

Fitness For Service information and resources

Raptor Monte Carlo modeling software for reliability block diagrams.  Software is available for download. Also for more details visit this site.

Fulton Findings software solutions for reliability problems including WinSMITH Weibull and WinSMITH Visual software. Also Weibull and lognormal workshops and course schedules.

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.

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

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

Reliability Software Technologies for software testing and reliability

ISA standards for safety instrumented systems for process safety

Reliability Web dot Com a reliability site for a variety of practical resources with hyperlinks for members and their MRO-Zone Book shop contains books about maintenance and reliability.

Logistics Society for reliability issues

System Effectiveness Associates for HALT testing, and FMECA analysis

Maintenance & Reliability Center of the University of Tennessee

Titan RAM modeling software by Fidelis-Group with tankage.

Maintenance Journal from Australia available in electronic version.

U.S. Army training manuals for maintenance and reliability.  Also see TM 5-698- 1 thru 6.

Maintenance Technology Magazine the magazine for plant equipment reliability, maintenance, and asset management

U.S. Department of Transportation for Pipeline Safety

Meridium enterprise-wide query software for reliability analysis of large volumes of data—bolts on to SAP, and other CIMM software.

Fun site for human life

     Deathclock
     Minimum IRA Distributions-(years)

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 1013 numbers—this is useful for power users of random numbers in Excel.

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