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 July 12, 2011.

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:
Acronym decoder for many reliability terms	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.
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 (the website is no longer available) The 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 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 see Quality Assurance Library. For the lessons learned libraries, use 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.
Design Analytx International for electronic equipment reliability issues.	Office Of Naval Research Best Manufacturing Practices For Electronic Products
DoD Information Centers for Scientific Data with links to other sites	O’Connor, Patrick D. T., author of Practical Reliability Engineering 4^th Edition ISBN 0-470844639 and other text books.
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Reliability Programs
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	RAMS (The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium) 2012 Conference —Nugget Hotel and Resort in Reno, Nevada, on January 23-26, 2012 with an emphasis on “Securing Tomorrow’s Future With Reliability and Maintainability”. The RAMS tutorials are excellent. You can register for the conference over the Internet. See the RAMS newsletter for more details.
FAA Safety Data and Flight Information	Raptor Monte Carlo modeling software for reliability block diagrams. Software is available for download. Also for more details visit this site.
FAA Risk Analysis Correspondence Course, by Ann Azevedo, Risk Analysis Specialist.	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.
Fitness For Service information and resources	RealityCharting the eLearning root cause analysis software program
Fulton Findings software solutions for reliability problems including WinSMITH Weibull and WinSMITH Visual software. Also Weibull and lognormal workshops and course schedules.	Reliability Direct E-commerce solutions for conditioning monitoring
GIDEP homepage the source for failure data from Government and Industry	Reliability Magazine reliability trade journal with hyperlinks to other reliability resources
Global Engineering Documents search engine for purchase of reliability documents	Reliability Software Technologies for software testing and reliability
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 Web dot Com a reliability site for a variety of practical resources with hyperlinks for members.
ISA standards for safety instrumented systems for process safety	System Effectiveness Associates for HALT testing, and FMECA analysis
Logistics Society for reliability issues	Titan RAM modeling software by Fidelis-Group with tankage.
Maintenance & Reliability Center of the University of Tennessee	U.S. Army training manuals for maintenance and reliability. Also see TM 5-698- 1 thru 6.
Maintenance Journal from Australia available in electronic version.	U.S. Department of Transportation for Pipeline Safety
Maintenance Technology Magazine the magazine for plant equipment reliability, maintenance, and asset management
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) 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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