Reliability Databases
We are looking for a more efficient way of making reliability projections. When our systems can be made up of hundreds of component parts, getting this data from suppliers, regardless of what is on the PO's, is excrusiatingly painful and time consuming!
Rather than trying to collect, enter, calculate and analyze the data for all the individual component parts when calculating our machine/system reliability projections, I would like to use "family" i.e., part type, data for commodity/catalogue parts.
I have run across databases that contain "thousdands" of parts in them on some web sites, e.g. the DoD's Reliability Analysis Center's (RAC) NPRD-95C Nonelectronic Parts Reliability Data https://rac.iitri.org , but am skeptical of their content and usefulness for my application.
Does anyone have any experience using any of these databases of reliability data or have alternative suggestions for making reliability projections?
We are looking for a more efficient way of making reliability projections. When our systems can be made up of hundreds of component parts, getting this data from suppliers, regardless of what is on the PO's, is excrusiatingly painful and time consuming!
Rather than trying to collect, enter, calculate and analyze the data for all the individual component parts when calculating our machine/system reliability projections, I would like to use "family" i.e., part type, data for commodity/catalogue parts.
I have run across databases that contain "thousdands" of parts in them on some web sites, e.g. the DoD's Reliability Analysis Center's (RAC) NPRD-95C Nonelectronic Parts Reliability Data https://rac.iitri.org , but am skeptical of their content and usefulness for my application.
Does anyone have any experience using any of these databases of reliability data or have alternative suggestions for making reliability projections?