RSS feed for ReliaSoft Corporation's press releases. http://www.weibull.com/knowledge/pubs_index.htm Copyright (c) 2010 ReliaSoft Corporation en-us Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:00:00 -0700 Wed, 11 Aug 12:00:00 -0700 webmaster@ReliaSoft.com weekly 2010-08-11T17:00:00 -07:00 Reliability HotWire Issue 114 (August 2010) includes articles about using RENO to enhance traditional engineering analysis and interpreting the integral used in the Weibull++ comparison wizard, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue114/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue114/index.htm Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 113 (July 2010) includes articles about optimum maintenance intervals in RCM++ and determining significant effects in experiment designs with single replicates, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue113/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue113/index.htm Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability Edge Volume 10, Issue 2 includes articles on using DOE results in the design of an accelerated life test, understanding the change of slope methodology in reliability growth analysis and presents the results of a recent survey of reliability programs. http://www.reliabilitynews.com/v10i2/index.htm http://www.reliabilitynews.com/v10i2/index.htm Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 112 (June 2010) includes articles about equivalent single systems in reliability growth testing and degradation model selection in Weibull++, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue112/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue112/index.htm Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 111 (May 2010) includes articles about enterprise level management of FMEAs and risk discovery analysis in Xfmea 5, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue111/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue111/index.htm Wed, 12 May 2010 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 110 (April 2010) includes articles about looking at the shape parameter of the Weibull distribution (Beta) and using accelerated degradation analysis in ALTA, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue110/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue110/index.htm Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 109 (March 2010) includes articles about using the Fleet data type in RGA and unbiasing parameters in Weibull++, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue109/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue109/index.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 108 (February 2010) includes articles about using Weibull++'s Chart Wizard to create a custom plot and obtaining and plotting the failure rate of a series system in Weibull++, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue108/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue108/index.htm Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 107 (January 2010) includes articles about importing data from Excel files to DOE++ and information about statistical tests for effectiveness of corrective actions in RGA 7, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue107/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue107/index.htm Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 106 (December 2009) includes articles about the Design of Reliability Test in RGA 7 and a comparison of Fisher Matrix and Likelihood Ratio Confidence bound methods, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue106/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue106/index.htm Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 105 (November 2009) includes articles about operational mission profile testing in RGA 7 and residual plots in accelerated life testing data analysis, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue105/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue105/index.htm Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 104 (October 2009) includes articles about the new features in RGA 7 for reliability growth analysis and fielded repairable system analysis and about calculating median rank based on mean order number, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue104/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue104/index.htm Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 103 (September 2009) includes an article about steps in a system reliability, availability and maintainability simulation analysis, and an article about system burn-in for a multi-component system or a component with multiple failure modes, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue103/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue103/index.htm Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 102 (August 2009) includes articles about using spreadsheets in RENO and calculating bounds on system reliability in Weibull++, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue102/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue102/index.htm Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 101 (July 2009) includes articles about using variability analysis in DOE++ and individual and joint parameter bounds in Weibull++, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue101/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue101/index.htm Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 100 (June 2009) includes articles about using DOE++ for product and process optimization and gives a pro-rata warranty model for non-repairable products, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue100/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue100/index.htm Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 99 (May 2009) includes articles about using covariates in DOE++ and performing reliability allocation in BlockSim 7, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue99/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue99/index.htm Tue, 12 May 2009 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 98 (April 2009) includes articles about using Weibull++'s DRT tool for demonstration test design and performing reliability allocation in Lambda Predict, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue98/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue98/index.htm Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 97 (March 2009) includes articles about using multiple reliability tools to augument limited data and presents a way of using BlockSim's simulation log feature to help analyze data, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue97/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue97/index.htm Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability Edge Volume 9, Issue 2 includes articles on the financial impact of reliability on supplier section and maintenance planning, using simulation to determine the optimal interval for on-condition inspections and using change point analysis and DRBFM. http://www.reliabilitynews.com/v9i2/index.htm http://www.reliabilitynews.com/v9i2/index.htm Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 96 (February 2009) includes articles about comparing two producs using a single mentric and a discussion of preventive maintenance and the cost per unit time equation, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue96/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue96/index.htm Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 95 (January 2009) includes articles about using replicated runs and repeated runs in DOE++ and analysis of variance, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue95/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue95/index.htm Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 94 (December 2008) includes articles about using DOE++ to analyze unbalanced designs and using MTTF, MTBF, the mean time between replacements and MTBF with scheduled replacements, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue94/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue94/index.htm Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 93 (November 2008) includes articles about the interaction between House of Quality and FMEA and using OC curves in design of reliability tests, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue93/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue93/index.htm Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 92 (October 2008) includes articles about the likelihood value in Weibull++ and ALTA and derating for electronic components, illustrated using Lambda Predict, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue92/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue92/index.htm Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 91 (September 2008) includes articles about using BlockSim for system capability analysis and the Distribution Wizard in Weibull++, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue91/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue91/index.htm Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 90 (August 2008) includes articles about using ALTA with multi-stress physics of failure models and estimating the expected number of failures for items with minimal or perfect repair using Weibull++ and BlockSim, illustrated using Lambda Predict, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue90/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue90/index.htm Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 89 (July 2008) includes articles about modeling a complex maintenance scenario in BlockSim and using maintenance policies in BlockSim, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue89/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue89/index.htm Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability Edge Volume 9, Issue 1 includes articles on applying reliability DOE techniques, using reliability prediction methods for electronic products and using the Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process (NHPP) with underlying distributions of the location-scale family. http://www.reliabilitynews.com/v9i1/index.htm http://www.reliabilitynews.com/v9i1/index.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 88 (June 2008) includes articles about using DOE++'s reliability DOE for life testing and Type I and Type II errors, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue88/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue88/index.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 87 (May 2008) includes articles about using Weibull++ and ALTA to define complicated stress profiles and the use of residual plots for lifetime distributions, illustrated using DOE++, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue87/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue87/index.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 86 (April 2008) includes articles about using Weibull++ for degradation analysis in destructive testing and the residual sum of squares in Design of Experiments (DOE) analysis along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue86/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue86/index.htm Wed, 9 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 85 (March 2008) includes articles about using Weibull++ and ALTA for degradation analysis in destructive testing and Design of Experiments (DOE) design types along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue85/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue85/index.htm Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 84 (February 2008) includes articles about Design of Experiments (DOE) and use of the standard and modified Gompertz models to model software reliability growth in RGA along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue84/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue84/index.htm Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability Edge Volume 8, Issue 2 includes articles on Design for Reliability (DFR), accounting for seasonal effects in warranty analysis and reliability prediction for components in fatigue. http://www.reliabilitynews.com/v8i2/index.htm http://www.reliabilitynews.com/v8i2/index.htm Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 83 (January 2008) includes articles about analyzing life data with zero-time (out-of-the-box) failures (using Weibull++ and ALTA) and use of the Lloyd Lipow model to analyze success/failure and reliability data in RGA along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue83/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue83/index.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 82 (December 2007) includes articles about estimating reliability based on multiple random stress types (using Weibull++ and ALTA) and use of the logistic model to analyze success/failure and reliability data in RGA along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue82/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue82/index.htm Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 81 (November 2007) includes articles about life data analysis of load sharing configurations (using BlockSim and ALTA) and use of the Crow-AMSAA (NHPP) Discrete model to analyze success/failure data in RGA along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue81/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue81/index.htm Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 80 (October 2007) includes articles about analyzing excess system downtime through system modeling (using BlockSim) and a discussion of the appropriate ways to define reliability specifications along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue80/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue80/index.htm Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 79 (September 2007) includes articles about time-varying and multi-phase throughput analysis (using BlockSim) and different ways to calculate availability (also using RGA) along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue79/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue79/index.htm Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 78 (August 2007) includes articles about modeling grouped and opportunistic preventive maintenance (using BlockSim) and reliability growth analysis with missing or erroneous data (using RGA) along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue78/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue78/index.htm Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 77 (July 2007) includes articles about using FMEA templates to speed up and improve the quality of FMEA or RCM analyses and the use of Restoration Factors in BlockSim along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue77/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue77/index.htm Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability Edge Volume 8, Issue 1 includes articles on Reliability Phase Diagram (RPD) analysis, accelerated life test planning, automotive warranty analysis using mileage data and the Certified Reliability Professional (CRP) program. http://www.reliabilitynews.com/v8i1/index.htm http://www.reliabilitynews.com/v8i1/index.htm Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 76 (June 2007) includes articles about analysis of on-condition maintenance policies and basic steps of performing RCM analysis along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue76/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue76/index.htm Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability HotWire Issue 75 (May 2007) includes articles about using off-site spare part pools to maintain systems and models for accelerated life testing data analysis with time-varying stresses, along with software tool tips and other useful products and services announcements. http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue75/index.htm http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue75/index.htm Fri, 5 May 2007 12:00:00 -0700 Reliability Edge Volume 7, Issue 2 includes articles on Engineering Design By Reliability (EDBR), burn-in determination guidelines and analysis of automotive warranty data in the mileage domain. http://www.reliabilitynews.com/v7i2/index.htm http://www.reliabilitynews.com/v7i2/index.htm Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0700