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ReliaStats® Guides
Reliability From Downtime Data

Turning stop logs into the time-to-failure and time-to-repair distributions a line model runs on. Fitting them from line event data is the job of ReliaStats.

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Downtime Data Analysis for Production Lines

From a stop log to failure-mode distributions a simulation can run: event data, cause groups, TTF and TTR, fitting and validation.

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Downtime Pareto: Frequency, Duration and Lost Throughput

Rank stops by count, by minutes or by production recovered. Why the three charts disagree and how to get from a Pareto to root cause.

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Reliability

MTBF vs MTTR: Outputs, Not Inputs

MTBF and MTTR summarize what happened. A model needs TTF and TTR distributions per failure mode, and MTBF, MTTR and OEE come out of the run.

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Reliability

Weibull Analysis of Downtime Data

What the shape and scale parameters mean, why to fit each failure mode separately, goodness of fit, and how fits feed a line simulation.

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Reliability

Availability vs Reliability

The share of time up versus the chance of running without a stop. Inherent vs operational availability, and why buffers change which one matters.

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More on line throughput, OEE, bottlenecks and buffers in the ReliaSim® guides.