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Boxes, States and Averages: Reliability Block Diagrams, Markov Models and the Maths of Availability (IEC 61078, IEC 61165, IEC 61703)
Train Four's availability guarantee survived its first study, but the client's reliability consultant wants to see the working. Leila Darwish has to explain, box by box and state by state, how a reliability block diagram and a Markov model get from a failure rate in a database to a number in a contract. Rafa Ortega wants one number; Sven Lindqvist wants the model to know that his compressors are never repaired on a Friday. Along the way: what series and parallel really mean, why two pumps are not twice as good as one, the maths that sits behind every availability claim, and the moment when a…
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