Resetting the Bathtub Curve: Improving System Reliability

1. Where is Your Control System On The Bathtub Curve? Failure Rate Time

2. Failure rate during operations Failure rate during start-up Failure rate after some years of operations

3. 10 Years on an analog system

4. At the 10–year point we can flatten out the failure rate and improve the reliability of the system.

5. At 30 years the potential increase in failure rate can severely increase your downtime 30Years on an analog system But with timely intervention we can still reset reliability

6. For digital control systems there is a ‘shadow’ failure rate at about 5 years 5 years

7. 5 years It is not an actual failure rate.

8. It is a potential loss of technical support for software and hardware due to system obsolescence. 5 years

9. 5 years A failure at this point could cause serious downtime if you are not well stocked with spares, including spare laptops of appropriate vintage loaded with the right software and firmware.

10. X We can help you with this, too.

11. Wherever you are on your bathtub curve, let us reset it for you.