I'm a big fan of books and by extension of reliabilty literature. One of my favourites in this area is the 1984 book by Ascher & Feingold, "Repairable systems reliabilty".
These gentlemen surely were mad!
The preface is full of powerful quotes, of which one of my favourites is this one:
"The problem, instead, is that the following basic concept is not understood: a repairable system's reliability is improving if it fails less frequently with increasing operating time."
They wrote this about 38 years ago, but I'm seriously wondering if we have moved beyond this issue and made this knowledge common sense. What do you think?
Over the following weeks and months I'm planning on diving deeper into the matter. And I would like to find out what misconceptions (as they put it) we have accomplished to resolve in practice.
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