
Reliability Making Money — Case Study of just looking at a Weibull plot
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
Reliability engineers LOVE Weibull plots. They often make sense out of a bunch of seemingly random points. Or at least we feel like they make sense. Anything that turns a bunch of random points into a straight line is automatically making sense … right? Wrong. It is up to us as reliability engineers to look at Weibull plots and work out what is going on.
In this episode, we look at an actual Weibull plot for an actual example – a mining truck. And the challenge will be for us to identify the likely reasons our engine is failing. And more importantly, what we can do to … make money. And yes – we actually know what was going on for real with our mining trucks’ engines. So let’s put our expertise to the test! If this sounds interesting to you … join me at this webinar!
This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 23 February 2021.

- Social:
- Link:
- Embed:
To view the recorded video/audio of the event, visit the webinar page.
Related Content
Weibull Analysis and Physics Trumps Mathematics episode
A Discussion on Weibull Analysis with Fred Schenkelberg episode
An Excel – VBA Driven Weibull Calculator article
What is Weibull Distribution? episode
Questions to Ask about Data Analysis episode

Finding Value with Reliability Tasks
This webinar discusses the importance of estimated value and helps you discover and state the value of common reliability activities.

Life Cycle Cost Analysis for a Reliability Engineer
Life cycle cost: Let’s explore estimating the total lifecycle costs for a complex system from the point of view of a reliability engineer.

Predicting the Value of a Reliability Goal in Your Organization
When setting a reliability goal, considere the value that reliability goal may provide. Let's explore three ways you can estimate the value.

Fundamentals of Cost of Poor Reliability
A discussion of the wide range of the impact of the cost of poor reliability on engineers, organizations, customers, and society.

Fundamentals of the Cost of Unreliability
When a product or system fails there is a consequence. Often there is a loss of value. A warranty replacement costs money.

The Reliability Value Map. It is a thing.
A value map is an organized chart that helps you track down every possible ‘good’ thing that reliability can do for you.

Reliability Making Money
You need to work out how many spare parts, so put some numbers in a computer and use the that result. Right?

Reliability Making Money 2 — Case Study
Let's explore a Weibull plot and enjoy reliability making money. In this episode, we look at an actual Weibull plot for an actual example

How to Make a Decision
This webinar takes you through the key steps of decision-making – particularly relating to reliability engineering.
Leave a Reply