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Foundations

Publié le par Bertrand Ricque

Catégories : #Thoughts

Time has come for me to go back to foundations and thus to Rudyard Kipling. If you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting...

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Hardware Fault tolerance (HFT)

Publié le par Bertrand Ricque

Catégories : #Jobs

Sarcastic process control dictionnary (continued) Hardware Fault Tolerance: concept initially targeted at limiting the consequences of a hardware fault. Implementation as a cooking recipe leads to: Hysterical and recursive application of HFT constraints...

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Safe Failure Fraction (SFF)

Publié le par Bertrand Ricque

Catégories : #Opinions

Sarcastic process control dictionnary (continued) Safe Failure Fraction: indicator of equipment bad quality. Index used to black list manufacturers. An equipement with a lambda DU of 10-5 and an SFF of 90% fails 5 times more than another equipment with...

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Partial Stroke Test (PST)

Publié le par Bertrand Ricque

Catégories : #Opinions

Part of a new sarcastic process control dictionnary. Partial stroke test: Valve test initially intended to (very) partially detect latent valve failures but actually generating additional systematic failures.

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