Please assist us in finding the best root cause
failure analysis (RCFA) database suitable for our use or an
RCFA database that's being used by world-class companies."
This is not the first such request we have received and we
can't blame maintenance-technical individuals for harboring
the hope that relevant data are out there,
somewhere.
Sometimes we're not exactly sure what the person is
asking for, but we suspect it's a listing of what goes wrong
and why in equipment, machines and components. Such listings
are available. In one source the reader will find projected
life expectancies of machine components, as compile
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