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From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham)
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Subject: Re: Predictive failures
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 08:56:55 +0100
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Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

> ...When I was designing for pharma, my philosophy was
> to make it easy/quick to replace the entire control system.  Let someone
> troubleshoot it on a bench instead of on the factory floor (which is
> semi-sterile).

That's fine if the failure is clearly in the equipment itself, but what
if it is in the way it interacts with something outside it, some
unpredictable or unrecognised input codition?  It works perfectly on the
bench, only to fail when put into service   ...again and again.


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