Understanding

Equipment Failure
Patterns.

AGE-RELATED
Failures associated to
the equipment's time
in service.
Usually related to
corrosion, erosion, or
wear.
This can be measured
in time, frequency of
use, or both.
Accounts for 11% of all
failures

PATTERN A
Bathtub
High probability of
failure when the
equipment is new.
Low level of random
failures throughout life
Spike in failures at the
end of life
Example: hydraulic or
pneumatic cylinders.
4% of all failures

PATTERN B
Wear Out
Low level of random
failures from
installation and most of
life
Sharp increase in
failures at the end of
life
Examples: Light bulbs,
latches, piping.
2% of all failures

PATTERN C
Fatigue
Low level failures at
installation
Gradual increase in
failures over time
Examples: Brakes, tires,
drive belts.
5% of all failures

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Understanding
Equipment Failure
Patterns.

RANDOM
Failures without a
specific pattern
throughout the
equipment's life.
Best solved with
condition-based
maintenance
Accounts for 89% of
all failures

PATTERN D
Best New
Very low level of
failures at installation.
Sharp rise to a constant
level of failures where
capabilities are
reduced.
Examples: Springs, O-
Rings, Nuclear
Reactors.
Accounts for 7% of all
failures

PATTERN E
Random
Sporadic, random
failures over time.
Condition-Based
maintenance is the
best solution.
Examples: Bearings,
windows, ball-joints.
Accounts for 14% of
all failures.

PATTERN F
Infant Mortality
High rate of initial
failures immediately
after installation.
Random pattern of
failures is observed
through remainder of
life.
Examples: Relays, I/O
cards, TV's
Accounts for 68% of
all failures.

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 What do Failure
Patterns Mean to
Us?
Age-Related Preventive Maintenance
From what we observe with age-related
failures, only 11% of all components benefit
from having a defined life in our preventive
maintenance systems. Asset Metrics Hub
allows you to track the age of your
equipment and automates age-related
preventive maintenance scheduling.

Condition-Based Maintenance
With 89% of our components
displaying random failure patterns
and an undefined life, it doesn't
prevent us from being able
mitigate and/or prevent the
failures.

Asset Metric Hub's Solution

Asset Metrics Hub prevents
random equipment failures by
focusing on real-time condition
monitoring and automated task
prioritization to ensure the highest
risk work is done at the right time.

The Benefits of Automating your

CMMS
Through Asset Metrics Hub's
automated, time-based and
condition-based maintenance,
we can reduce repair costs,
administrative costs, and
increase the availability of our
assets.

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