Among suppliers and resellers, pieces of equipment break down all the time, and that generates excessive costs with maintenance and could even lead to the termination of contracts worth millions. By and large, these failures happen due to usage time, when the probability of their occurrence will differ between the steps of the life cycle associated with machines and equipment or any given operation. Any piece of equipment usually has, at the beginning of its normal life, a high failure rate due to manufacturing problems, improper installation, faulty components, and incorrect assembly. Over time these failures are corrected, and the equipment reaches a level of stability, with a failure rate that remains constant.

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