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Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:34 PM
PFU - Probability of Failing to Understand
Recently I got caught up in a reliability discussion between a user and a vendor. The user worked for a large O&G company, and the vendor worked for a large company who manufactured process instrumentation. In this particular exchange, the user was
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