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Originally Posted by Qbot2640
No...you're absolutely right. For a true measure we would need a great deal of data, I'm more concerned with having a general idea if the component "should" have failed. If a spike is only a year old and fails we may investigate differently than if it is several years old and fails.
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Ah, I see, that makes sense.
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Originally Posted by Ajennings8896
Thanks a lot guys, this info should help a lot in this process, and as for custom serial numbers, should I just use a label maker and start at one or do you recommend a specific system for that?
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You can use your serial numbers to do a bit of organization too.
For instance, a particular digit in the number could signify something. Say you decide that you'll use six-digit numbers for serials. The first number could designate what group it's associated with.
So maybe a number like:
1xxxxx would be a shop tool
2xxxxx would be robot components
3xxxxx for electronics
4xxxxx for computers
And so on. And then you can even have sub-categories.
So a 11xxxx might be a shop hand tool, 12xxxx a power tool, 13xxxx for machine tooling (drill bits, endmills, lathe tools, saw blades, etc).
In the same way, under electronics you might have categories for motors, motor controllers, etc.
Though you probably want to leave the last two or three digits to be the actual item number, which would just start at 1 and go from there.