[SystemSafety] Comparing reliability predictions with reality

Peter Bernard Ladkin ladkin at causalis.com
Mon Feb 24 17:55:05 CET 2025


Dear me .......

On 2025-02-24 17:47 , Prof. Dr. Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
>
> I have a colleague whose company produces, amongst other things, software-based sensors for 
> industrial processes (chemical plants and so forth). In well over a decade of use, they have never 
> had a software error manifest in any piece of this one particular kit. I'd say that's evidence. 
> But it is also publicly available evidence.

What I meant to write is: that it is *not* publicly available evidence. I imagine it is available to 
legitimate assessors for clients under an NDA.

PBL

Prof. Dr. Peter Bernard Ladkin
Causalis Limited/Causalis IngenieurGmbH, Bielefeld, Germany
Tel: +49 (0)521 3 29 31 00



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