Plant Reliability Engineer Question:
What is the difference between: standby, backup and redundant equipment?
Answer:
In reliability engineering one way to get high plant and equipment reliability is to provide an extra unit that is available to immediately replace the duty unit when it fails. The configuration of the second unit can be as a standby, or as a redundancy, or as a backup.
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