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The unique value of this book is that it is the defining document for an industry-wide Plant and Equipment Reliability Database. The intent, structure, and implementation of the database are described fully within the book and its appendices. This Guideline book, developed for the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), is designed as a text to be used by operating and maintenance staff, reliability engineers, design engineers, and risk analysts. it treats the broad topic of equipment reliability, but also provides details about the design and operation of a process-plant/equipment reliability database. The major objective of this book is to lay the foundation for an industry-wide reliability database. In fulfilling this objective, the book satisfies three auxiliary objectives. The first is to document and explain the theory of reliability data, including failure rates and the data structure employed by CCPS to accomplish its goals. The second is to demonstrate the usefulness of quality data by presenting worked examples. The text emphasizes that data needs are driven by analyses that provide added value. The book will help to illustrate this point. It will also help the reader understand how to actually carry out the analyses. The third objective is to provide an overview for the necessary quality assurance that must be implemented by both the plants maintaining a local database and a centralized database administrator to whom data is submitted for aggregation and distribution.