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Incipient & Hidden

Incipient Failure
Imperfection in the state or condition of an
item so that a degraded or critical failure
might (or might not) eventually be the
expected result if corrective actions are not
taken.
Source: API STD 689, Collection and Exchange
of Reliability and Maintenance Data for
Equipment, First Edition, July
2007.GlobalStandards

Hidden Failure or Dormant Failure


Hidden failures (dormant) are failures that are
not detected by themselves and that need a
specific action (e.g. periodic test) to be
identified.
Source: API STD 689, Collection and Exchange
of Reliability and Maintenance Data for
Equipment, First Edition, July 2007. Global
Standards

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