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ME 685 Product Reliability:
3. V.N.A Naikan, Reliability Engineering and Life Testing, Eastern Economy Ed.
Reliable product A product which gives trouble free operation during its
expected life time.
Quality of components
Manufacturing process
Operating conditions
Skill of the operator etc.
Complexity of product
Reliability Engineering teaches us how to quantify this uncertainty,
using Statistical measures such as :
Probability of failure
Failure rates
Mean time between failures
Availability
Maintainability etc.
Failure Models: Increasing failure rate, Decreasing failure rate, Constant failure rate.
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Definitions of Reliability: R(t):
Reliability of an item R(t), is defined as the probability that it will perform without
failure under stated conditions for a period of time t.
Reliability=1-Prob. of failure
Eg:
0.4 is the probability of failure of a light bulb after say after 10,000 hrs
service.
It is the proportion of samples which have not failed for the stated time,
out of a large number of samples.
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1.0
R(t)
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(c) Rate of Occurrence of Failures (ROCOF)
This is the failure rate of repairable systems which can be used again and again.
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The true reliability of a component is never exactly known.
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