Reliability HotWire is a monthly eMagazine by ReliaSoft providing information and tips on how to best improve your reliability practices and get the most out of ReliaSoft’s tools for reliability and life data analysis.
This Month’s Hot Topic
Failure Rate of Redundant Configurations in Lambda Predict
Standards based reliability prediction methods typically assume that the failure rates for the components in a system are constant (i.e., the components are modeled by exponential distributions) and that the system fails if any component in the system fails (i.e., the system is arranged reliability-wise in series). When these two conditions are met, the system failure rate is constant. ReliaSoft’s reliability prediction software, Lambda Predict, allows the user to improve upon the traditional standards based reliability method through the use of redundant reliability configurations at the block and system levels. This article addresses how redundancy affects the failure rates of systems composed of constant failure rate components.
For full article, view: Reliability Hotwire – Issue 181 Mar 2016