The Risks of Using Failure Rate to Calculate Reliability Metrics
June 18th, 2017
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The Risks of Using Failure Rate to Calculate Reliability Metrics
A mistake that is often made when calculating reliability metrics is trying to use the failure rate function instead of the probability of failure function (CDF). These two functions, along with the probability density function (pdf) and the reliability function, make up the four functions that are commonly used to describe reliability data. In this article we will provide a brief overview of each of these four functions, followed by a discussion of how to obtain the pdf, CDF and reliability functions from the failure rate function. Finally, we will present an example of the error that can be introduced in unreliability calculations by using an approximation based on the failure rate.
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