Failure Definition and Failure Criteria in Reliability Engineering
Reliability is a probability of not failing, which is meaningless until 'failure' is a written, testable criterion — a parameter out of limits, a function lost, a mission aborted. Ambiguous failure definitions are why two teams compute different MTBFs from the same test log. Every counting, plotting and reporting node downstream depends on this being fixed first.
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Reliability is a probability of not failing, which is meaningless until 'failure' is a written, testable criterion — a parameter out of limits, a function lost, a mission aborted. Ambiguous failure definitions are why two teams compute different MTBFs from the same test log. Every counting, plotting and reporting node downstream depends on this being fixed first.
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