Forum: Reliability & Maintainability Questions and Answers
Posted by: Ken Date posted: Sat Aug 31 0:59:37 US/Eastern 2002 Subject: Reliability Growth Testing Mil-STD-189 Message: I would like to ask if there is Reclassification of failures in RDGT. In RD, we allow to reclassify the failures if proven that the corrective actions are effective through further testing. Is it stated anywhere in MIL-189 that we can or cannot reclassify failures in RDGT. Secondly, if my RDGT target is to meet MTBF of 700 hrs, what is the recommended test duration required for RDGT. Thirdly, what distribution does AMSAA model follows? (e.g exponential or weibull?) is it applicable for complex mechanical and electronic system?
Posted by: Ken Organization:ST Date posted: Sat Aug 31 0:54:45 US/Eastern 2002 Subject: maintainability prediction Message: DO we provide any safety factor for maintainability prediction? For e.g if i predicted 4 hours for a specific maintenace level in army context, do i allow contractor to specify the guaranteed MTTR or Mmax to be at 4.5 hours instead of the predicted value? In reliabilty prediction we are taught that predicted reliabilty must be at least 2 times higher than guaranteed reliabilty. Does that apply for Maintaninability Prediction as well?
Posted by: Dwayne (ekimhua@hotmail.com ) Organization:DSO Date posted: Sat Aug 31 0:48:23 US/Eastern 2002 Subject: Accelerated Reliability Demonstration Message: Is it a good idea to perform an accelerated RD? Originally our plan is to perform it over a span of 5 years but i intend to compressed it into 2 yrs instead so that failures can be surfaced quickly. Any comments from RD point of view? thanks
Posted by: Craig Benton (cbenton@beissd.com ) Organization:Reliability Date posted: Thu Aug 22 15:59:43 US/Eastern 2002 Subject: Mean Time Between Unscheduled Maintenance (MTBUM) Message: I am trying to find a source for a full explanation of this subject (MTBUM). Could anyone direct me? Thanks ahead of time.
Posted by: Uma Date posted: Wed Aug 21 9:23:43 US/Eastern 2002 Subject: Year of manufacture Message: The year of manufacture (used in piG calculation)is supposed to be the year the part was manufactured. Everything is normalised to 1993. But what about a part that was first manufactured in say 2001? If I buy it in 2002, it is only a year old. Shouldn't the piG for this part be much higher? If I use 2002 as the year of manufacture, PRISM gives me a much lower piG value (since it uses the 1993 normalised data). I would have assumed "delta t", the time since it was first manufactured (maturity level) would be used to calculate the growth rate.
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