Forum: Reliability & Maintainability Questions and AnswersTopic: Reliability & Maintainability Questions and AnswersTopic Posted by: Reliability & Maintainability Forum (src_forum@alionscience.com )Organization: System Reliability Center Date Posted: Mon Aug 31 12:47:36 US/Eastern 1998
Original Message:Posted by: Lanna ParkinsonDate posted: Mon May 13 18:59:00 US/Eastern 2002 Subject: How to define the mission time for a Ticket Vending Machine Message: A Ticket Vending Machine (TVM) is always in a hot standby state. It is operating when there is a transaction request. Does its mission time only include the ticket transaction time, or will the dormant time be included? Could someone recommend some reference information on reliability concepts about hot-standby component? Thanks in advance. Lanna |