Forum: Reliability & Maintainability Questions and Answers

Topic: Reliability & Maintainability Questions and Answers

Topic Posted by: Reliability & Maintainability Forum (src_forum@alionscience.com )
Organization: System Reliability Center
Date Posted: Mon Aug 31 12:47:36 US/Eastern 1998
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Posted by: Kenneth
Date posted: Sat Dec 7 21:56:04 US/Eastern 2002
Subject: MTBF useless??
Message:
Since there're so many doubts pertaining to MTBF. Can i say that MTBF is useless when describing mechanical parts since wearout predominates after certain amount of time. Just like someone point out the example of a motor having wear life of 5 yrs and MTBF of 150,000hrs. In this case there's no need to specify MTBF because it serves no purpose at all right? Even in our spares provisioning, we should not use MTBF of 150,000hrs since in real life it's not going to survive close to that value. Can i suggest that using wear life in our reliabiliy or spares provisioning analysis is more appropriate when comes to mechanical parts?

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