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Improving Reliability and Quality for Product Success
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Improving Reliability and Quality for Product Success

by Dongsu Ryu
May 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
226 pages
7h 18m
English
CRC Press
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16 Improving reliability and quality for product success
Since using the MTTF as a lifetime index breeds misunderstanding,
it should not be equated with lifetime. Clearly, the BX life index more
appropriately reects the real state of product reliability.
*
Note that its
inverse becomes the failure rate. The inverse of 20 years is an annual fail-
ure rate of 5%, which conforms with Table2.2.
The reason for extending the lifetime to 20 years is that lifetime is
calculated under the assumption that product failure is random. The
annual failure rate of 1% for rst-class home appliances is converted into
an MTTF of 100 years, ...
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ISBN: 9781466503793