Operating Characteristic Analysis for Reliability Growth Programs

Abstract

Operating characteristic (OC) analysis concepts are extended to the reliability growth setting Consumer (Government) and producer (contractor) statistical risks are expressed in terms of the reliability growth curve parameters, test duration, and reliability requirement. For a given confidence level, these risks are shown to depend solely on the expected number of failures during the growth test and the ratio of the MTBF to be achieved at the end of the growth program to the MTBF technical requirement to be demonstrated with confidence. Formulas are developed for computing these risks as a function of the test duration and growth curve planning parameters.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA254993

Entities

People

  • Paul M. Ellner
  • Robert E. Mioduski

Organizations

  • United States Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Consumers
  • Contractors
  • Engineering
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Governments
  • Logistics
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Systems Analysis
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • Materials Science (Mechanical Engineering).
  • Regression Analysis.