Setting reliability requirements based on minimum failure-free operating periods

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 273-287

  Todinov, M T ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering; Minimum failure free operating period; Poisson process; Random failures; Reliability; Reliability requirements

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DECARBURIZATION; HEALTH CARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RISK MANAGEMENT;

DATA SETS; MINIMUM FAILURE-FREE OPERATING PERIOD (MFFOP); RANDOM FAILURES; RELIABILITY REQUIREMENTS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 2942724300     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.529     Document Type: Article

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