How to estimate and use MTTF/MTBF would the real MTBF please stand up?

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 353-359

  Krasich, Milena ^a,b  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^b Raytheon IDS   (United States)

Author keywords

Mean failure rate; Mean MTTF; MTBF; Operational stress; Reliability; Use profile; Use stress

Indexed keywords

MEAN FAILURE RATE; MEAN MTTF; MTBF; OPERATIONAL STRESS; USE PROFILE; USE STRESS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MAINTAINABILITY; OBSOLESCENCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; REPAIR; STRESSES;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 70349146685     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2009.4914702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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