Asset Maintainability and Reliability Metrics

Failure Failure
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MTBF Action

MTBR
MTTR
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Figure 1 - Asset Metrics

The three main measurements of asset maintainability and reliability are as follow.
1. Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
It is the average elapsed time between failures. eAM will implement it as the duration in days
between two failure dates of an asset. It is a reliability metric indicating how often an asset fails.

2. Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)

It is the average time between when an asset fails (reported failure date, for eAM) and when it is
repaired back to its normal operating condition (actual work order completion date, for eAM). It
is a maintainability metric, indicating how fast repair can be completed once a failure is reported.

3. Mean Time Between Repairs (MTBR)

MTBR = MTBF – MTTR. Conceptually, it is the average duration when an asset is in acceptable
functional condition. EAM will not display MTBR in its Failure Analysis pages.

4. Failure Frequency
This is the number of failure per unit time.
Frequency = 1 / Time Between Failures