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France Division
Applications, Equipment and Services Division
Medium Voltage Operational Activities

MEAN OPERATING TIME TO FAILURE (MTTF)

OF MEDIUM VOLTAGE SF6 METALCLAD SWITCHGEAR MCset TYPE

Terms
We consider the hypothesis that the failure rate is constant during all the useful
life time of the equipment (exponential reliability law).
According to this hypothesis and as the Mean Down Time (MDT) is negligible
in comparison to the Mean Up Time (MUT), the Mean Operating Time Between
Failures (MTBF) is similar to the MTTF.

Formula
Nb of failures recorded on the equipment during the observation time {1 year}
Failure rate = 
(nb of equip. manufactured at the end of the observ. time) X nb of hours in the observ. time {8760}

unit = mean number of failures by hour

1
MTTF = 
failure rate X nb of hours in the observ. time {8760}

unit = years

Result
According to the total number of installed Mcset cubicles since 1996,
considering the major and critical defects on the 1998 period :
- the operational failure rate is 2,23x10-7 failures by hour
- the corresponding MTTF is about 512 years .

P.RIVIERE Date : 08/03/2000

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