FIELD DATA

DETERMINATION OF FAILURE RATE & RELIABILITY

Failure rate
# of during
failures interval Reliability
# of units surviving
during N f (t ) the interval N (t )
Life in interval  (t )  R(t )  se
hours Nf (t) N eb (t )  t N se (t )  N 0   N f (t ) N0

0-10 78 0.039 122 0.610

10-20 43 0.035 79 0.395

20-30 25 0.032 54 0.270

30-40 15 0.028 39 0.195

40-50 10 0.026 29 0.145

50-60 7 0.024 22 0.110

60-70 5 0.023 17 0.085

70-80 4 0.024 13 0.065

80-90 3 0.023 10 0.050

90-100 1 0.010 9 0.045

over 100 9 0.100 0 0.000

N0 = 200

Determining rel. para. from field data 7/11/2010