06 Reliability Importance, Reliability Allocation, & other Concepts

Module 5 Introduction to System Reliability

Lesson M05-06

Text: Section 4  pages 23 – 24

Duration: 17 minutes

Reliability Importance, Reliability Allocation, & other Concepts

The final lesson introduces some additional systems reliability concepts and methods. Reliability Importance analysis identifies the components that have the largest impact on the system reliability. This is an easy question for pure series and pure parallel systems but is not obvious for more complex systems. Reliability Allocation allows a system engineer to identify feasible reliability targets at the component level so that the system level reliability target may be achieved. A few other more advanced concepts are introduced.