M01 Reliability Concepts & Data

Module 1 Reliability Concepts & Data

Lesson M01-00

Text: Section 1

Duration: 2 minutes

Introduction to Reliability Concepts & Data Module

In this introductory module, we define Reliability and cover many important reliability concepts.  We discuss why reliability performance is so important and the types of questions that may be answered by analyzing failure data.  Different types of reliability data are reviewed.  We introduce the concept of censored data which allows us to correctly utilize partial or incomplete data in the analysis of test or field data.  We cover the Bathtub Curve which illustrates the types of failures that may occur over a product’s lifetime.  Finally, we introduce the reliability function.