Age-reliability characteristics

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The characteristics exhibited by the conditional probability curve represent the relationship between the operating age of an item and its probability of failure.

Actuarial analysis
Statistical analysis of failure data to determine the age-reliability characteristics of an item.

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About Fred Schenkelberg

I am the reliability expert at FMS Reliability, a reliability engineering and management consulting firm I founded in 2004. I left Hewlett Packard (HP)’s Reliability Team, where I helped create a culture of reliability across the corporation, to assist other organizations.

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