Your opinion on network analysis in the presence of uncertain events
adamv0025 at netconsultings.com
adamv0025 at netconsultings.com
Fri Jan 18 13:30:55 UTC 2019
> From: Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 9:21 PM
>
> MTBF can’t be used alone to predict failure probability, because product
> mortality follows the infamous “bathtub curve”. Products are as likely to fail
> early in their lives as later in their lives. MTBF as a scalar value is just an
> average.
>
Yes very good point -however that's where the historical data should come to rescue to help bend the MTBF line into this expected "bathtub curve".
adam
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