
Introduction
This is a rather depressing title for an article specifically on the topic of Reliability. After all, Reliability relates to the Probability of Success hence the contradiction.
However, the contradiction is not so much one as Reliability Analysis depends on having access to failure data. In other words, if the equipment does not fail, it might be difficult or even impossible to perform an analysis. Of course, we can source other types of data that are not failure records, but this is not the common approach.
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