Apportionment

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The breakdown or allocation of reliability goals or objectives to elements within the product.

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allocation

Reliability allocation
The process of breaking down system reliability and availability objectives to subsystems and major components. Reliability allocation specifies clearly stated reliability goals for all elements of an item. This information is useful when seeking suitable elements (parts or subsystems). It gives a means to compare the reliability performance of subsystems or elements to a specific and measurable objective.

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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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