The MTBF and Modeling System Reliability
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
The Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) appears in lots of textbooks and standards, so it must be really important … right? Well, not really. The MTBF is the most overused and misunderstood term in reliability engineering, including system reliability modeling, where we can find textbooks and standards with equations that allow you to calculate system MTBF from component MTBFs. If you are unsure why the MTBF is bad, especially for system reliability modeling, then join us for this webinar, where we will illustrate with pictures (not equations) what the MTBF is and how bad it can be to focus on it as a reliability performance metric.
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 26 March 2024.
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Additional content that may be of interest
Only Have MTBFs episode
How Do I Do MTBF Testing episode
What’s Wrong with MTBF episode
How to Talk About MTBF episode
Exploring Alternatives to MTBF
You may already know my position on MTBF. If not, in short, do not use MTBF at all, ever, in any form. So what should we use instead.
What To Do When A Customer Requests MTBF
what specific steps you can take to help your customer actually use your the stated reliability goal and not MTBF.
What You Need to Know About MTBF
No time to understand MTBF, and your organization relies on the reliability of its products, you are almost certainly in trouble.
What to Do About MTBF Use
The proper and improver responses to someone asking about or requesting MTBF information. Some to avoid and some to use regularly.
How Do I Do MTBF Testing?
If you want to learn more about MTBF testing and how it might (or might not) work … then view this recording.
Why You Should Avoid MTBF
This morning’s email included a question on why I was so against using MTBF. This episode is my answer and why one should avoid MTBF
The MTBF and Modeling System Reliability
The Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) appears in lots of textbooks and standards, so it must be really important … right? Well, not really.
I would like to point out that in the description “About Christopher Jackson” there may or may not be a typo. “he is focusing no developing online….” Thanks for all the content!
Yep, a typo, thanks for letting us know. cheers, Fred