EBK PRINCIPLES OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
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Reliability metrics includes:
Select one:
a. Probability of failure on demand, Rate of occurrence of failures/Mean time to failure, and Availability
b. Probability of failure on demand
c. Availability
d. Rate of occurrence of failures/Mean time to failure
Robert Klassan Manufacturing, a medical equipment manufacturer, subjected 90 heart pacemakers to 4,000 hours of testing. Halfway through the testing, 6 pacemakers failed.
The failure rate in terms of: Percent of Failure is Confirmed by my Professor to be 6.7%
Number of Failures per unit-hour is Confirmed by my Professor to be 0.00001724 failures per hour
Can you show me how my professor got these answers?
Also what is the Number of Failures per unit year = ? Failures per year (round your response to four decimal places. I know that the answer is Not 3. My professor said the answer wasn't that simple.
Explain why a product or system might have an overall reliability that is low even though it is com- prised of components that have fairly high reliabilities.
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EBK PRINCIPLES OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
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