The Basics of Derating Electronic Components

The Basics of Derating Electronic Components

As with strength-strength analysis, derating is a means to design robust systems.

Overview of System Reliability Modeling

Building and Using a Reliability Model

Confidence Interval Interpretations and Misunderstandings

Confidence Interval Interpretations and Misunderstandings

Confidence intervals (CIs)provide a means to judge point estimates based on a sample from the population.

Petri Nets for System Reliability Modeling

Petri Nets for System Reliability Modeling

A Petri net graph is a depiction of a system using a symbolic language. The modeling permits the analysis of complex systems or networks of systems.

The “What” & “Why” of Weibull Analysis

The “What” & More Importantly, The “Why” of Weibull Analysis

How to conduct a Weibull analysis and the questions the analysis will generate.

Effective FMEA Principles

Failure mode and effects analysis, or FMEA, is a tool for the identification and prioritization of possible ways a product or process can fail. The intent is to use that information to make improvements to the product or process.

Reliability with Confidence

Reliability with confidence

There are rare situations when we would like to estimate the reliability at the lower confidence level after estimating the mean from a sample (often a test result). And, to make even more rare of a…

A Brief Introduction to Fault Tree Analysis

Why and When use Fault Tree Analysis

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is technique to explore the many potential or actual causes of product or system failure. Best applied when there are many possible ways…

The Sum of Squares Concept

Why Do We Use the Sum the Squares so Often?

The data analysis course professor tended to focus on the practical application of statistics.