{"id":22,"date":"2011-08-23T22:11:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T02:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reliabilityanalytics.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2012-09-21T11:17:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T15:17:59","slug":"reliability-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliabilityanalytics.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/23\/reliability-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reliability is the probability that an item will perform its intended function for a specified interval under stated conditions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A &#8220;reliability function&#8221; is this same probability expressed as a function of the time period. Thus, reliability relates to the frequency with which failures occur. Here &#8220;failure&#8221; means &#8220;unsatisfactory performance,&#8221; usually representing a judgment of an operator or a maintenance person. This does not preclude the possibility of clear-cut failure, such as complete inoperability, in which case judgment really does not enter at all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1. MIL-HDBK-338, <a href=\"https:\/\/assist.daps.dla.mil\/quicksearch\/basic_profile.cfm?ident_number=54022\">Electronic Reliability Design Handbook<\/a>, 15 Oct 84<br \/>\n2. MIL-STD-721, <a href=\"https:\/\/assist.daps.dla.mil\/quicksearch\/basic_profile.cfm?ident_number=35912\">Definitions of Terms for Reliability and Maintainability<\/a>, 23 Oct 91<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliability is the probability that an item will perform its intended function for a specified interval under stated conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,9],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions","tag-definitions","tag-reliability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliabilityanalytics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliabilityanalytics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliabilityanalytics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliabilityanalytics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliabilityanalytics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/reliabilityanalytics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/reliabilityanalytics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliabilityanalytics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliabilityanalytics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliabilityanalytics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}