Traditionally, reliability activities have focused on the evaluation and assessment of reliability of products by analyzing actual test data or field data. These methods are costly and ‘after-the-fact’. Further, classical reliability... more
Traditionally, reliability activities have focused on the evaluation and assessment of reliability of products by analyzing actual test data or field data. These methods are costly and ‘after-the-fact’. Further, classical reliability evaluation of systems is based on the assumption that the components comprising the system work independently and their failures are assumed to be statistically mutually independent events. In reality
