DocumentCode
1877372
Title
Break rate: a reliability parameter for surge operations
Author
Seger, James K.
Author_Institution
Lockheed Aeronaut. Syst. Co., Burbank, CA, USA
fYear
1990
fDate
23-25 Jan 1990
Firstpage
400
Lastpage
403
Abstract
A method for measuring the break rate (BR) of an individual avionics system is described. The method is convenient early in the design process and accounts for item criticality, redundancy, task deferrability, and when deferred tasks are repaired. Also introduced is a new criterion of effectiveness, sortie loss rate, as an alternative to BR. Sortie loss rate has the benefit of measuring the total number of potential military sorties missed due to unscheduled maintenance. BR is calculated as the number of sorties missed divided by the number of sorties attempted. An alternative way to compute BR is one minus the ratio of actual sorties launched to attempted sorties
Keywords
aircraft instrumentation; maintenance engineering; military equipment; reliability; aircraft instrumentation; break rate; criticality; design; maintenance; military systems; redundancy; reliability; sortie loss rate; task deferrability; Availability; Frequency estimation; Hardware; Loss measurement; Maintenance; Military aircraft; Redundancy; Steady-state; Surges; Weapons;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 1990. Proceedings., Annual
Conference_Location
Los Angeles, CA
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ARMS.1990.67991
Filename
67991
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