Sales Forecasting – Introduction
Sales forecasting is the process of estimating future sales. Accurate sales forecasts…
Approaches to Ensuring the Reliability and Safety
From a reliability point of view, every technical object can be either…
Failure Analysis
The analysis of failures is very important for revealing the cause of…
Introduction to diagnostics
The reliability of many objects, machines, transport means, various appliances, or processes…
Maintenance
The operational reliability and service life of machines, vehicles, various appliances, bridges,…
Time to Failure of Deteriorating Objects
As we have seen in Chapter 4, failure rate often changes with…
Reliability of Systems
Many objects consist of more parts or elements. From reliability point of…
Bathtub Curve
Failure rate, as defined in Chapter 3, can change with time. Figure 1 shows…
Characteristics of Reliability
Reliability is usually characterized by the probability of failure or by the…
Probability basics
The occurrence of failures is usually accompanied by some uncertainty. This is…


