13.07.2015 Views

MIL-STD-1629-RevA - Barringer and Associates, Inc.

MIL-STD-1629-RevA - Barringer and Associates, Inc.

MIL-STD-1629-RevA - Barringer and Associates, Inc.

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

<strong>MIL</strong>-<strong>STD</strong>-<strong>1629</strong>AWhere:C= “ Criticality number for the item.Cm = Criticality number for a failure mode under a particularseverity classification (see 4.4.3).fi= Conditional probability of mission loss given that thefailure mode has occurred.“(3= Failure mode ratio. The probability, expressed as a decimalfraction, that the part or item will fail in the identifiedmode.A = Part failure rate.PIt should be noted that failure rates are usually defined in terms offailures per million hours (fx10‘6) a[ld, for simplification purposes,equation (1) may be multiplied by a factor of 106 to eliminate anunnecessary degree of arithmetic precision in worksheet entries. Thatis, ic is easier to enter criticality number on the worksheets as 1.08than to enter 1.08 x 1o-6 or 0.00000108. Tl)e importance of the criticalitynumber is in providing a relative ranking of the failures or failuremodes <strong>and</strong> not in the absolute value of the riurner’ic.For example, the calculations for C,n<strong>and</strong> ~r for a given mission ph

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!