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