Confused about Confidence
Confused about Confidence
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I was presented with a problem that I am not sure how to go about solving. If a product is to be used 600 times in a year, what would be the amount of tests I need to do without fail that would suggest with 90% confidence that this product would not fail in that year? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
RE: Confused about Confidence
This is equivalent to SIL (Safety Integrity Level) of 2, which is quite common for many industrial devices.
Depending on the product configuration (redundancy, voting system) and hardware fault tolerance you will come up with the required frequency of full proof tests to maintain the required SIL level.
For more information refer to IEC 61508 and IEC 61511. See also https://www.exida.com/articles/White-Paper-Key-Var...
Dejan IVANOVIC
Process Engineer, MSChE
RE: Confused about Confidence
Do you know what the MTBF is supposed to be? Usually, the innate failure rate can be used in the probability integral to predict with some level of confidence what the probability of failure is within a certain period of time, but it's a very coarse estimate. Nevertheless, unless you are talking about wearout or fatigue, classical failures are RANDOM, and are not predictable.
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