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HxGN EAM Reliability Analysis

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Reliability engineers are interested in the probability that equipment or a component of that equipment will survive a certain time, meaning there is no failure in that stated time. If you take the above definition of the cumulative distribution function F(x) it can be said the reliability function or survival function must be the complement. If F(x) is the chance it will fail, then reliability can be defined as

You may also conclude that F(x) is unreliability.