What problem does it solve?
Reliability engineering helps you quantify product or system failure behavior from data, then translate that behavior into actionable maintenance and design decisions.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Weibull analysis (with censored data): Fit Weibull distributions to failure-time data to estimate reliability metrics like MTTF, hazard rate, and B-life (e.g., B10/B50).
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA): Build AND/OR fault trees and compute the probability of a top event, plus importance measures (e.g., Birnbaum structural importance).
- FMEA and risk prioritization: Compute RPN (Severity × Occurrence × Detection) and highlight failure modes that likely need corrective action.
- Reliability block diagrams (series/parallel): Model system reliability using series/parallel (and k-of-n style logic) structures.
- Accelerated life testing (ALT): Use stress models such as Arrhenius or power-law to extrapolate to use conditions.
Quick Start
Use the reliability-engineering Skill to analyze a component’s failure-time dataset by fitting a Weibull model (including right-censored items), computing B-life and hazard rates, and ranking key risk drivers using FMEA RPN.