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Availability

In reliability engineering, the term availability has the following meanings:

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Availability

Nodes30
Edges29
Triples61
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.066667
Components1

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Availability

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related to Sources · 13
Availability → Analysis, Applications, Archived, Availability Engineering, Bobbio, Cambridge University Press, Federal Standard, General Services Administration, MIL-STD-188, Modeling, Reliability, This, Trivedi
related to Literature · 12
Availability → Barlow, Blanchard, Hwang, If, Lie, Mi, MIL-STD-721, Nachlas, Proschan, The, This, Tillman
related to Definitions within systems engineering · 7
Availability → Ai, Inherent, It, MTBF, MTTF, MTTR, The
related to External links · 6
Availability → Availability BasicsSystem Reliability, AvailabilityAvailability, Calculate ItHow, Different Ways, Reliability, Technical Availability
related to Representation · 6
Availability → Another, Mean Time Between Failure, Mean Time To Failure, MTBF, MTTF, The
has application · 4
Availability → Corporation, For, Generating Availability Data System, North American Electric Reliability
has method · 4
Availability → Fault Tree Analysis, Reliability, Reliability Block Diagrams, Uncertainty
related to Series vs Parallel components · 2
Availability → Let's, Then
is a · 1
Availability → probability that an item will be in an operable and committable state at the start of a mission when the mission is called for at a random time
see also · 1
Availability → DependabilityReliability

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time system downtime engineering maintenance reliability probability item failure point used support components mean repair 1998 mission operate satisfactorily given

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Availabilityis aprobability that an item will be in an operable and committable state at the start of a mission when the mission is called for at a random time0.90text
quantityinstance ofThis measure extends the definition of availability to elements controlled by the logisticians and mission planners0.80text
proximity of sparesinstance ofThis measure extends the definition of availability to elements controlled by the logisticians and mission planners0.80text
toolsinstance ofThis measure extends the definition of availability to elements controlled by the logisticians and mission planners0.80text
manpower to the hardware item.Refer to Systems engineering for more detailsBasic exampleIf we are using equipment which has a mean time to failureinstance ofThis measure extends the definition of availability to elements controlled by the logisticians and mission planners0.80text
manpower to the hardware item.Refer to Systems engineering for more details Basic exampleIf we are using equipment which has a mean time to failureinstance ofThis measure extends the definition of availability to elements controlled by the logisticians and mission planners0.80text
Availabilityhas applicationFor0.60section
Availabilityhas applicationNorth American Electric Reliability0.60section
Availabilityhas applicationCorporation0.60section
Availabilityhas applicationGenerating Availability Data System0.60section
Availabilityhas methodReliability Block Diagrams0.60section
Availabilityhas methodFault Tree Analysis0.60section

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