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Mission Profile Calculation

Mission Profile Calculation

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After defining a mission profile, you can obtain reliability estimates for the product.

Note Recalculate the product tree before computing a mission profile. See Reliability Calculation chapter for reliability calculation techniques.

To compute mission profile reliability:

1Activate the Product tree view.
2From the Modules menu, choose Mission Profile; the Mission Profile dialog box opens.
3Select the mission profile from the MP Name list box.
4Choose Analyze MP button.

RAM Commander displays the mission profile report in a report window:

MissionProfileReport

The report includes the following information:

Description of all mission phases
Failure rate during each phase
MTBF during each phase
Failure rate phase duration
Reliability for each phase
Unreliability for each phase
Total mission reliability

 

Total Failure Rate Formula

The total failure rate for a mission containing n + 1 phases is calculated as follows:

MP_Formula

where

MP_Formula1

- total mission failure rate over n + 1 phases

MP_Formula2

- total mission failure rate for the first phase

α1

- test coverage during transition from first phase to second phase; a fraction in the range [0; 1] where 0 means no testing, and 1 means complete fault isolation between phases

λ1

- total failure rate of the system for the first phase

 t1

- duration in hours of the first phase