• DocumentCode
    1321252
  • Title

    Relcomp: A Computer Program for Calculating System Reliability and MTBF

  • Author

    Fleming, James L.

  • Author_Institution
    Interstate Electronics Corporation, Anaheim, Calif. 92803.
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1971
  • Firstpage
    102
  • Lastpage
    107
  • Abstract
    A conversational time-sharing computer program called Relcomp can be used for rapid and economical calculation of the reliability and mean time between failures (MTBF) of systems consisting of serial and redundant units. Relcomp is simple to use and does not require any special knowledge of programming. A copy of the complete Relcomp program listing is provided in Tymshare Super Basic language. Use of the program to calculate the reliability and MTBF of a system, its subsystems, and blocks is illustrated by examples.
  • Keywords
    Algorithms; Equations; Guidelines; Mathematical model; Programming; Redundancy; Reliability engineering; Tellurium; Time sharing computer systems; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1971.5216107
  • Filename
    5216107