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Reliability - Downtime from MTBF/MTTR

System availability A = MTBF / (MTBF + MTTR) and annual downtime hours - the baseline uptime metric for critical marine equipment.

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Formula, assumptions, and limits

A=MTBFMTBF+MTTRA = \frac{MTBF}{MTBF + MTTR}
SymbolMeaningUnit
MTBFMTBFMean time between failuresh
MTTRMTTRMean time to repairh

Source: IEEE 493 / MIL-HDBK-217

In short

System availability A = MTBF / (MTBF + MTTR) and annual downtime hours - the baseline uptime metric for critical marine equipment.

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