Operational Readiness


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Operational Readiness

 

one of the important concepts of reliability in technology; the probability that an article (motor, machine, or instrument) will be ready for work at an arbitrarily chosen moment in the intervals between periods of planned technical servicing. For established conditions of operation, the operational readiness is given by the equation

where T is mean cycles between failures and Tr is the mean time required for restoring the item to working order after a failure.

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