Exercise 1

A system has three components and requires all three components to be operational 24 hours,
Monday through Friday. Failure of component 1 occurs as follows:

Monday = No failure.
Tuesday = 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.
Wednesday = No failure.
Thursday = 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday = 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Calculate the MTBF and MTTR of component 1.

• MTBF is calculated as: Total uptime/Number of failures Total downtime = 2 hours on Tuesday
+ 4 hours on Thursday + 3 hours on Friday = 9hours Total uptime = (5*24) – 9 = 111 hours So,
MTBF = 111 / 3 = 37 hours • MTTR is calculated as: Total downtime/Number of failures Total
downtime = 2 hours on Tuesday + 4 hours on Thursday + 3 hours on Friday So, MTTR = (9
hours/3) = 3 hours

Solution
The formula for MTBF is

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Therefore,

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The formula for MTTR is

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Therefore,

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So,

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A system has three components and requires all three to be operational from 8 am to 5 pm,
Monday to Friday. Failure of component 2 occurs as follows:
Monday = 8 am to 11 am
Tuesday = No failure
Wednesday = 4 pm to 7 pm
Thursday = 5 pm to 8 pm
Friday = 1 pm to 2 pm
Calculate the availability of component 2.

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