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Probability: the likelihood of mission success

  Intended function: for example, to light, cut, rotate, or heat
  Satisfactory: perform according to a specification, with an acceptable degree of compliance
  Specific period of time: minutes, days, months, or number of cycles
  Specified conditions: for example, temperature, speed, or pressure

Quality is a much broader aspect than Reliability. Quality covers almost everything from
organisation, managements, service, procedures, people, product, product-life etc. In simple
words, Reliability is only a subset of quality, the others being performance, consistency,
efficiency, user experience etc. Whereas, Quality is the measure of conformance to laid down
product specification. 

AVAILABILITY (A):

Availability is the unit of time the machine is available to run divided by the total possible
available time. This metric does not include any performance numbers relative to how the
machine runs while it is running.

AVAILABILITY = Operating Time / Planned Production Time

This is different than another common metric called Utilization. Availability only includes the time
the machine was scheduled, planned, or assigned to run.

Utilization can include all hours of the day regardless of schedule. Utilization is more effective in
capacity planning and analyzing the absorption of fixed costs. Availability looks at the machine
itself and focuses more on variable cost absorption.

Operating time = Planned Production Time - Planned Downtime

Planned downtime includes lunch breaks, meetings, and any other regularly scheduled breaks
that are independent of the machine.