Associate Failure Distribution Information

If an existing Reliability Distribution or Reliability Growth Analysis contains failure distribution information for the piece of equipment that you are analyzing in a Spares Analysis, you can associate that Failure Distribution information with the Spare Application.

This topic describes how to associate Failure Distribution information with a Spare Application. You can also create a new Failure Distribution.

Steps

Access the Spare Application for which you want to create a new Failure Distribution.
Select the Failure Distributions tab.

The list of Failure Distributions associated with the selected Spare Application appears.
In the upper-right corner of the grid, select Add From Analysis.

The Search window appears.
Specify the search criteria that will return the Reliability Distribution or Reliability Growth Analysis containing the Failure Distribution information that you want to associate, and then select .

The search results appear in the grid below the search criteria.
Select the analysis with the failure distribution information that you want to associate with the Spares record, and then select OK.

The failure distribution information from the selected analysis appears in the Failure Distributions section.

Note: If you select a row containing an analysis that uses the unit of measure Quarters, an error message appears, indicating that the unit of measure Quarters is not supported in Spares Analysis, and the Failure Distribution information for that Analysis is not added to the Failure Distributions section.

Results

After you associate the Failure Distribution information, you cannot modify the Failure Distribution information in the Failure Distributions section. You can, however, refresh the distribution to retrieve the latest data.