Reliability Growth Analysis

Reliability growth analysis is the process of collecting, modeling, analyzing and interpreting data from the reliability growth development test program (development testing). In addition, reliability growth analysis can be done for data collected from the field (fielded systems). Fielded systems also includes the ability to analyze data of complex repairable systems. Depending on the metric(s) of interest and the data collection method, different models can be utilized (or developed) to analyze the growth processes. As an example of such a model development, consider the simple case presented in the next section, A Simple Reliability Growth Model.