Failure Failure mode Failure modes, effects, and diagnostic analysis Force of mortality Frequency of exceedance Reliability engineering Reliability theory Reliability theory of aging and longevity Survival analysis Weibull distribution References Further reading Federal Standard 1037C U.S. Department of Defense, (1991) Military Handbook, “Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment, MIL-HDBK-217F, 2 External links Bathtub curve issues , ASQC Fault Tolerant Computing in Industrial Automation by Hubert Kirrmann, ABB Research Center, Switzerland Actuarial science Engineering failures Reliability engineering Survival analysis Maintenance Statistical ratios Error measures Rates