Reference desk

Definitions and formulas that keep engineering conversations aligned.

Quick technical references for reliability, maintenance, availability, life data, planning, and MRO calculations.

Reliability growth

Duane growth formulas

Test time, slope, cumulative, and instantaneous MTBF.

Accelerated testing

Accelerated life testing formulas

Arrhenius, inverse power, temperature-humidity, and thermal-cycle factors.

Maintenance

Maintenance KPI formulas

MTBF, MTTR, backlog, OEE, and ROI.

Availability

Availability definitions

Inherent, operational, and production boundaries.

Life data

Weibull parameters

β, η, reliability, and hazard rate.

MRO

MRO inventory formulas

Lead-time demand, stock, EOQ, and turnover.

Work management

Maintenance planning metrics

Definitions for compliance, work mix, direct labor, and estimates.

Maintenance data

CMMS data quality fields

Definitions for asset records, work-order closeout, codes, and migration evidence.

Fault investigation

Intermittent fault and NFF data fields

Definitions for event evidence, service-history ratios, patterns, and reproduction plans.

MRO forecasting

Intermittent demand methods

ADI, CV², Croston, SBA, TSB, backtesting, censoring, and FVA.

Operating exposure

Operating profile analysis methods

State duration, time at load, threshold excursions, and rate of change.

Definitions are part of the result.

Formula names can look identical while data boundaries differ. Use linked tools and guides to see assumptions before comparing a value across teams or sites.