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Where there are frequent failures or safety-relevant field failures a rapid and assured estimation of the associated risk to the company is necessary. To achieve this the failure behaviour is recognised in the first step, ie whether the failures occur initially, randomly or as the result of wearout and ageing. The following determination of the expected failure quantity depends on the failure behaviour present. The newly developed models necessary allow not only the qualitative description of individual failure mechanisms, but also, for the first time, the quantitative calculation of the affected quantity for the various types of failure behaviour. This is especially important for risk assessments and can avoid wrong and consequently costly decisions.
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Pauli, B. Risk assessments — Part 2. ATZ Worldw 103, 29–31 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03226793
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03226793