Reliability Toolkit

FIT Rate & HTOL Confidence Calculator

Translate HTOL exposure into use-equivalent device-hours and a confidence-bounded failure-rate estimate.

Engineering inputs

Supported range: 1 to 1e+07. Whole numbers only.

Use actual total device-hours divided by N, accounting for any early failures. Supported range: 1e-06 to 1e+07.

Supported range: 0 to 100. Whole numbers only.

Equivalent use-hours per test-hour, for the same mechanism. Supported range: 1e-06 to 1e+09.

Supported range: 50 to 99.999.

Results

Your calculation

Enter the inputs and select Calculate.

Model notes

Poisson events, a constant use-condition failure rate, actual accumulated device-hours including early failure times, independent units, and a justified acceleration factor. Zero failures does not prove zero FIT.

Further reading

Book References

Practical Reliability Engineering

Patrick D. T. O'Connor and Andre V. Kleyner

5th Edition. Wiley, 2012.

ISBN 9780470979822

Book details