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Posts in Reliability
MTBF / MTTF – The Great Divider 

There’s perhaps no other metric in reliability engineering that divides practitioners more than Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and Mean Time To Failure (MTTF). While there is a technical difference—MTBF applies to repairable items and MTTF to non-repairable ones—let’s keep it simple and use MTBF to refer to both for the sake of readability. 

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