MEB4333 Asset Reliability, Availability & Maintainability Sep 2024
Assignment Semester
Individual Assignment 2 Due date:
18/10/2024
1) As a reliability engineer, you are tasked to study the failure distribution of pump bearing.
Failure data from 10 bearings is shown in Table below. You want to test whether the
failure data follows Weibull 2p or Exponential distribution.
Bearing No. Observation time (days) Remarks
1 590 Failure
2 1120 Failure
3 300 Failure
4 600 Failure
5 1290 Failure
6 210 Failure
7 900 Failure
8 860 Failure
9 440 Failure
10 350 Failure
a) Using probability plot graphs, plot the data for Weibull and Exponential (use
dedicated probability plot graph). Attach the plots (Weibull and Exponential) as part
of your submission.
b) Based on the plots, estimate parameters for both distributions.
c) Based on the plots, determine B30 of bearing for both distributions.
d) Which is the best distribution to fit the data? Justify.
[13 marks]
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