In message <[email protected]>, dated Tue, 
15 Jun 2010, Brian O'Connell <[email protected]> writes:

>The 'big issue' on which I would like to hear your opinion is if any of 
>the reliability models were able to actually indicate relative 
>lifetimes and/or failure rates of systems or components for a defined 
>environment.

We are in many areas getting to the point where reliability is in 
general so good that they can't. Once single-instance random defects 
predominate in the causes of failure, statistical control methods can no 
longer work.
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