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Clive Dev
February 20th, 2002, 07:29 AM
The probability of the equipment meeting the performance requirments of the spec throughout the operational lifetime shall not exceed 6.4 fits. I would appreciate it if anyone could epxlain "6.4 fits" further.

Anonymous
February 20th, 2002, 04:51 PM
Failures per thousand -- or 0.64 failures per hundred or 99.36% Reliability

RS Support
February 23rd, 2002, 10:36 AM
Failure rates are measured in failures per unit time, i.e. failures per hour, million hours or billion hours. The latter measure is also referred to as FITS (Failures In Time).