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Failure Rate

The failure rate is the frequency with which an engineered system or component fails. The closely related Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) is more commonly used for high quality components or systems.

Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) is closely tied to a failure rate. In special cases, the likelihood of failure remains constant over time. Ignoring the time to recover from failure, failure rate is simply the inverse of the MTBF. MTBF is an important specification parameter in all aspects of high importance engineering design. This area includes naval architecture, aerospace engineering, and automotive design. In short, any task where failure in a key part or of the whole of a system needs to be minimized and severely curtailed, particularly where lives might be lost if such factors are not taken into account.

The failure rate accounts for a number of safety and maintenance practices in engineering, industry practices, and government regulations such as how often certain inspections and overhauls are required.

Failure rates and their projective manifestations are important factors in insurance, business, and regulation practices. They are also part of a fundamental to the design of safe systems throughout a national or international economy.

Failure rates are calculated because nothing produced can ever be expected to be 100% perfect. There will always be something that is not quite perfect. Companies try to keep the failure rate as low as possible. This is because they do not want to pay to replace defective items and don't want people getting hurt from a product that does not function as well as it should.

When Medtronic first recalled their SprintFidelis leads, it was not because they failed but because they failed at a higher rate than is considered safe.

Contact a Medtronic Lawyer

If you have been injured by failed Medtronic Sprint Fidelis leads, there may be legal options available to you. Contact the Medtronic lawsuit attorneys of Williams Kherkher at 800-761-3187 to discuss these options.