Life Data Analysis

Fit 13 distributions to censored life data and rank them automatically.

  • 13 distribution fitters: Weibull (2P/3P), Exponential (1P/2P), Normal, Lognormal (2P/3P), Gamma (2P/3P), Loglogistic (2P/3P), Beta, Gumbel
  • MLE, RRX and RRY fitting methods with censored (suspended) data support
  • Fit_Everything ranks all distributions by AICc, BIC or Anderson–Darling
  • Weibull mixture, competing risks, DSZI and grouped models — all with parameter confidence intervals
  • Kaplan–Meier and Nelson–Aalen estimators, stress-strength interference, and a quick R/F/f/h calculator
  • Compare Folios: likelihood-ratio tests, overlaid confidence contours, folio-vs-folio interference
Life Data Analysis in Perdura

Accelerated Life Testing (ALT)

Project use-level life from stress tests across 24 ALT model classes.

  • 24 ALT fitter classes — 6 life-stress models × 4 base distributions
  • Arrhenius, Eyring, Power (IPL), Dual-Exponential, Power-Exponential and Dual-Power models
  • Fit_Everything_ALT ranking, plus delta-method confidence intervals on extrapolated B50 life
  • Consolidated Test Planner (non-parametric Method 1, parametric Weibull 2A/2B) and OC curves
  • Acceleration-factor calculator and interactive life-stress plots

Failure Rate Prediction

Part-stress reliability prediction per MIL-HDBK-217F Notice 2.

  • Part-stress analysis across every MIL-HDBK-217F category — microcircuits, semiconductors, passives, connectors and more
  • All 14 environments, quality levels and π-factor breakdowns, with overridable factors
  • ANSI/VITA 51.1 supplement for COTS quality adjustment
  • CustomPart and GenericPart for user or field-data failure models
  • SystemFailureRate rollup: λ (FPMH), MTBF, mission R(t), nestable System Blocks and a contribution pie chart

System Reliability (RBD)

Drag-and-drop reliability block diagrams with importance measures.

  • Drag-and-drop canvas with Series, Parallel, K-of-N and Network (path-set) configurations
  • Nested block builder and automatic layout
  • System reliability computation and minimal path sets
  • Birnbaum, Criticality, RAW and RRW importance measures
System Reliability (RBD) in Perdura

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

Build fault trees and compute minimal cut sets with MOCUS.

  • Drag-and-drop gates: AND, OR, VOTE (k-of-n), PAND, XOR, NOT and Transfer
  • Top-event probability computation
  • MOCUS minimal cut sets — clickable to highlight on the diagram
  • Birnbaum, Fussell–Vesely, RAW and RRW importance measures
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) in Perdura

Reliability Growth & Repairable Systems

Crow-AMSAA and Duane growth tracking with trend tests.

  • Crow-AMSAA (NHPP power law) with MLE estimation and the Duane graphical method
  • Growth rate, cumulative and instantaneous MTBF, Cramér–von Mises goodness of fit
  • Failure- and time-terminated test support
  • Repairable-system tools: ROCOF/Laplace trend test and mean cumulative function (MCF)

Maintenance Planning & Availability

Optimize PM policies, availability, spares and lifecycle cost.

  • Inherent, achieved and operational availability with downtime-breakdown visualization
  • Poisson spare-parts provisioning and lognormal repair-time rollup (Mct, Mmax)
  • Age vs. block preventive-replacement comparison with optimal interval and cost per unit time
  • MFOP / service-interval targeting with sawtooth reliability curves
  • Cost forecasting and a tornado sensitivity chart for operational availability

Human Reliability Analysis (HRA)

Nine HRA techniques from THERP and HEART to an extended CREAM engine.

  • Quantitative calculators: THERP, HEART, SPAR-H, CREAM basic and SLIM-MAUD
  • Structured worksheets: ATHEANA, SHERPA, MERMOS and JHEDI
  • Extended CREAM engine with cognitive-activity steps and control-mode chart
  • Overview tab comparing the latest HEP across all methods

Reliability Allocation

Apportion a system reliability/MTBF target across subsystems.

  • Top-down apportionment across series subsystems
  • Equal, ARINC, AGREE and Feasibility-of-effort methods
  • One-click BOM and failure-rate import from the prediction folio
  • Allocated-reliability bar chart and meets-target badge

Markov Models (State-Space)

Continuous-time Markov chains for repairable systems.

  • CTMC modeling of repairable systems as states and transition rates
  • Steady-state availability, MTBF, MTTF, mean up time and MTTR
  • Time-dependent state-probability evolution
  • Transition rates linkable from fitted Life Data distributions

Physics of Failure

Ten mechanistic models from Basquin fatigue to electromigration.

  • S-N (Basquin), Ramberg–Osgood, Larson–Miller creep and Miner’s rule
  • LEFM fracture mechanics with Paris-law crack growth
  • Coffin–Manson strain-life and Norris–Landzberg solder fatigue
  • Black’s equation, Peck’s model and Arrhenius acceleration

Warranty Data Analysis

Nevada-chart warranty data to distribution fits and return forecasts.

  • Editable Nevada-chart shipment/return matrix
  • Conversion to life data (failures + right-censored)
  • Distribution fitting and conditional-CDF return forecasting
  • Forecast table and bar chart

Degradation Analysis

Extrapolate degradation paths to a failure threshold.

  • Non-destructive repeated-measure path extrapolation to a failure threshold
  • Destructive location-parameter-vs-time MLE

Statistical Modeling

Descriptive stats, regression/ML and hypothesis tests over one dataset.

  • Descriptive statistics with run/box/violin/raincloud plots, scatter-matrix and correlation heatmaps
  • Regression & ML: linear, polynomial, ridge, lasso, elastic-net, logistic, trees/ensembles, SVM, KNN and neural nets
  • Residual diagnostics, plain-English interpretation, single-point prediction and batch CSV scoring
  • t-tests, ANOVA (incl. mixed & repeated-measures), chi-square and non-parametric tests
  • Stale-results indicator prompts a re-run when the underlying data changes

Six Sigma Toolkit

Capability, Gage R&R, SPC, DOE and predictive analytics.

  • Process capability: Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk with ISO 22514-4 non-normal percentile method and Box-Cox suggestion
  • MSA / Gage R&R measurement-system analysis
  • SPC control charts: I-MR, Xbar-R/S, p, np, c, u with Western Electric rules
  • Design of Experiments: effects, %contribution, Lenth’s margin, Pareto, half-normal and interaction plots
  • Predictive analytics: decision tree, random forest, gradient boosting, SVM, KNN, AdaBoost, neural net and CHAID
Six Sigma Toolkit in Perdura

Reliability Demonstration, Probability Plotting & Stress-Strength

Focused calculators that round out the suite.

  • Reliability Demonstration Testing: binomial sample size, parametric Weibull planning and OC curves
  • Probability plotting: linearized plots for every distribution with rank-adjusted censoring
  • Stress-strength interference by numerical integration over any two distributions

Ready to try it?

Install locally in a few commands, or read the full documentation.