Entering Reliability Growth Data Sets

You begin Reliability Growth Analysis by entering your Data Set. A single Data Set consists of the the Data Points to be used for the Reliability Growth analysis. You can enter and perform analyses on as many Reliability Growth Data Sets as you would like.

Make sure you're working in the Reliability Growth Data Sets pane by selecting the Reliability Growth checkbox under Weibull in the Sidebar.

Start by adding a new Reliability Growth Data Set. In the Data Sets pane toolbar, click Insert.

The Insert Data Set dialog appears. Enter "My RGA Data Set" for the Name of the new Reliability Growth Data Set. Click the Insert button to add the new Data Set.

At this point, you can configure the Data Points table to match the data you plan to analyze. By default, the Data Points table is set to one column for Failure Time data points. To change the format of the Data Points table, set to appropriate options in the Data Set Properties in the Properties pane on the right. 

By default, the Data Format is set to Exact Times. If you have interval data, select Intervals for the Data Format.

You can then enter your data points directly into the Data Points table.

Also note that on the Data Points table in Relyence Weibull, keyboard support for Insert is supported using the <Insert> key and <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<NumPad +>.

If you have your data in an Excel spreadsheet, you can copy and paste the data into the Data Points table.

You can also import data from an Excel spreadsheet using the Import feature, which makes the process easy. See the Importing and Exporting Weibull Data topic for more details.