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Industrial automation · manufacturing · OT — updated 2026-09-23

Mean time between failures (MTBF)

Average operating time between failures of a repairable asset.

MTBF: average operating time between inherent failures of a repairable asset under stated conditions. It is a statistical reliability measure, not a guaranteed service interval and not the same as uptime percentage.

See also: Mean time to repair (MTTR) · Asset performance management (APM) · CMMS

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