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If we're not careful with or ignore failure modes, we can choose the wrong reliability model or statistical distribution. If our product performance is close to the required limits and/or we need a very accurate model, this could be a big problem.

We talk about the importance of failure modes and step-through a tensile-test example to explore these other topics:

competing failure modes
suspensions
independent vs. dependent
reliability block diagrams

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How to Handle Competing Failure Modes