Patent ID: 8504324

Claim:
A computing device for analyzing reliability of an electronic device, the computing device being connected to an output device, the computing device comprising: a storage system; at least one processor; and one or more programs stored the storage system and executable by the least one processor, the one or more programs comprising: a component coding module operable to define a component coding rule for components of the electronic device, and establish a bill of material (BOM) table for the electronic device according to the component coding rule; a data classification module operable to obtain component data of the components from the BOM table, and generate component codes for the components according to the component data, wherein each of the component codes comprises a classification code comprising a family code and a class code, and the data classification module further identifies a component type of each of the components according to the classification codes, and classifies the components into the component types according to the component codes; a failure rate calculation module operable to calculate a failure rate for each of the classified components according to a parameter equation, and calculate a sum of the failure rates of all the components to obtain mean time between failures (MTBF) of the electronic device; and a reporting module operable to generate a reliability analysis report of the electronic device according to the MTBF of the electronic device, and output the reliability analysis report to the output device.