Abstract
The object of this paper is to obtain some characteristics of reliability of the refrigerated container on a container ship. The research in this field has been so little that the reliability of the refrigerated container has not been identified. In this paper, we analyse the field data which have been gathered from the failure reports of the refrigerated container on board over ten years, and then investigate the characteristics of reliability and maintainability using the field data. Particularly, in the case of data analysis, we use a Weibull distribution which has taken a very important role in reliability analysis, and utilizing the Weibull probability paper, we get estimates of the characteristic values of reliability, that is, MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), failure rate and so on. It is shown that these results are very useful in the field of maintenance and management of the refrigerated container.
