Reliability Analysis of Hospital Facilities (A Case of Medical School) : Part 1-Qualitative Tendencies and The Weibull Analysis Results for Failure Characteristics

Abstract

The facilities of a hospital are required to have a variety of special functions. These include around-the-clock service that fully integrates treatment, research, training and living accommodation facilities. Moreover hospitals must also have a carefully controlled and comfortable environment. It is necessary to balance all these requirements and to ensure the most suitable controlled administration. Although one of the present authors has collected field data over many years related to this subject and has released research reports on the amount of energy consumed, there are few statistical analyser case studies on the reliability analysis of hospital facilities. Also, since the facilities mentioned above have not been studied as an integrated system, the interrelationship between the facilities, as parts of a whole system, is still unclear. The present study seeks to clarify qualitative tendencies and characteristics about the reliability and maintainability of hospital facilities. The Weibull analysis has been employed for quantitative consideration.