Table 2. Evaluation criteria and ranking system for the occurrence of failure.
Probability of failure | Possible failure rates | Rank |
Extremely high: failure almost inevitable | ≧1 in 2 | 10 |
Very high | 1 in 3 | 9 |
Repeated failures | 1 in 8 | 8 |
High | 1 in 20 | 7 |
Moderately high | 1 in 80 | 6 |
Moderate | 1 in 400 | 5 |
Relatively low | 1 in 2000 | 4 |
Low | 1 in 15,000 | 3 |
Remote | 1 in 150,000 | 2 |
Nearly impossible | ≦1 in 1,500,000 | 1 |