As described in
Reliability Allocation, allocation is used to translate the reliability goal of a system into reliability goals for its subsystems, assemblies, and more, down to the part level. The
Allocation pane for an assembly appears only if Allocated is selected for Failure rate type in the
Calculation Data pane for the assembly. The form that is shown in the
Allocation pane is controlled by
Allocation method, which appears under
Prediction in the
System file properties. The default is
Base, Non-normalized. For more information, see
Prediction System File Properties.
Descriptions of the data collected for the various allocation methods appear in the following topics: