Reliability Assessment of an Electronic System: A Case Study of Nokia N1650 Mobile Phone Charger in Zaria, Nigeria

This paper assesses the reliability of a Nokia N1650 mobile phone charger used in Zaria, Nigeria. The Part Stress Method was employed to assess the reliability of the system. Data on the failure rate of the system components were used, with special considerations given to factors like environment of use, quality of power supply and service personnel. A comparative assessment was made on the system, when operated within the Zaria environment and when operated within the country for which it was designed for (China).The result shows that a lower reliability level is associated with the use of the system in Zaria, Nigeria as compared with the reliability level when in use in the country for which it was designed for. The Mean-Time to Failure of the system which is the time it is expected to function without failure (MTTF) in Nigeria is 1 years as against 10 years in China. The ratio is 10:1 in favour of the designed country. The ratio of the failure rate of the system is also 10:1 in favour of the designed country, meaning it fails ten times faster in Zaria environment as compared to the country for which the system was designed for. These are accounted for by higher variation in the environmental factors such as temperature, poor power quality, and poor maintenance culture in the applied environment.