  The Meantime to Failure is a statistic used to determine how much time a
system spends to enter one of its absorption states. This statistic can be used
in most areas of knowledge. In engineering, for example, can be used as a
measure of equipment reliability, and in business, as a measure of processes
performance. This work presents a method to obtain the Meantime to Failure from
a Continuous Time Markov Chain models. The method is intuitive and is simpler
to be implemented, since, it consists of solving a system of linear equations.

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