Through field tracing research for 24 Chinese cutter-changeable CNC ma
chine tools (machining centers) over a period of one year, a database
of operation and maintenance for machining centers was built, the fail
ure data was fitted to the Weibull distribution and the exponential di
stribution, the effectiveness was tested, and the failure distribution
pattern of machining centers was found. Finally, the reliability char
acterizations for machining centers are proposed.