Sale reliability of products

Author

Jiang, R.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Automotive & Mech. Eng., Changsha Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Changsha, China

fYear

2011

fDate

12-15 June 2011

Firstpage

1162

Lastpage

1168

Abstract

There are four notions of reliability in the literature. They are design reliability, inherent reliability, sale reliability and field reliability. This paper develops a model to link the sale reliability to the inherent reliability. Transportation and storage affects the product reliability in a way that the product is equivalently subjected to a step-stress test with the failure being non-self-announced. An equivalent use time (EUT) is introduced to represent the effect of transportation and storage on the reliability. A statistical approach is developed to relate EUT to the parameters of transportation and storage. The engineering and managerial implications of the sale reliability model are discussed.

Keywords

reliability; storage; transportation; design reliability; equivalent use time; field reliability; inherent reliability; product reliability; sale reliability; step-stress test; storage effect; transportation effect; Approximation methods; Marketing and sales; Reliability engineering; Stress; Transportation; Weibull distribution; Inherent reliability; equivalent use time; sale reliability; transportation and storage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reliability, Maintainability and Safety (ICRMS), 2011 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guiyang

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-667-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICRMS.2011.5979453

Filename

5979453