• DocumentCode
    2925666
  • Title

    Process-related reliability-growth modeling-how and why

  • Author

    Heimann, David I. ; Clark, W.D.

  • Author_Institution
    Digital Equipment Corp., Tewskbury, MA, USA
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    21-23 Jan 1992
  • Firstpage
    316
  • Lastpage
    321
  • Abstract
    A process-related nonhomogeneous Poisson process (PRNHPP) is developed. This is carried out by replacing the constant scale factor in the NHP by a process-age-dependent scale factor which increases asymptotically over process-age-time to a mature-process scale factor value. The authors describe the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) techniques for obtaining parameter values for the PRNHPP, as well as numerical techniques for solving the MLE equations. Various questions the PRNHPP can address are demonstrated by a sample analysis
  • Keywords
    reliability theory; statistical analysis; PRNHPP; constant scale factor; mature-process scale factor value; maximum likelihood estimation; parameter values; process-age-dependent scale factor; process-related nonhomogeneous Poisson process; reliability-growth modeling; Costs; Customer service; Equations; Failure analysis; Manufacturing processes; Marine vehicles; Maximum likelihood estimation; Predictive models; Time to market; Warranties;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 1992. Proceedings., Annual
  • Conference_Location
    Las Vegas, NV
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-0521-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ARMS.1992.187843
  • Filename
    187843