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Stochastic Models for Environmental Stress Screening

In: Stochastic Modeling for Reliability

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  • Maxim Finkelstein

    (University of the Free State
    Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

  • Ji Hwan Cha

    (Ewha Womans University)

Abstract

There are different ways of improving reliability characteristics of manufactured items. The most common methodology adopted in industry is burn-in, which is a method of ‘elimination’ of initial failures (infant mortality). As was mentioned previously, the ‘sufficient condition’ for employing the traditional burn-in is the initially decreasing failure rate. For example, when a population of items is heterogeneous, and therefore consists of subpopulations with ordered failure (hazard) rates, it obviously contains weaker (with larger failure rates) subpopulations. As the weakest populations are dying out first, the failure rate of this population is often initially decreasing and burn-in can be effectively applied.

Suggested Citation

  • Maxim Finkelstein & Ji Hwan Cha, 2013. "Stochastic Models for Environmental Stress Screening," Springer Series in Reliability Engineering, in: Stochastic Modeling for Reliability, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 363-384, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ssrchp:978-1-4471-5028-2_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-5028-2_10
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