Abstract
Burn-in is a method used to eliminate the initial failures in field use. In this paper, we will consider an information-based burn-in procedure for repairable items, which is completely new type of burn-in procedure. By this procedure, based on the operational (failure and repair) history of the items observed during burn-in procedure, those with poor reliability performance are eliminated. From a probabilistic point of view, this burn-in procedure utilizes the information contained in the ‘random paths’ of the corresponding point processes. A general formulation of the model will be suggested, and under the suggested framework, two-stage optimization procedure for determining optimal burn-in procedures will be studied in detail.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 511-525 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jul 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords
- Burn-in
- heterogeneous population
- minimal repair
- operational history
- repairable item