Abstract
Burn-in is a widely used engineering method of elimination of defective items before they are shipped to customers or put into field operation. In conventional burn-in procedures, components or systems are subject to a period of simulated operation prior to actual usage. Then those which failed during this period are scrapped and discarded. In this paper, we assume that the population of items is composed of two ordered subpopulations and the elimination of weak items by using environmental shocks is considered. Optimal severity levels of these shocks that minimize the defined expected costs are investigated. Some illustrative examples are discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 111-117 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Volume | 206 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Oct 2010 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors would like to thank the editor and referees for their very helpful and careful comments and suggestions. The work of the first author was supported by Priority Research Centers Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology ( 2009-0093827 ). The work of the second author was supported by the NRF (National Research Foundation of South Africa) grant FA2006040700002 .
Keywords
- Burn-in
- Heterogeneous populations
- Optimal severity
- Reliability
- Shocks