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- Title
Profile optimum planning for degradation analysis.
- Authors
Peng, Chien‐Yu; Cheng, Ya‐Shan
- Abstract
Degradation tests are widely used to assess the lifetime information of highly reliable products. Before conducting a degradation test, the fundamental issues in regard to decision variables are to determine how many sample sizes are needed, how long samples need to be tested, and how many measurements are taken, particularly in early experiments with limited budgets. By minimizing the approximate variance of the estimated qth quantile of the product's lifetime distribution with a cost constraint, profile optimum planning (POP) is proposed to provide a systematic solution to these decision variables under mild conditions. Based on the derived theoretical results, the use of flow charts efficiently simplifies complex optimization problems in practical applications. In addition, sensitivity analysis is studied to elucidate the effect of how the uncertainty in POP can be divided and allocated to the experimental costs and model parameters. Technical derivations, flow charts, and analysis results are available online as Supporting Information.
- Subjects
FLOW charts; DISTRIBUTION costs; COST allocation; SENSITIVITY analysis; SAMPLE size (Statistics)
- Publication
Naval Research Logistics, 2021, Vol 68, Issue 7, p951
- ISSN
0894-069X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/nav.21979