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- Title
THE RELIABILITY GROWTH MYTH OR MESS.
- Authors
Wong, Kam L.
- Abstract
The article discusses mathematical research. There are many mathematical models to describe reliability growth in equipment. Probably all of the mathematical models are good under certain restrictions. There is continuous reliability improvement in electronic parts with respect to calendar time. In an experiment, a comparison was made of two sets of satellites of the same design. The earlier ones were built with parts that had very long 100 per cent burn-in, in the order of 2000 hours, and the later ones were built with parts with about one-half of the original burn-in time. It was found that the satellites with the shorter burn-in time had higher reliability.
- Subjects
MATHEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL statistics; MATHEMATICAL models; ELECTRONICS; MACHINE theory; SYSTEM analysis
- Publication
Quality & Reliability Engineering International, 1987, Vol 3, Issue 4, p217
- ISSN
0748-8017
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/qre.4680030403