Title :
A New Start-Up Demonstration Test
Author :
Gera, Amos Eliahu
Author_Institution :
Quality Manage. Div., ELTA Syst. Ltd., Ashdod, Israel
fDate :
3/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The commonly known consecutive successes total failures (CSTF) start-up demonstration test procedure is improved to a total successes consecutive successes total failures (TSCSTF) procedure. Accordingly, a unit under test is accepted when either a total number of successful tests, or a specified number of consecutive successes of tests are observed before a total number of failures; otherwise the unit is rejected. The waiting time until termination (the length of the set of tests) of the new procedure is evaluated. A correct choice of parameters (e.g. the number of successes required for acceptance, the total number of failures causing rejection) using the new procedure may yield a shorter waiting time than that of the relevant CSTF procedure.
Keywords :
Markov processes; reliability; consecutive successes total failures; equipment reliability; first order Markov dependent structure; start-up demonstration test; start-up reliability; Consecutive k-out-of-n systems; consecutive successes total failures; runs test; start-up reliability; waiting-time distribution;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.2010.2041975
