Title :
Sale reliability of products
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Automotive & Mech. Eng., Changsha Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Changsha, China
Abstract :
There are four notions of reliability in the literature. They are design reliability, inherent reliability, sale reliability and field reliability. This paper develops a model to link the sale reliability to the inherent reliability. Transportation and storage affects the product reliability in a way that the product is equivalently subjected to a step-stress test with the failure being non-self-announced. An equivalent use time (EUT) is introduced to represent the effect of transportation and storage on the reliability. A statistical approach is developed to relate EUT to the parameters of transportation and storage. The engineering and managerial implications of the sale reliability model are discussed.
Keywords :
reliability; storage; transportation; design reliability; equivalent use time; field reliability; inherent reliability; product reliability; sale reliability; step-stress test; storage effect; transportation effect; Approximation methods; Marketing and sales; Reliability engineering; Stress; Transportation; Weibull distribution; Inherent reliability; equivalent use time; sale reliability; transportation and storage;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability, Maintainability and Safety (ICRMS), 2011 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Guiyang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-667-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICRMS.2011.5979453
