Early detection of warranty issues: A multi-disciplinary literature survey

This paper provides an open-source literature survey on the emerging science of early detection of warranty and reliability issues - a topic that is becoming critical to product life management for the automotive, aerospace and energy industries. The authors have conducted an open-source literature survey from a variety of disciplines like reliability engineering, operations research, prognostic-health management, systems engineering, biostatistics, public health and epidemiology. These are areas that have seen significant recent research activity in the development of early warning systems and algorithms. This paper provides an overview of current and promising techniques with a focus on their underlying statistical theory and related system architecture issues.