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Life Data Analysis with Zero-Time (Out-Of-The-Box)
Failures
In many circumstances, it is possible for failures to occur
immediately at the beginning of the life of the product. These
failures are sometimes referred to as out-of-the-box or
short-term failures and might be attributed to problems in
manufacturing, insufficient quality control and pre-shipping
inspection, poor packaging or shipping damages. The failure
times for such units are zero. Zero values can also be found in
a variety of other data set types, such as
level crossings
in customer usage measurement programs (measurement of a number of
events) or time in band (measurement of time spent in a
given state). This article examines the effect of the
zero values on data analysis and presents a warranty data
analysis example containing out-of-the-box failures data using
Weibull++ 7. To read
more, see
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue83/hottopics83.htm
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Reliability Basics |
Analyzing Growth Success/Failure and
Reliability Data Using the Lloyd Lipow Model
This continues the series of articles, initiated with the
Reliability Basics article in Issue 81 of Reliability
HotWire, discussing success/failure data in the context of
developmental testing reliability growth analysis. In this
month's article, we continue the discussion by highlighting the
Lloyd Lipow model, available in
RGA 6, and show its application
to model success/failure data as well as data sets that consist
of reliability values at different times or stages.
To read more, see
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue83/relbasics83.htm
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Hot News |
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Additional Track Added to 2008 ARS, North America
- ReliaSoft received so many excellent presenter
submissions this year that we needed to add a third
track to ARS, North America! The full presentation
program, which consists of 39 results-oriented
presentations and 6 expert tutorials, is posted on the
Web now. The
2008 International Applied Reliability Symposium, North
America will be held June 18 - 20, 2008
in Reno, Nevada. More information about the event
can be found at
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Recent publications and presentations by ReliaSoft's Dr.
Huairui (Harry) Guo - ReliaSoft Corporation
is proud to recognize the following accomplishments:
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Publication
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2007 IEEE
International Conference on Industrial
Engineering and Engineering Management |
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Article Title: |
D-Optimal
Reliability Test Design for Two-Stress
Accelerated Life Tests |
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Author(s): |
Huairui Guo
and Rong Pan |
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For more
information, please see:
www.ieem2007.org/doc/IEEM%20Program.pdf
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Publication
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Journal of the
IEST |
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Article Title: |
Accelerated
Life Test Modeling of Outdoor Optical
Products with Time-Varying Multi-Stresses |
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Author(s): |
Chung Lam and
Huairui Guo |
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For more
information, please see:
www.iest.org
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Publication
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2007 INFORMS
Annual Conference |
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Article Title: |
Optimal Design
of Reliability Tests for Multiple Stresses |
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Author(s): |
Rong Pan and
Huairui Guo |
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For more
information, please see:
http://meetings.informs.org/Seattle07/images/Program%20pdfs/No%20Rooms%20(S).pdf
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54th Annual Reliability &
Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) -
ReliaSoft Corporation will be a participant and
presenter at RAMS again this winter. The
event will be held at the Palace Station Hotel &
Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on January
28-31, 2008. This year's Symposium theme: "Dawn to
Dusk - Life Cycle Prescriptions." RAMS
participants are exposed to a wide variety of papers,
tutorials, and panel discussions that share the insight
of industry and government leaders. Our staff of
reliability experts will be on hand to provide
information and demonstrate the capabilities of
ReliaSoft's complete suite of tools, including our
Web-based XFRACAS application. We always look
forward to seeing our old friends and making new ones;
please be sure to stop by our booth! For more
information and an advanced program, see
http://www.rams.org. |
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Free Reliability Engineering Resources - Who
said nothing in life is free? ReliaSoft provides the
reliability engineering community with the most
comprehensive set of reliability-related information
available at one site on the Internet. Items that can be
found in the volumes of data in the
www.weibull.com library include utilities, research
papers, example files, templates and other related
materials. While youre there, dont forget to check the
link to the discussion board (www.reliability-discussion.com),
where you can benefit from suggestions about solving
both simple and complex problems. |
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Upcoming Public
Training Event Calendar |
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January 2008 |
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January 24 - 25, 2008:
RS 401(C) Life Data
Analysis (Condensed)
in
Bangalore, India |
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February 2008 |
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February 4 - 8, 2008:
MSMT Foundations
in
Frankfurt, Germany |
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February 20 - 22, 2008:
RS 560 Introduction to
Design for Reliability
in
Tucson, Arizona |
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February 25 - 29, 2008:
MSMT Foundations
in
Tucson, Arizona |
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March 2008 |
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March 10 - 14, 2008:
MSMT Foundations
in
Singapore |
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March 17 - 19, 2008:
RS 522 Advanced System
Analysis
in
Tucson, Arizona |
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March 20 - 21, 2008:
RS 470 FMEA/FMECA
in
Tucson, Arizona |
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March 26 - 28, 2008:
International Applied
Reliability Symposium
in
Frankfurt, Germany |
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March 31 - April 2, 2008:
RS 521 Advanced QALT
in
Frankfurt, Germany |
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