Burn-in policies for products having dormant states

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 278-285

  Wu, Shaomin ^a   Clements Croome, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burn in; Cost; Failure pattern; Reliability; Warranty policy

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTALLATION; RELIABILITY THEORY;

BURN-IN; FAILURE PATTERN; WARRANTY POLICY;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 33750351392     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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