Automotive component reliability: Should it be measured in time or mileage?

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 601-603

  Krivtsov, Vasiliy ^a   Frankstein, Michael ^a  

^a FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Hazard function; Mileage accumulation distribution; Warranty data

Indexed keywords

CENSORING; HAZARD FUNCTIONS; MILEAGE ACCUMULATION DISTRIBUTION; WARRANTY DATA;

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; DATA REDUCTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34250175128     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2006.1677439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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