Incorporating product retirement in field performance reliability analysis

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ke, Zhao ^a   Steffey, Duane ^a   Loud, John ^a  

^a EXPONENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Product retirement; Sales volume; Time to failure distribution; Warranty claims; Weibull

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TOOL; AT-RISK POPULATION; CELL PHONE; FAILURE RISK; FASTER RATES; FIELD PERFORMANCE; IN-FIELD PERFORMANCE; PARAMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; PRODUCT RETIREMENT; RETIRED UNITS; SALES VOLUME; TIME TO FAILURE; TIME-SERIES DATA; TRADITIONAL PRODUCTS; WEIBULL; WEIBULL PROBABILITY;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAINTAINABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; SALES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TIME SERIES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 77952786480     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2010.5448014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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