A framework for predicting the remaining useful life of a single unit under time-varying operating conditions

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 964-980

  Liao, Haitao ^a   Tian, Zhigang ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Accelerated degradation testing; Bayesian updating; remaining useful life

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED DEGRADATION TESTING; BAYESIAN UPDATING; CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; PREDICTION CAPABILITY; QUANTILE REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; REMAINING USEFUL LIFE PREDICTIONS; REMAINING USEFUL LIVES;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CONDITION MONITORING; HEALTH CARE; STATISTICAL TESTS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84878682978     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2012.705451     Document Type: Article

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