Impact of quality variations on product reliability

R. Jiang and D.N.P. Murthy

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2009, vol. 94, issue 2, 490-496

Abstract: The reliability of manufactured products can differ from the desired design reliability due to variations in manufacturing quality. Failure data from field provide useful information to assess if the changes in product reliability variations are significant or not and to identify the cause for the variation. In order to devise statistical methods to detect this, one needs to model the effect of quality variations in manufacturing on product reliability. This paper looks at this issue and examines the Weibull case in detail.

Keywords: Product reliability; Manufacturing quality; Detecting quality variations; Weibull distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.05.009

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