1.0 INTRODUCTION Reliability verification testing is almost always included as a quality specification for new products. A typical example in the automotive industry is to demonstrate 95% reliability at 100,000 miles with 90% confidence. Obviously, in this case some type of accelerated testing is required. It is infeasible to accumulate 100,000 miles or more on an automobile at a normal rate; t...

Prediction of economic variables is a basic component not only for economic models, but also for many business decisions. But it is difficult to produce accurate predictions in times of economic crises, which cause nonlinear effects in the data. Such evidence appeared in the German automobile industry as a consequence of the financial crisis in 2008/09, which influenced exchange rates and a...

The automobile industry has produced many cars with new features over the past decade. However, the interaction between the driver and the car has not changed significantly. The information being delivered – both in quantity and method – from the car to the driver has not seen the same improvements as there have been “under the hood.” This paper proposes immersing the driver inside an additiona...

In previous years industries faced a major problem in testing their final finished products especially in the field of automobiles; it reduces the efficiency of the vehicles when the parts are not tested efficiently. Yet the selection and rejection of this automobile part for the further implementation in automobiles is needed. To overcome this, industries started using mechanical instruments t...

Introduction Semiconductor memory market has been driven by DRAM. However non-volatile memory market, Flash memory as a representative, is growing remarkably because of its versatile application market such as cellular phone, PC memory card, silicon audio, digital still camera storage, automobile application with MCU and so forth. In terms of testing, it is quite different from DRAM. This will ...

Asymmetric information is an important phenomenon in many markets and in particular in insurance markets. Testing for asymmetric information has become a very important issue in the literature in the last two decades. Almost all testing procedures that are used in empirical studies are parametric, which may yield misleading conclusions in the case of misspecification of either functional or dis...

The main testing parameter of the roller brake tester is the braking force. Actually, there are some differences in results even if the same vehicle is tested on the same tester. So it will bring trouble to evaluate the braking performance accurately. Based on force analysis, the mathematical model of the roller opposite force type automobile brake tester is built in this article. And then the ...