As product development cycles become shorter, and companies demand more rapid achievement of reliability goals, it is becoming more and more important to use quantitative Accelerated Life Tests (ALT) to predict and improve reliability. Today there is an abundance of methods to plan and analyze accelerated tests, but there are also many pitfalls. This paper identifies some major problems and con...

Accelerated life testing (ALT) is typically used to assess the reliability of material's lifetime under desired stress levels. Recent advances in material engineering have made a variety alternatives readily available. To identify most reliable setting with efficient experimental design, sequential test planning strategy preferred. guarantee tractable statistical mechanism for information colle...

manufacturers need to evaluate the reliability of their products in order to increase the customer satisfaction. proper analysis of reliability also requires an effective study of the failure process of a product, especially its failure time. so, the failure process modeling (fpm) plays a key role in the reliability analysis of the system that has been less focused on. this paper introduces a f...