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...

Reliability acceptance sampling plans (RASPs) are used to determine the acceptability of a collection of units (e.g., a lot) with respect to lifetime. Most of the previous works on RASPs assume that life tests are conducted at the use or accelerated conditions. For high-reliability units, however, adopting life tests may easily turn out to be impractical in terms of the sample size and the amou...

An important strategic element in the planning process of a railway operator is the development of a line plan, i.e. a set of routes (paths) on the network of tracks, operated at a given hourly frequency. The models described in the literature have thus far considered only lines that halt at all stations along their route. In this paper we introduce several models for solving line planning prob...

This article uses empirical likelihood with estimating equations to model and analyze heavy censored accelerated life testing data. This approach flexibly and rigorously incorporates distribution assumptions and regression structures into estimating equations in a nonparametric estimation framework. Real-life examples of using available data to explore the regression functional relationship and...