Trend testing in reliability engineering
International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management
ISSN: 0265-671X
Article publication date: 1 March 1996
Abstract
Considers trend testing in the context of reliability/survival applications. Suggests that the very common tendency in reliability testing to fit lifetime distributions to reliability/maintenance data might occasionally be invalid. Details the appropriate methods to assess the validity, or otherwise, of such a procedure. More specifically, discusses ROCOF curves and the Laplace test for trend, and demonstrates their use by means of a practical, reliability example.
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Citation
Bohoris, G.A. (1996), "Trend testing in reliability engineering", International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Vol. 13 No. 2, pp. 45-54. https://doi.org/10.1108/02656719610110005
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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