Modelling component reliability using warranty data

Accelerated testing is often used to gauge the reliability of a product before it is released to the market. Warranty data provide valuable additional information about the reliability of a product and its constituent components via field data. In this study, warranty data provided by an Australian...

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Main Author: Summit, Raymond
Other Authors: Mark Ian Nelson
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Cambridge University Press 2012
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Online Access:http://journal.austms.org.au/ojs/index.php/ANZIAMJ/article/view/5115
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49353
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description Accelerated testing is often used to gauge the reliability of a product before it is released to the market. Warranty data provide valuable additional information about the reliability of a product and its constituent components via field data. In this study, warranty data provided by an Australian automobile manufacturer is used. This article considers the need to clean the data before commencing any analysis. It discusses the distribution of warranty claims and the use of warranty data to model the reliability of elemental components of an automobile. Various model options are considered before suitable modelling is adopted. The reality of modelling the reliability of a vehicle containing a large number of components is considered and a suitable method is adopted. Verification of the reliability modelling is made by comparing an estimated warranty cost with the actual cost.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-493532023-02-07T08:01:23Z Modelling component reliability using warranty data Summit, Raymond Mark Ian Nelson Anthony John Roberts Mary Coupland Tara Julia Hamilton Harvinder Singh Sidhu automotive data reliability modelling warranty costing Accelerated testing is often used to gauge the reliability of a product before it is released to the market. Warranty data provide valuable additional information about the reliability of a product and its constituent components via field data. In this study, warranty data provided by an Australian automobile manufacturer is used. This article considers the need to clean the data before commencing any analysis. It discusses the distribution of warranty claims and the use of warranty data to model the reliability of elemental components of an automobile. Various model options are considered before suitable modelling is adopted. The reality of modelling the reliability of a vehicle containing a large number of components is considered and a suitable method is adopted. Verification of the reliability modelling is made by comparing an estimated warranty cost with the actual cost. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49353 http://journal.austms.org.au/ojs/index.php/ANZIAMJ/article/view/5115 Cambridge University Press restricted
spellingShingle automotive data
reliability modelling
warranty costing
Summit, Raymond
Modelling component reliability using warranty data
title Modelling component reliability using warranty data
title_full Modelling component reliability using warranty data
title_fullStr Modelling component reliability using warranty data
title_full_unstemmed Modelling component reliability using warranty data
title_short Modelling component reliability using warranty data
title_sort modelling component reliability using warranty data
topic automotive data
reliability modelling
warranty costing
url http://journal.austms.org.au/ojs/index.php/ANZIAMJ/article/view/5115
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49353