Determination of burn‐in parameters and residual life for highly reliable products

Today, many products are designed and manufactured to function for a long period of time before they fail. Determining product reliability is a great challenge to manufacturers of highly reliable products with only a relatively short period of time available for internal life testing. In particular, it may be difficult to determine optimal burn‐in parameters and characterize the residual life distribution. A promising alternative is to use data on a quality characteristic (QC) whose degradation over time can be related to product failure. Typically, product failure corresponds to the first passage time of the degradation path beyond a critical value. If degradation paths can be modeled properly, one can predict failure time and determine the life distribution without actually observing failures. In this paper, we first use a Wiener process to describe the continuous degradation path of the quality characteristic of the product. A Wiener process allows nonconstant variance and nonzero correlation among data collected at different time points. We propose a decision rule for classifying a unit as normal or weak, and give an economic model for determining the optimal termination time and other parameters of a burn‐in test. Next, we propose a method for assessing the product's lifetime distribution of the passed units. The proposed methodologies are all based only on the product's initial observed degradation data. Finally, an example of an electronic product, namely contact image scanner (CIS), is used to illustrate the proposed procedure. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2003     

A general model of heterogeneous system lifetimes and conditions for system burn‐in

Burn‐in is a technique to enhance reliability by eliminating weak items from a population of items having heterogeneous lifetimes. System burn‐in can improve system reliability, but the conditions for system burn‐in to be performed after component burn‐in remain a little understood mathematical challenge. To derive such conditions, we first introduce a general model of heterogeneous system lifetimes, in which the component burn‐in information and assembly problems are related to the prediction of system burn‐in. Many existing system burn‐in models become special cases and two important results are identified. First, heterogeneous system lifetimes can be understood naturally as a consequence of heterogeneous component lifetimes and heterogeneous assembly quality. Second, system burn‐in is effective if assembly quality variation in the components and connections which are arranged in series is greater than a threshold, where the threshold depends on the system structure and component failure rates. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 50: 364–380, 2003.     

以十六大精神为指导 努力提高人才培养质量

全面建设小康社会需要“造就数以亿计的高素质劳动者、数以千万计的专门人才和一大批拔尖创新人才”。要实现这一宏伟目标 ,就必须全面推进素质教育 ,努力提高人才培养质量 ,这是历史赋予高等教育的重任。武警学院作为公安现役部队的最高学府 ,目前的中心工作是用十六大精神统一思想 ,进一步转变教育观念 ,深化教学改革 ,大力加强师资队伍建设 ,为部队培养高素质人才     

新时期关于部队会计职业道德教育的思考

新的历史时期 ,部队财务工作面临着新形势、新问题 ,部队会计工作在军事经济中的作用不断加强 ,责任也愈加繁重。部队会计职业道德素质直接影响着部队财务工作的质量。目前 ,部队会计职业道德现状不容盲目乐观 ,制定部队会计职业道德准则 ,加强对部队会计的职业道德教育应予以足够重视     

增强党的阶级基础和扩大党的群众基础的哲学思考

增强党的阶级基础和扩大党的群众基础 ,是党的十六大对全党提出的根本要求。应站在哲学的高度 ,从党的阶级基础和群众基础的辩证关系、理论与实践的具体历史统一以及党的历史经验的角度 ,理解它的精神实质。     

谈新时期发扬艰苦奋斗精神

艰苦奋斗精神在全面建设小康社会的新阶段有着丰富的科学内涵。新时期发扬艰苦奋斗精神有着重要的时代意义。当前 ,发扬艰苦奋斗精神必须着力解决好理想信念、创新理念、群众观点、节俭意识、领导带头五个问题。     

“天人合一”思想与坚持可持续发展战略

“天人合一”思想的精华在于比较系统地提出了处理人与自然关系的一系列基本观点 ,值得我们继承和发扬的有“天人一体”的整体观、人与自然和谐观、“尽乎人道 ,合乎天道”的价值观以及“知止”观等。“天人合一”思想中一些过时、错误的观点 ,我们则必须抛弃。     

浅论军事行政法从严原则

军事行政法从严原则应当成为军事行政法的一项基本原则。其基本涵义是军事行政法的制定具有严密性 ,军事行政法的实施具有严格性 ,军事行政法律制裁具有严厉性。该原则是军队质量建设的规律之一 ,是维护国防利益和军事利益的内在要求。军事行政法中的很多具体规定均体现了该原则     

城镇化——破解“三农”难题的关系

当前我国存在的农业、农村和农民问题与城镇化滞后有着密切的关系。解决“三农”问题 ,全面建设小康社会 ,必须统筹城乡经济社会发展 ,积极推进城镇化进程。     

《线性代数》教学与观念更新

《线性代数》是理、工、农、经类各专业的一门重要的基础课,对后续课程起到工具性、奠基性的作用。《线性代数》中许多概念抽象、层次甚高,学生普遍感到难学,教师在教学中要注意指导和帮助学生更新观念,使其加深对抽象概念的理解,以便较好地掌握基础的代数思想和代数方法。