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Reliability demonstration is often mandatory for industries that need to prove the quality of their production. In a reliability objective at the global system level, the basic use of standards such as MIL-HDBK-781 or IEC-60300 for reliability demonstration of each sub-system must be adjusted. Practitioners often have to fix high-level reliability goals (around 0.999) on each sub-system to guarantee that system reliability exceeds 0.8. Moreover, the confidence obtained for an overall reliability drops down to non-admissible values because of the multiplicity of testing procedures. We propose an approach, from k accelerated tests, to determine an optimized test time whilst ensuring that the reliability of a component system is greater than a goal value and by avoiding the too conservative method consisting in multiplying the confidence levels.
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Gerville-Réache, L., Couallier, V. (2010). An Approach to System Reliability Demonstration Based on Accelerated Test Results on Components. In: Nikulin, M., Limnios, N., Balakrishnan, N., Kahle, W., Huber-Carol, C. (eds) Advances in Degradation Modeling. Statistics for Industry and Technology. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4924-1_20
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