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Reliability Testing

The document discusses various types of reliability testing, particularly focusing on environmental stress testing and accelerated life testing. It outlines different methods, objectives, and advantages of these tests, emphasizing the importance of identifying failure modes and quantifying product characteristics. Additionally, it highlights the cost-effectiveness of conducting qualitative tests before quantitative testing to optimize resources.

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Reliability Testing

The document discusses various types of reliability testing, particularly focusing on environmental stress testing and accelerated life testing. It outlines different methods, objectives, and advantages of these tests, emphasizing the importance of identifying failure modes and quantifying product characteristics. Additionally, it highlights the cost-effectiveness of conducting qualitative tests before quantitative testing to optimize resources.

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Reliability Testing

Environmental Stress Testing


Life Test
Types of Life Tests
Life testing with censoring
Time Censored Tests
Failure Censored Test
Life Test without Censoring
Tests Without Replacement
Tests With Replacement
Burn In tests
Life Testing
Exact Field Test
Simulated Life Test
Accelarated life Test
Accelarated Life testing
Example
⚫ A cell phone manufacturer conducts the following
tests to ensure that the product quality is as per the
customer requirements.
⚫ Drop Testing: Dropping the phone from different
heights and also dropping different objects on the
phone’s surface.
⚫ Cold and Hot Temperature: subjecting the phone to
different temperatures and test whether the call quality
is as expected
⚫ Dust exposure: Checking whether the call quality is the
same after being exposed to heavy dust.
⚫ There are two main objectives of any Accelerated Life
Test:
⚫ Identify the Qualitative features i.e.: the failure modes of the
tested object
⚫ Quantify the characteristics: Having identified the failure
modes, the tolerance limits (weakest and strongest limits) of
the object are established.
⚫ Accelerated Life Testing methods could be very costly and
hence, should be carried out with less iterations. It is
advisable to first identify the failure modes with
Qualitative testing, and then proceed to Quantitative
Testing only to those vital failure modes. This way, cost of
testing can be reduced.
Types of Accelerated Life Testing
⚫ There are two types of Accelerated Life Testing
⚫ Usage Rate Acceleration: This method is otherwise
known as Compressed Time Acceleration. As the
name implies, the time taken to failure is advanced, by
prolonged use of the product. All other stress levels are
maintained at normal usage level. For example, a
washing machine is put to use continuously till the time
it fails.
⚫ Over Stress Acceleration: The stress level that
is much higher than normal operating condition is
used. Example: Cell phones chargers being subject to
extremely high voltage supply.
Advantages of Accelerated Life
Testing:
⚫ The below are some of the benefits of Accelerated Life
Testing:
⚫ It enables the user to find the life of a Product or
component. This is useful for marketing a product and
also predict the demand for the product in future
(otherwise the Repurchase volume).
⚫ Constant monitoring of the Accelerated Life Testing
results helps to improve the Design Quality of New
Product Development cycle.
⚫ Knowing the Reliability and MTBF of a product, helps
the user to calculate warranty cost and plan for the
same.
Compressed Time testing
MTTF Estimates
Example
For Censored Data
Example
With Replacement
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