Reliability Analysis and Prediction with Warranty Data: Issues, Strategies, and Methods (Hardcover)

NEED FOR ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION WITH WARRANTY DATA AND ISSUES INVOLVED Reliability Studies with Warranty Data: Need and Issues Continuous Improvement and Field Data Three Levels of Decision Making With Warranty Data The Role of Hazard Function in Reliability and Robustness Improvements Warranty Data: Not Always Perfect for Statistical Analysis Existing Research Work and Certain Limitations The Scope and Objective of the Book Warranty Concepts Organization of the Book Bibliographic Notes Characterization of Warranty Data Life Cycle of a Vehicle An Overview of the Warranty Claim Process Automobile Warranty Data: Key Characteristics Two Inherent Characteristics of Warranty Data: Uncleanliness and Incompleteness Summary STRATEGIES AND METHODS FOR RELIABILITY ANALYSIS WITH WARRANTY DATA Strategies for Reliability Analysis from Warranty Data From Customer Concerns to Root Causes Strategies for Hazard Function Estimation Summary Hard Failures with Known Mileage Accumulation Rates Risk Set Adjustment in Hazard Function Modeling of Mileage Accumulation Rate in the Vehicle Population A Four-Step Methodology An Application Example Summary Hard Failures with Unknown Mileage Accumulation Rates Hazard Function with Modification in Numerator Modeling Mileage on Failed Vehicles Using Truncated Normal Distribution A Five-Step Methodology An Application Example Summary Bibliographic Notes Soft Failures with Known Mileage Accumulation Rates Introduction Risk Set Adjustment: MIS as Life Variable Risk Set Adjustment: Mileage as Life Variable Incorporating Censoring Information in the Hazard Function Estimation A Six-Step Methodology An Application Example Summary Bibliographic Notes Soft Failures with Unknown Mileage Accumulation Rates Hazard Function Estimation from Doubly Truncated Data Sets Incorporating Censoring Information in the Hazard Function Estimation A Seven-Step Methodology An Application Example Summary WARRANTY PREDICTION Assessingthe Impact of New Time/Mileage Warranty Limits Changes in the Warranty Coverage The Estimation of Number of Warranty Claims Cost of Warranty Claims Summary Bibliographic Notes Forecasting of Automobile Warranty Performance Warranty Growth or Maturing Data Phenomena Current Warranty Forecasting Methods Warranty Performance Forecasting Using RBF Neural Networks Forecasting Warranty Performance Using MLP Neural Networks Results and Discussions Summary Bibliographic Notes References Index Objectives and Overview sections appear at the beginning of each chapter.