Reliability meets big data: opportunities and challenges

WQ Meeker, Y Hong - Quality engineering, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Reliability field data such as that obtained from warranty claims and maintenance records
have been used traditionally for such purposes as generating predictions for warranty costs …

Stochastic modelling and analysis of degradation for highly reliable products

ZS Ye, M **e - Applied Stochastic Models in Business and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Degradation models have become an important analytic tool for complex systems. During
the last two decades, a number of degradation models have been developed to capture the …

A Wiener process model with dynamic covariate for degradation modeling and remaining useful life prediction

S Zhang, Q Zhai, X Shi, X Liu - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most industrial products degrade with usage. To capture degradation patterns and schedule
condition-based maintenance actions, it is necessary to model the degradation process and …

Copula-based reliability analysis of degrading systems with dependent failures

G Fang, R Pan, Y Hong - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2020 - Elsevier
Consider a coherent system, in which the degradation processes of its performance
characteristics are positively correlated, this paper systematically investigates a bivariate …

Degradation modeling and RUL prediction with Wiener process considering measurable and unobservable external impacts

S Zhang, Q Zhai, Y Li - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Degradation of products in field depends heavily on the external operating environment. The
external factors, such as temperature and working load, are often time-varying or stochastic …

Statistical degradation modeling and prognostics of multiple sensor signals via data fusion: A composite health index approach

C Song, K Liu - IISE Transactions, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Nowadays multiple sensors are widely used to simultaneously monitor the degradation
status of a unit. Because those sensor signals are often correlated and measure different …

Reliability modeling and analysis of load-sharing systems with continuously degrading components

X Zhao, B Liu, Y Liu - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a reliability modeling and analysis framework for load-sharing systems
with identical components subject to continuous degradation. It is assumed that the …

Big data and reliability applications: The complexity dimension

Y Hong, M Zhang, WQ Meeker - Journal of Quality Technology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Big data features not only large volumes of data but also data with complicated structures.
Complexity imposes unique challenges on big data analytics. Meeker and Hong (2014; …

General path models for degradation data with multiple characteristics and covariates

L Lu, B Wang, Y Hong, Z Ye - Technometrics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Degradation data have been broadly used for assessing product and system reliability. Most
existing work focuses on modeling and analysis of degradation data with a single …

Quantification of environmental effects on PV module degradation: A physics-based data-driven modeling method

AB Subramaniyan, R Pan, J Kuitche… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper explains the fusion of the physics-based material degradation mechanism with
the statistics-based data modeling approach for predicting the degradation rate of …