Abernethy, Breneman, Medlin, and Reinman give failure and running times for 2256 bleed systems operating at several geographically separated bases. They observed a change in the probability plot before and after 600 of operation. Further examination showed that 9 of the 19 failures occurred at Base 'D'. Separate analyses of the Base D data and the data from the other bases indicated different life distributions. The large slope for Base D indicated strong wearout behavior. The relatively small slope for the other bases suggested infant mortality or accidental failures. After investigation it was determined that the early-failure problem at base D was caused by salt air (Base D was near the ocean). A change in maintenance procedures there solved the dominant bleed system reliability problem.
A data.frame
with 60 rows and 4 variables:
[, 1] | hours | Accumulated time at event | Numeric |
[, 2] | event | Event observed at hours (failure/right-censored/left-censored/interval-censored) | Categoric |
[, 3] | count | Number of events observed at hours | Numeric |
[, 4] | base | Base where observation was made | Categoric |
Abernethy, R. B., Breneman, J. E., Medlin, C. H., and Reinman, G. L., (1983) Weibull Analysis Handbook, Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories Technical Report AFWAL-TR-83-2079
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