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Activity Number: 77
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 1, 2010 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences
Abstract - #309057
Title: Flexible Distribution Modeling and Efficient Test Effort Allocation in Inkjet Pen Development
Author(s): Robert O'Donnell*+
Companies: Hewlett-Packard
Address: 1000 NE Circle Blvd, Corvallis, OR, 97330,
Keywords: Gamma-Poisson ; Monte-Carlo ; Reliability ; Test ; Allocation
Abstract:

Inkjet pen development generates a wide range of data which at times do not lend themselves to convenient distribution models (e.g. normal, binomial, Poisson). Mixture distributions like the Gamma-Poisson are shown to provide valuable flexibility to the data analysis process.

Budgeting for reliability testing in product development can involve making test effort allocation tradeoffs among different tests. A process incorporating historical reliability information, Monte Carlo simulation, cost-to-test data, and cost-to-fix data is developed to quantify these decisions.


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