A reliability engineer wants to investigate electrical current leakage between transistors in an electronic device. When current leakage reaches a certain threshold value, the electronic device fails. To accelerate failures for testing, the devices were tested under much higher than normal temperatures. Devices were inspected for failure every two days.
The engineer performs an accelerated life test to estimate the time until failure for the device under normal operating conditions (55° C) and worst-case operating conditions (85° C). The engineer wants to determine the B5 life, which is the estimated amount of time until 5% of the devices are expected to fail.
Based on the results in the table of percentiles, the engineer can conclude the following:
The probability plot based on the fitted model can help you determine whether the distribution, transformation, and assumption of equal shape (Weibull) at each level of the accelerating variable are appropriate. For these data, the points follow an approximate straight line. Therefore, assumptions of the model are appropriate for the accelerating variable levels.
Censoring Information | Count |
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Right censored value | 95 |
Interval censored value | 58 |
Standard Error | 95.0% Normal CI | |||||
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Predictor | Coef | Z | P | Lower | Upper | |
Intercept | -17.0990 | 4.13633 | -4.13 | 0.000 | -25.2061 | -8.99195 |
Temp | 0.755405 | 0.157076 | 4.81 | 0.000 | 0.447542 | 1.06327 |
Shape | 0.996225 | 0.136187 | 0.762071 | 1.30232 |
Standard Error | 95.0% Normal CI | ||||
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Percent | Temp | Percentile | Lower | Upper | |
5 | 55 | 759.882 | 928.717 | 69.2500 | 8338.21 |
5 | 85 | 81.0926 | 63.2317 | 17.5897 | 373.855 |