Estimating Failures for a Fleet of Vehicles with Different Configurations
August 7th, 2017
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Estimating Failures for a Fleet of Vehicles with Different Configurations
When purchasing a product, it is very common for a customer to have options with regards to what features they get. This is perhaps most evident when purchasing a vehicle. Does the customer buy the base model with very few features, or do they buy a higher-end model that can come with a bigger engine, a turbo, the premium sound system, a sunroof, etc.? As a manufacturer of these vehicles, we are likely interested in not only the reliability/availability of a particular model, but also the overall number of expected failures our maintenance department might see over the warranty period across all vehicles sold in a given time period. In this article, we will discuss a methodology that can be utilized to estimate the average number of failures per vehicle model and also the total number of failures our maintenance team is expected to see. Read more
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