Paper Info
Title
Product failure pattern analysis from warranty data using association rule and Weibull regression analysis: A case study.
Abstract
The warranty data plays a crucial role in the improvement of the manufactured product. Association rule analysis is an efficient methodology for eliciting useful information from warranty data by defining the relationships between production data and failure data within warranty period. We extract association rules from warranty data of heavy duty diesel engine in order to find significant patterns of failures along with manufacturing information. We also used Weibull regression to identify influential factors that affect the variation in mean time between failures which are identified from extracted association rules. The results from the empirical study for manufacturing firm “D” provide information as to the areas in which improvements should be made. Moreover, the result for specific failure is able to suggest a solution to overcome short-sighted improvement representatively. This study expects to contribute quality improvement to manufacturing industry which is under coarse warranty data with enormous unrevealed information to draw meaningful information with ease.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.ress.2014.08.015
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Sequential association rule,Weibull regression,Warranty data,Failure sequence,Mean time between failures
Journal
133
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0951-8320
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeasu Jeon100.34
So Young Sohn220.72