In today’s market issues, competitions between industries are highly inevitable. Strategic planning must really be considered and one of these is by improving the reliability of the products. It was also known that burn-in process has a great impact towards having this kind of plan. Previous researches focused mainly on minimizing the manufacturing cost in the determination of burn-in period. In this paper, the researchers determined the burn-in period required to achieve reliability level at which the customer will be satisfied. Moreover, the study focused on the product failure time using the Weibull distribution. In doing this, the methodology was designed by analyzing the properties of the functions of reliability. Conditional reliability was used to know the time T0 which indicates as burn-in time that will best fit into the reliability target. The researchers incorporated the Weibull distribution to this computation to specify the kind of behavior of the failure rates. Moreover, numerical examples were also used to prove how this process works in a certain scenario.
Keywords
Reliability, reliability target, burn-in period, weibull distribution