|
Current new
product development procedures required Reliability Test as mandatory to
evaluate new product proper to their releases. There are no simple
engineering equations that describe the failure of a Transport
Refrigeration System, sub-systems or components. The proper
determination of the reliability plans crucial because an erroneous test
plan can be costly and misleading. The main failure modes may be first
established and the life test developed based upon the failure modes.
The purpose of an accelerated life test is to demonstrate a minimum life
in a simulated customer environment. The ALT results in the real world
depend upon the applied stresses and should be well behaved when the
test conditions are not excessive or unusual. Simple reliability models
may be employed to extrapolate the ALT to other customer conditions.
|
