Taotao Cheng, Diqing Fan, Xintian Liu, JinGang Wang
{"title":"Reliability analysis for manufacturing system of drive shaft based on dynamic Bayesian network","authors":"Taotao Cheng, Diqing Fan, Xintian Liu, JinGang Wang","doi":"10.1002/qre.3644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3644","url":null,"abstract":"Accurately analyzing the reliability of driveshaft systems is crucial in engineering vehicles and mechanical equipment. A complex system reliability modeling and analysis method based on a dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) is proposed to repair accurately and reduce the cost in time. Considering the logical structure of the drive shaft system, the reliability block diagram (RBD) of the manufacturing system is constructed in a hierarchical and graded manner, and a method of obtaining the Bayesian network (BN) directly from the RBD is adopted based on the conversion relationship between the RBD, fault tree and BN. A variable‐structure DBN model of the system is constructed based on a static BN extended in time series and incorporating dynamic reliability parameters of the components. Reliability analyses based on DBN reasoning, including reliability assessment, significance metrics, and sensitivity analyses, were performed to identify critical subsystems and critical components. This research contributes to enhancing product reliability, equipment utilization, and improving economic efficiency.","PeriodicalId":56088,"journal":{"name":"Quality and Reliability Engineering International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New CUSUM and EWMA charts with simple post signal diagnostics for two‐parameter exponential distribution","authors":"Waqas Munir, Abdul Haq","doi":"10.1002/qre.3636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3636","url":null,"abstract":"The two‐parameter exponential distribution (TPED) is often used to model time‐between‐events data. In this paper, we propose CUmulative SUM and exponentially weighted moving average charts for simultaneously monitoring the parameters (location and scale) of the TPED. A key feature of the proposed charts is their straightforward post‐signal diagnostics. Monte Carlo simulations are used to estimate the zero‐state and steady‐state average run‐length (ARL) profiles of the proposed charts. The ARL performances of existing and proposed charts are assessed in terms of expected weighted run‐length and relative mean index. It is found that the proposed charts outperform the existing charts. A real dataset is used to illustrate the implementation of the proposed charts.","PeriodicalId":56088,"journal":{"name":"Quality and Reliability Engineering International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mustafa M. Hasaballah, Y. Tashkandy, O. S. Balogun, M. E. Bakr
{"title":"Bayesian inference for two populations of Lomax distribution under joint progressive Type‐II censoring schemes with engineering applications","authors":"Mustafa M. Hasaballah, Y. Tashkandy, O. S. Balogun, M. E. Bakr","doi":"10.1002/qre.3633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3633","url":null,"abstract":"The joint progressive Type‐II censoring scheme is an advantageous cost‐saving strategy. In this paper, investigated classical and Bayesian methodologies for estimating the combined parameters of two distinct Lomax distributions employing the joint progressive Type‐II censoring scheme. Maximum likelihood estimators have been derived, and asymptotic confidence intervals are presented. Bayesian estimates and their corresponding credible intervals are calculated, incorporating both symmetry and asymmetry loss functions through the utilization of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method. The simulation aspect has employed the MCMC approximation method. Furthermore, discussed the practical application of these methods, providing illustration through the analysis of a real dataset.","PeriodicalId":56088,"journal":{"name":"Quality and Reliability Engineering International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141921095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surveillance of high‐yield processes using deep learning models","authors":"Musaddiq Ibrahim, Chunxia Zhang, Tahir Mahmood","doi":"10.1002/qre.3635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3635","url":null,"abstract":"Quality testing and monitoring advancements have allowed modern production processes to achieve extremely low failure rates, especially in the era of Industry 4.0. Such processes are known as high‐yield processes, and their data set consists of an excess number of zeros. Count models such as Poisson, Negative Binomial (NB), and Conway‐Maxwell‐Poisson (COM‐Poisson) are usually considered good candidates to model such data, but the excess zeros are larger than the number of zeros, which these models fit inherently. Hence, the zero‐inflated version of these count models provides better fitness of high‐quality data. Usually, linearly/non‐linearly related variables are also associated with failure rate data; hence, regression models based on zero‐inflated count models are used for model fitting. This study is designed to propose deep learning (DL) based control charts when the failure rate variables follow the zero‐inflated COM‐Poisson (ZICOM‐Poisson) distribution because DL models can detect complicated non‐linear patterns and relationships in data. Further, the proposed methods are compared with existing control charts based on neural networks, principal component analysis designed based on Poisson, NB, and zero‐inflated Poisson (ZIP) and non‐linear principal component analysis designed based on Poisson, NB, and ZIP. Using run length properties, the simulation study evaluates monitoring approaches, and a flight delay application illustrates the implementation of the research. The findings revealed that the proposed methods have outperformed all existing control charts.","PeriodicalId":56088,"journal":{"name":"Quality and Reliability Engineering International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141926020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gear fault diagnosis based on small channel convolutional neural network under multiscale fusion attention mechanism","authors":"Xuejiao Du, Bowen Liu, Jingbo Gai, Yulin Zhang, Xiangfeng Shi, Hailong Tian","doi":"10.1002/qre.3631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3631","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the insufficient feature learning ability and the bloated network structure, the gear fault diagnosis methods based on traditional deep neural networks always suffer from poor diagnosis accuracy and low diagnosis efficiency. Therefore, a small channel convolutional neural network under the multiscale fusion attention mechanism (MSFAM‐SCCNN) is proposed in this paper. First, a small channel convolutional neural network (SCCNN) model is constructed based on the framework of the traditional AlexNet model in order to lightweight the network structure and improve the learning efficiency. Then, a novel multiscale fusion attention mechanism (MSFAM) is embedded into the SCCNN model, which utilizes multiscale striped convolutional windows to extract key features from three dimensions, including temporal, spatial, and channel‐wise, resulting in more precise feature mining. Finally, the performance of the MSFAM‐ SCCNN model is verified using the vibration data of tooth‐broken gears obtained by a self‐designed experimental bench of an ammunition supply and delivery system.","PeriodicalId":56088,"journal":{"name":"Quality and Reliability Engineering International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141940727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing qualification via the use of diagnostics and prognostics techniques","authors":"Abhishek Ram, Diganta Das","doi":"10.1002/qre.3634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3634","url":null,"abstract":"Qualification is a process that demonstrates whether a product meets or exceeds specified requirements. Testing and data analysis performed within a qualification procedure should verify that products satisfy those requirements, including reliability requirements. Most of the electronics industry qualifies products using procedures dictated within qualification standards. A review of common qualification standards reveals that those standards do not consider customer requirements or the product physics‐of‐failure in that intended application. As a result, qualification, as represented in the reviewed qualification standards, would not meet our definition of qualification for reliability assessment. This paper introduces the application of diagnostics and prognostics techniques to analyze real‐time data trends while conducting qualification tests. Diagnostics techniques identify anomalous behavior exhibited by the product, and prognostics techniques forecast how the product will behave during the remainder of the qualification test and how the product would have behaved if the test continued. As a result, combining diagnostics and prognostics techniques can enable the prediction of the remaining time‐to‐failure for the product undergoing qualification. Several ancillary benefits related to an improved testing strategy, parts selection and management, and support of a prognostics and health management system in operation also arise from applying prognostics and diagnostics techniques to qualification.","PeriodicalId":56088,"journal":{"name":"Quality and Reliability Engineering International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141940728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A hybrid reliability assessment method based on health index construction and reliability modeling for rolling bearing","authors":"Yuan‐Jian Yang, Chengyuan Ma, Gui‐Hua Liu, Hao Lu, Le Dai, Jia‐Lun Wan, Junyu Guo","doi":"10.1002/qre.3630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3630","url":null,"abstract":"The assessment of rolling bearing reliability is vital for ensuring mechanical operational safety and minimizing maintenance costs. Due to the difficulty in obtaining data on the performance degradation and failure time of rolling bearings, traditional methods for reliability assessment are challenged. This paper introduces a novel hybrid method for the reliability assessment of rolling bearings, combining the convolutional neural network (CNN)‐convolutional block attention module (CBAM)‐ bidirectional long short‐term memory (BiLSTM) network with the Wiener process. The approach comprises three distinct stages: Initially, it involves acquiring two‐dimensional time‐frequency representations of bearings at various operational phases using Continuous Wavelet Transform. Subsequently, the CNN‐CBAM‐BiLSTM network is employed to establish health index (HI) for the bearings and to facilitate the extraction of deep features, serving as input for the Wiener process. The final stage applies the Wiener process to evaluate the bearings’ reliability, characterizing the HI and quantifying uncertainties. The experiment is performed on bearing degradation data and the results indicate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed hybrid method.","PeriodicalId":56088,"journal":{"name":"Quality and Reliability Engineering International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141940731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advancing software reliability with time series insights: A non‐autoregressive ANN approach","authors":"Shiv Kumar Sharma, Rohit Kumar Rana","doi":"10.1002/qre.3632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3632","url":null,"abstract":"Software reliability is a critical factor in assessing the health of software and identifying defects. Software reliability growth models (SRGM) are used to estimate the occurrence of software faults. There are various parameterized and non‐parameterized models of SRGM. These models effectively predict fault occurrence for limited testing conditions. To resolve this problem various neural and artificial neural network (ANN) models are proposed. A problem while using ANN is over‐fitting and under‐fitting. Non‐autoregressive time series models, including ANN variants, offer promising solutions to address under‐fitting issues in SRGM, providing enhanced predictive capabilities for fault occurrence across diverse testing conditions. This study proposes a modified version with a Bayesian regularization technique to address over‐fitting. This modification aims to enhance the suitability of the Bayesian regularization framework for nonlinear autoregressive (NAR) models by carefully adjusting regularization parameters. Comprehensive testing with real‐world software failure datasets is conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The results demonstrate that our modified approach improved generalization capabilities and increased prediction accuracy. The NAR‐ANN model exhibits a lower mean squared error of 0.12935 and a higher value of 0.99853.","PeriodicalId":56088,"journal":{"name":"Quality and Reliability Engineering International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141882349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vaibhav N. Dhameliya, Raj Kamal Maurya, Ritwik Bhattacharya
{"title":"Implementation of compound optimal design in progressive first‐failure censored data","authors":"Vaibhav N. Dhameliya, Raj Kamal Maurya, Ritwik Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1002/qre.3628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3628","url":null,"abstract":"In many research studies, multiple objectives need to be considered simultaneously to ensure an effective and efficient investigation. A compound optimal design provides a viable solution to this problem, allowing for the maximization of overall benefits through the integration of several factors. The paper addresses the application of compound optimal designs in the context of progressive first‐failure censoring, with a particular focus on the Generalized Exponential distribution with two parameters. The paper provides an illustrative example of compound designs by considering the cost function along with trace, variance, and determinant of inverse Fisher information. The best design is determined using a graphical solution technique that is both comprehensible and precise. Using a simple example, we demonstrate the advantage of compound optimal designs over constraint optimal designs. Furthermore, the paper examines real‐world data collection to demonstrate the practical utility of compound optimal designs.","PeriodicalId":56088,"journal":{"name":"Quality and Reliability Engineering International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141871266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tianxing Wang, Yan‐Feng Li, Hong‐Zhong Huang, Song Bai
{"title":"A weakest link theory‐based probabilistic fatigue life prediction method for the turbine disc considering the influence of the number of critical sections","authors":"Tianxing Wang, Yan‐Feng Li, Hong‐Zhong Huang, Song Bai","doi":"10.1002/qre.3629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3629","url":null,"abstract":"This study utilizes the rank correlation coefficient to examine the multi‐site failure correlation of turbine discs. Drawing from the stress‐strength interference model, reliability models both with and without factoring in the multi‐site failure correlation are constructed. Furthermore, the weakest link theory (WLT) within the context of the Weibull distribution function is invoked to develop a model for predicting the fatigue life of turbine discs, taking into account the quantity of critical sections. The variability in the low cycle fatigue (LCF) of turbine discs is scrutinized, leading to the formulation of a probabilistic fatigue life prediction method for these discs. When comparing theoretical values with experimental ones, it becomes evident that factoring in the multi‐site failure correlation significantly enhances the accuracy of turbine disc life predictions.","PeriodicalId":56088,"journal":{"name":"Quality and Reliability Engineering International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141871263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}