Economic Reliability Test Plans Based on Rayleigh Distribution

Abstract

Sampling plans in which items are put to test, to collect the life of the items in order to decide upon accepting or rejecting a submitted lot, are called Reliability Test Plans. The basic probability model of the life of the product is specified as the wellknown Rayleigh Distribution. For a given Producer‟s Risk sample size, termination number, the waiting time to terminate the test plan and the operating characteristics are presented. The preferability of the test plan over similar plans existing in the literature with respect to cost and time of the experiment with a numerical example and comparison with Gamma (2) is established.