AUTOMATIC WEIBULL RELIABILITY PREDICTION AND CLASSIFICATION

摘要

A computing system and method for classifying a reliability distribution model for a part derived from empirical reliability data for the part includes a module for converting the reliability distribution model and the empirical reliability data into a plurality of data points in a matrix. The matrix is inputted to a machine-learned pattern recognition algorithm trained to assign the matrix to one of a predetermined plurality of classes. The machine-learned algorithm assigns the matrix to one of a predetermined plurality of classes according to an assessment, by the machine-learned pattern recognition algorithm, of the statistical fit between the reliability distribution model and the empirical reliability data on which the reliability distribution model was based.