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Burn-in is a quality screening technique used to induce early failures that would be costly if experienced by the customer. As a method to screen out the earlier failures of the products, burn-in testing has been widely used in electronic manufacturing as well as many other areas such as the military and aerospace industries since the 1950s. Burn-in has proven to be a very effective quality control procedure which can improve products’ quality, enhance their reliability for operational life, and bring both profit and goodwill to the manufacturers.
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Liu, X., Mazzuchi, T. (2008). The Optimal Burn-in: State of the Art and New Advances for Cost Function Formulation. In: Pham, H. (eds) Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-113-8_6
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