Optimal Burn-in Strategy for High Reliable Products Using Convolutional Neural Network

Burn-in test is widely used to improve the product reliability from the customer's perspective by identifying and screening out defective individuals before they are marketed. For those high reliable products whose failures are caused by gradual degradation, burn-in test not only could pick out weak units, but also increases the degradation of normal units, and hence the test duration is regarded as one key factor in the test policy optimization. In this paper, a new burn-in framework is proposed, which combines a sliding window strategy with one-dimensional convolutional neural network, completes the off-line training for classification model, and then obtains the optimal burn-in time with a group-accuracy strategy. And an online optimization algorithm is constructed to reduce the burn-in time as much as possible without deteriorating the screening effect, thereby to reduce the unnecessary lifetime loss of normal units involved in the test. The effectiveness of the presented framework is validated by the experiment. Compared to conventional strategies based on degradation models, the proposed method has better performance and robustness.