“…Improper use of these PCI‐based sampling methods might lead to misjudgments in applications. According to Epstein and Sobel,
15 Meyer, 16 Anderson et al., 17 Keller et al., 18 Abd and Hassanein,
19 Chakrabarty et al.,
20 Johnen et al.,
21 Lee et al.,
22 and Limon et al.,
23 the lifetime of parts and products usually follows an exponential distribution, gamma distribution, or Weibull distribution. Because the lifetime of a product is a longer‐the‐better type of quality characteristic, Montgomery 24 recommended the use of lifetime performance index (LPI)
to measure the lifetime performance of electronic products.…”