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Development of Reliability Demonstration Test for Personal Blood Glucose Meters  

Kim, Gi-Young (Korea Testing Laboratory)
Park, Ho-Joon (Korea Testing Laboratory)
Park, Chan-Soo (Korea Testing Laboratory)
Ham, Jung-Keol (Korea Testing Laboratory)
Jang, Joong Soon (Department of Industrial Engineering, Ajou University)
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Journal of Applied Reliability / v.13, no.4, 2013 , pp. 299-307 More about this Journal
Abstract
The value of blood sugar is measured by a personal blood glucose meter which consists of two parts: a glucose strip and a blood glucose meter. A personal blood glucose meter makes use of electric media which are composed of glucose oxidase and electron. This study is to propose a method of reliability demonstration test derived from field data analysis and FMEA(Failure Mode and Effect Analysis). Detailed Conditions for reliability demonstration test are selected from the comparison of various failure mechanisms. The most dominant failure mechanism is wear-out which is caused by strip insertion/extraction. The testing device that can reproduce the failure mechanism of strip insertion/extraction is made to conduct reliability demonstration test. Using the testing device, it is confirmed that target lifetime of selected devices is more than 2 years.
Keywords
field data analysis; personal blood glucose meter; reliability demonstration test; strip insertion/extraction;
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