Reliability analysis of the vehicle door system EDCU based on Weibull distribution

The paper established a two-parameter Weibull distribution model to analyze the failure law of key components of metro vehicles and employed the least squares method to fit the parameters of the Weibull function. The paper provided a detailed introduction of the model's parameter fitting method based on actual historical failure data. Taking the EDCU (Electrical Door Control Unit) as an example, the failure rate, cumulative failure rate, and reliability of EDCU for 3 different vehicle models were calculated, and the calculation results were verified to conform to the Weibull distribution through Q-Q diagrams. The results show that although the designed service life of EDCU of vehicle door system is 15 years, the reliability of the EDCU decreases significantly around 10 years. The EDCU reliability of the three vehicle models declines by 22%, 4.2%, 10.6% and the failure rates are 2.7%, 0.57%, 1.13%. Based on the reliability of EDCU mentioned above, while ensuring the reliability of components, the maintenance methods of components can be optimized to reduce maintenance costs.