thumb|Burn-in periods correspond to the early portion of the bathtub curve, where early failures decrease over time thumb|Power supply unit from a 1980s [[Hewlett-Packard workstation computer, with burn-in checkpoint from the factory marked in the sticker at center]] Burn-in is the process by which components of a system are exercised before being placed in service (and often, before the system being completely assembled from those components). This testing process will force certain failures to occur under supervised conditions so an understanding of load capacity of the product can be establ
thumb|Burn-in periods correspond to the early portion of the bathtub curve, where early failures decrease over time thumb|Power supply unit from a 1980s [[Hewlett-Packard workstation computer, with burn-in checkpoint from the factory marked in the sticker at center]] Burn-in is the process by which components of a system are exercised before being placed in service (and often, before the system being completely assembled from those components). This testing process will force certain failures to occur under supervised conditions so an understanding of load capacity of the product can be established.
The intention is to detect those particular components that would fail as a result of the initial, high-failure rate portion of the bathtub curve of component reliability. If the burn-in period is made sufficiently long (and, perhaps, artificially stressful), the system can then be trusted to be mostly free of further early failures once the burn-in process is complete.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).