A more widely used hybrid model of support vector regression (SVR) and autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) based on Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) is proposed for failure time series prediction by taking advantage of the SVR model to forecast the nonlinear part of failure time series and the ARIMA model to predict the linear basic part. It firstly uses EEMD to decompose the original failure sequence into several significant fluctuation components and a trend

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... and then it utilizes SVR and ARIMA to forecast them separately. The performance of the presented model is measured against other unitary models such as Holt-Winters, autoregressive integrated moving average, multiple linear regression, and group method of data handling of seven published nonlinear non-stationary failure datasets. The comparison results indicate that the proposed model outperforms other techniques and can be utilized as a promising tool for failure data forecast applications.