Journal: Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Found 699 papers in total
A Procedure for Predicting and Controlling the Ship Fuel Consumption: Its Implementation and Test
2015,
In light of the International Maritime Organization guidelines, the new Regulation of...
Lean Six Sigma Implementation in a Food Processing SME: A Case Study
2015,
Lean manufacturing has been acknowledged as a methodology to eliminate waste, while...
Practical Principles in Appointment Scheduling
2015,
Appointment schedules aim at achieving a proper balance between the conflicting...
Occupational Health and Safety Within the Scope of Risk Analysis with Fuzzy Proportional Risk Assessment Technique (Fuzzy Prat)
2015,
The increase in industrialization necessitates risk analysis with a legal obligation...
On the Practical Interest of Discrete Inverse Pólya and Weibull-1 Models in Industrial Reliability Studies
2015,
Engineers often cope with the problem of assessing the lifetime of industrial...
Optimization of ADC Channels of A Smart Energy Meter Including Random Noise Effects
2015,
This paper proposes a multiresponse process optimization through mixed response...
Adaptive Phase II Nonparametric EWMA Control Chart with Variable Sampling Interval
2015,
In this paper, we provide an adaptive Phase II nonparametric exponentially weighed...
On Phase II SPC in Cases When Normality is Invalid
2015,
Conventional statistical process control (SPC) charts require the normality assumption...
Nonparametric Changepoint Estimation for Sequential Nonlinear Profile Monitoring
2015,
We consider changepoint detection in a process in which the observed points are...
A Distribution-Free Multivariate Control Chart for Phase I Applications
2015,
The purpose of this paper is to provide a novel distribution‐free control chart...
A Nonparametric Phase I Control Chart for Individual Observations Based on Empirical Likelihood Ratio
2015,
One common challenge in nonmanufacturing control chart applications is that many of...
A Comparison Study of Distribution-Free Multivariate SPC Methods for Multimode Data
2015,
The data‐rich environments of industrial applications lead to large amounts of...
One-sided Control Charts Based on Precedence and Weighted Precedence Statistics
2015,
In this paper, we study one‐sided control charts based on precedence...
An Extended Nonparametric Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Sign Control Chart
2015,
Traditional control charts are established on the assumption that the observations of...
Distribution-free Phase II CUSUM Control Chart for Joint Monitoring of Location and Scale
2015,
A single distribution‐free (nonparametric) Shewhart‐type chart on the...
Multivariate Process Capability Vector Based on One-Sided Model
2015,
To evaluate the capability of manufacturing processes in satisfying the customer's...
An Effective Double Sampling Scheme for the c Control Chart
2015,
In the present paper is developed a statistical process control inspection procedure...
The Design of the Variable Sampling Interval Generalized Likelihood Ratio Chart for Monitoring the Process Mean
2015,
This paper considers the problem of monitoring a normally distributed process variable...
Identification and Assessment of Factors Influencing Human Reliability in Maintenance Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
2015,
Human element forms an inevitable part of maintenance activity and gets affected by a...
An Integrative Loss Function Approach to Multi-Response Optimization
2015,
Loss function approach is effective for multi‐response optimization. However,...
An Improved Maximum Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Chart for Monitoring Process Mean and Variability
2015,
Maximum exponentially weighted moving average (MaxEWMA) control charts have gained...
TOPAAS: An Alternative Approach to Software Reliability Quantification
2015,
In the realm of safety related systems, a growing number of functions are realized by...
A Note on the Multivariate Process Capability Index MCpm
2015,
Important features of multivariate process capability indices are comparability,...
The Negative Binomial Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Chart with Estimated Control Limits
2015,
The control chart based on the compound Poisson distribution (the negative binomial...
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