Journal: Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Found 699 papers in total
Six Sigma applied throughout the lifecycle of an automated decision system
2005,
Automated decision-making systems have been deployed in many industrial, commercial,...
A Six Sigma approach to predicting corporate defaults
2005,
The progression of a corporation from a status of financial stability into the status...
Circuit design optimization based on quality cost estimation
2005,
The variations in component parameter values embodied in an electronic circuit can...
A modeling approach to maintenance decisions using statistical quality control and optimization
2005,
Maintenance concerns impact systems in every industry and effective maintenance...
Reliability-based optimal maintenance scheduling by considering maintenance effect to reduce cost
2005,
A new reliability-based optimal maintenance scheduling method is presented that...
The economic design of −x charts: A proactive approach
2005,
It has long been recognized that poor quality can only result in higher costs. Yet,...
An empirical Bayes process monitoring technique for polytomous data
2005,
When a product item is tested, usually one has more information than just pass or...
The effect of correlation on chain sampling plans
2005,
The Dodge chain sampling plan (ChSP-1) and its extensions are very useful in...
Six Sigma in a Dutch hospital: does it work in the nursing department?
2004,
The Red Cross Hospital is a medium-sized general hospital with 385 beds, located in...
Non-parametric predictive inference for age replacement with a renewal argument
2004,
We consider an age replacement problem with cost function based on the renewal reward...
Assessing the impact of preventive maintenance based on censored data
2004,
Recent work in the field of competing risks enables us to start an assessment of the...
Neural network selection mechanism for binary decision diagram construction
2004,
the binary decision diagram (BDD) methodology is the latest approach used to improve...
Conditional lifetime data analysis using the limited expected value function
2004,
Much failure, and other event, data are commonly highly censored. Consequently this...
Robust parameter design: a review
2004,
Parameter design is an engineering methodology intended as a cost-effective approach...
Robust design methodology: status in the Swedish manufacturing industry
2003,
While robust design methodology is a fairly common subject in the literature on...
Bayesian analysis and prediction of failures in underground trains
2003,
Based upon failure data (date and odometer reading) in the early operating time, a...
Simulation models for robust design using location depth methods
2003,
For the cost-effective production of integrated circuits, one important aspect is the...
Integration of sequential process adjustment and process monitoring techniques
2003,
Detecting abnormal disturbances and correcting them through adjustment are essential...
Visually mining off-line data for quality improvement
2003,
Highly automated modern manufacturing processes are yielding large databases with...
Implementing evaluation of the measurement process in an automotive manufacturer: A case study
2003,
Reducing process variability is presently an area of much interest in manufacturing...
Reinventing warranty at Hewlett-Packard: An engineering approach to warranty
2003,
The mechanisms used to understand and reduce warranty costs often focus exclusively on...
On the performance quality of repairable systems
2003,
The quality of a system operation is characterized by decreases in time deterministic...
Genetic algorithm optimization of a firewater deluge system
2003,
Safety systems are designed to operate when certain conditions occur and to act to...
Robustness properties of multivariate exponentially-weighted moving average control charts
2003,
In this paper, the robustness of the multivariate exponentially-weighted moving...
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