Keyword: quality & reliability

Found 1322 papers in total
Reliability-based optimal maintenance scheduling by considering maintenance effect to reduce cost
2005,
A new reliability-based optimal maintenance scheduling method is presented that...
Capacitated network design considering survivability: an evolutionary approach
2004,
This paper presents an evolutionary approach to design of capacitated networks...
Sequential inspection strategy for multiple systems under availability requirement
2004,
System failures are usually observed during regular maintenance or inspection and this...
6-sigma quality management: defining and analyzing causal relationships 6-sigma drivers – in the manufacturing sector
2004,
The goal of this study is to stress the importance of 6sigma quality management in...
Reliability based design optimization using response surfaces in application to multidisciplinary systems
2004,
Traditionally, reliability based design optimization (RBDO) is formulated as a nested...
Power processes and their application to reliability
2004,
We introduce the stochastic process we call a power process and show that under...
An integrated optimization model for inventory and quality control problems
2004,
In this paper, we develop an integrated economic model for inventory and quality...
An application of fuzzy sets theory to the economic order quantity model with imperfect quality items
2004,
This article investigates the inventory problem for items received with imperfect...
A total quality management approach to human resources performance evaluation criteria
2003,
In contrast to previous research on human resources performance evaluation in quality...
The impact of a free-repair warranty policy on economic production quantity model for imperfect production systems
2004,
In this study, the economic production quantity problem in the presence of imperfect...
Resource allocation during tests for optimally reliable software
2004,
In this research, we develop a framework for performing resource allocation (budget...
Managing product design quality under resource constraints
2004,
Based on quality function deployment (QFD), we develop a simple, intuitive method,...
Self-adapting decision support for interactive fault diagnosis of manufacturing systems
1996,
As the manufacturing environment involves more automation, fault diagnosis of...
Reliability analysis of a renewable multiple cold standby system
2004,
We present a general reliability analysis of the basic multiple cold standby system...
Locomotives' operability simulation model
2003,
Inventory management is an important area within the organizations since it determines...
Some observations on energy loss and network entropy in water distribution networks
2003,
The design of water distribution networks has been extensively studied with the aid of...
Simulated annealing-based multiobjectve algorithms and their application for system reliability
2003,
The paper presents five simulated annealing based multiobjective algorithms –...
Non-homogeneous Poisson process software reliability and cost models with testing coverage
2003,
This paper proposes a software reliability model that incorporates testing coverage...
Optimal control of failure-prone manufacturing systems with constant repair times
2004,
This paper considers a failure-prone manufacturing system with exponentially...
Optimal classification of highly-reliable products whose degradation paths satisfy Wiener processes
2003,
At the research and development stage of a product, the manufacturer usually faces the...
Robust design with dynamic characteristics using stochastic sequential quadratic programming
2003,
Robust design with dynamic characteristics is an important off-line quality...
Reliability analysis of a two-unit standby system by computer simulation
2003,
We study the two-unit standby system with repair and with preventive maintenance....
Using Cpk index with fuzzy numbers to evaluate service quality
2002,
Service quality is measured by customers' satisfaction. Traditionally, the degree of...
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