International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 11 Issue 6

Quality Improvement Using Capital Budgeting and Taguchi’s Function

Geanie W. Margavio, Ross L. Fink, Thomas M. Margavio

Quality improvement decisions are the catalyst for substantialtechnological improvements being made in the manufacturing sector. Thenew technology, however, has developed faster…

Cycle‐time and Cost Improvement by Designed Experiments

Mete B. Sirvanci, Mahmut Durmaz

Cycle‐time reduction, an important practice in total quality management,helps in putting higher quality products and services to the marketplacefaster. Reduction of the machining…

Non‐normality in Statistical Process Control Measurements

T.A. Spedding, P.L. Rawlings

Control charts and process capability calculations remain fundamentaltechniques for statistical process control. However, it has long beenrealized that the accuracy of these…

Multi‐type Rework in Two‐stage Production Systems

M.N. Gopalan, S. Kannan

Incorporates the concept of quality control in the probabilisticanalysis of two‐stage production systems. Provides an integratedframework to consider manufacturing, inspection and…

β Charts for Short Run Statistical Process Control

Victor E. Sower, Jaideep G. Motwani, Michael J. Savoie

Proposes the use of a β, or difference‐from‐nominal, control chart forshort‐run industrial processes providing certain conditions are met.While some manufacturers have used delta…

Accounting for Specifications in Statistical Process Control

René Gélinas

Usually, statistical process control uses control charts for monitoringthe evolution of a manufacturing process. Traditionally, control limitsare computed without considering…

A Note on Optimal Inspection Intervals

Jussi K. Vaurio

Solving an optimal test or inspection interval is a relevant problem fora machine that is subject to random failures when failures can only berevealed by periodic inspection or…