International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 27 Issue 1

Avoiding rework in product design: evidence from the aerospace industry

Isabelle Dostaler

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study commissioned by an aircraft producer that is concerned about the efficiency of its new product development process…

The performance measurement perspectives and causal relationship for ISO‐certified companies: A case of opto‐electronic industry

Shwu‐Ing Wu, Shin‐Yi Liu

Using opto‐electronic industries as the example, the purpose of this paper is to include: designing reliable performance perspectives and indicators for evaluating ISO‐certified…

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and process capability (PC) measures: A relationship analysis

Jose Arturo Garza‐Reyes, Steve Eldridge, Kevin D. Barber, Horacio Soriano‐Meier

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and process capability (PC) are commonly used and well‐accepted measures of performance in industry. These measures, however, are…

Taguchi techniques‐based study on the effect of mobile phone conversation on drivers' reaction time

Zahid A. Khan, Ibrahim A. Al‐Darrab

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate application of the Taguchi method‐based conceptual signal‐to‐noise (S/N) approach and Pareto analysis of variance (ANOVA) to determine…

Evaluating the reliability of component‐based software systems

R. Chinnaiyan, S. Somasundaram

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the reliability of individual software components in terms of the probability that each software component performs its intended…

A study of testing‐effort dependent inflection S‐shaped software reliability growth models with imperfect debugging

N. Ahmad, M.G.M. Khan, L.S. Rafi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how to incorporate the exponentiated Weibull (EW) testing‐effort function (TEF) into inflection S‐shaped software reliability growth…

Measuring the impact of research

Rebecca Marsh