International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 39 Issue 9

A lifecycle cost model considering both component and system burn-in for operationally unrepairable systems

Kah How Teo, Kang Tai, Vincenzo Schena, Luca Simonini

This study presents a lifecycle cost model considering multi-level burn-in for operationally unrepairable systems including assembly and warranty costs. A numerical method to…

Problem-solving by total productive maintenance swift teams: communication network structure, media choice and team effectiveness

Jorge Colazo

This study aims to look at the performance, communication structure and media choice for swift teams (STs) formed with the purpose of recovering from operational emergencies in…

Modeling a sequentially inspected system prone to degradation and shocks

Himani Pant, S.B. Singh

In certain environments, the system may not fail completely, but undergoes degradation, and the system productivity might decrease. Meanwhile, at the same time, the system may be…

Availability and maintenance modeling of a batch service queuing system

Shweta Agarwal, S.B. Singh

The purpose of the paper is to analyze reliability characteristics of batch service queuing system with a single server model that envisages Poisson input process and exponential…

Contact points between Lean Six Sigma and Industry 4.0: a systematic review and conceptual framework

Juliano Endrigo Sordan, Pedro Carlos Oprime, Marcio Lopes Pimenta, Sérgio Luis da Silva, Mario Orestes Aguirre González

This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework of the implementation of the contact points (CPs) between Lean Six Sigma practices and Industry 4.0 technologies.

Managing the resource allocation for the COVID-19 pandemic in healthcare institutions: a pluralistic perspective

Manimuthu Arunmozhi, Jinil Persis, V. Raja Sreedharan, Ayon Chakraborty, Tarik Zouadi, Hanane Khamlichi

As COVID-19 outbreak has created a global crisis, treating patients with minimum resources and traditional methods has become a hectic task. In this technological era, the rapid…

A robust multiobjective solution approach for mean-variance optimisation of correlated multiple quality characteristics

Abhinav Kumar Sharma, Indrajit Mukherjee, Sasadhar Bera, Raghu Nandan Sengupta

The primary objective of this study is to propose a robust multiobjective solution search approach for a mean-variance multiple correlated quality characteristics optimisation…

Identification of asset life cycle stage: case study in heavy-duty truck fleet

Oscar Daniel Rivera Baena, Maria Valentina Clavijo Mesa, Carmen Elena Patino Rodriguez, Fernando Jesus Guevara Carazas

This paper aims to determine the stage of the life cycle where the trucks of a waste collection fleet from a Colombian city are located through a reliability approach. The…

Comparative analysis of ranking the lean supply chain enablers: An AHP, BWM and fuzzy SWARA based approach

Hemant Sharma, Nagendra Sohani, Ashish Yadav

In the recent scenario, there has been an increasing trend toward lean practices and implementation in production systems for the improvement of an organization’s performance as…