International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 8 Issue 2

Quality Assurance in the Textile Industry: Part III

Neal Allen, John S. Oakland

The work described in this article concerns the practice of quality management in the UK textile industry. This part describes the detailed in‐company work, the results of…

Importance Measures for System Components in Population Models

James T. Luxhoj

Population models have been developed for large‐scale maintenance requirements planning. However, these models assume that all component groupings are equally important or…

Human Factors and Reliability in Colliery Maintenance

Jonathan Winterton

New technologies of coal production have improved machine reliability but increased technical complexity. More man shifts are now devoted to maintenance than to coalface…

Selection of Single‐sampling Quick Switching System for Given Acceptable and Limiting Quality Levels

K. Govindaraju, K. Subramani

A table and a procedure are given for finding the single‐sampling quick switching system for which the sum of producer′s and consumer′s risks is minimum for specified Acceptable…

Individual Involvement and Intervention in Quality Improvement Programmes: Using the Andon System

Robert J. Everett, Amrik S. Sohal

Individual involvement and intervention are recognised as genuine concepts of a quality improvement programme and are critical to its success. The Andon system, which is an…

Building Quality Control Systems for Hospital Food‐service Operations

Bin‐Shan Lin

In the health care area, there is a wealth of information about quality control methods, but little has been written about computer‐based quality control systems. This article…