International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 9 Issue 6

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Life‐cycle Cost Policy when Equipment Maintenance Is Imperfect

Festus O. Olorunniwo

Maintenance‐related costs contribute significantly to equipment life‐cycle costs. In practice, maintenance works are not perfect in the sense that they cannot restore the…

Economically Optimal Determination of the Parameters of Cusum Charts

Kun‐Jen Chung

In 1973, Goel and Wu presented an algorithm for the economic design of cusum charts to control the mean of a process with a normally distributed quality characteristic. They…

Development of Operating Characteristics (OC) Curves for Acceptance Sampling Plans

Richard L. Luebbe, Byron J. Finch

Provides an automatic spreadsheet approach to developing acceptance sampling plans. The technique described allows the user to develop the plan using any needed values for alpha…

Training Issues in Human Reliability

I. Wilson, B. Kirwan

While training is seen to be of high importance in ensuring adequate human reliability, both in human reliability theory and practice, the question of what “adequate training”…

Development and Evaluation of Control Charts Using Double Exponentially Weighted Moving Averages

Shawky E. Shamma, Amal K. Shamma

The double exponentially weighted moving average (DEWMA), which is known in the literature as Brown′s one‐parameter linear method for forecasting is proposed as a control tool for…

Idea Generation Techniques for Quality Improvement

Joyce Fortune

Idea generation is central to many quality improvement methods and techniques but examination of that part of the quality literature which relates to problem‐solving improvement…

Cover of International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management

ISSN:

0265-671X

Online date, start – end:

1984

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Professor Jiju Antony