...Ricardo Puziol Oliveira; Jorge Alberto Achcar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a new method to estimate the reliability of series system by using a discrete bivariate distribution. This problem is of great interest in industrial and engineering applications. Design/methodology...

... managers (PMs) and project team members (consultants, engineers and architects). Design/methodology/approach The study sample consists of individuals from the aforementioned four roles of ISO 9001-certified and non-ISO 9001-certified companies. A questionnaire survey was used to collect the data from...

...S.L. Tang; C.W. Kam Quality assurance has generally been accepted by the construction industry since the introduction of ISO 9000 quality standards in 1987. About 40 consulting engineering firms have successfully achieved ISO 9001 certification in Hong Kong from 1994 but the quality assurance...

... of the study carried out are presented next. Dr Edward Deming is credited for his contribution to Japanese quality engineering through introduction of statistical process control. Taguchi’s emphasis has been to make a further shift from production to design. Philosophically, robust design...

...T. Hillman Willis; William D. Willis Engineering consulting firms involved in the design and construction of large‐scale industrial plants attempt to find flaws as early as possible in the design process to avoid more costly deviation corrections later on, particularly during and after construction...

... electronics, then elaborates on transients’ effects on reliability and discusses the related management issues. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Computer industry Design Electronics industry Engineering Quality control Reliability A transient does not always cause a failure. Transients...

...Mark A. Johnson This COQ project was originated with the objective of investigating measures of the cost of quality in engineering departments. The goal was to identify existing measures of the cost of quality in engineering operations and to recommend measures for possible use for the engineering...

... may be safety and promptness. This article will report on what the consulting engineering firms and their clients believe are the more important aspects in their transactions. The intangible nature of services has obstructed the advancement of the field of service quality. Whereas manufactured...

...Jen‐der Day Proposes a cost model for parameter design in quality engineering. In this model the total cost is minimized to obtain the best design. The total cost includes quality loss, cost for input characteristic, and cost for objective characteristic adjustment. Presents the best mean level...

... living person in an organisation, ranging from shopfloor workers and supervisors to engineers and managers. The statistical tools used may be different from the straightforward to the mathematically sophisticated but all of them have to be learned and correctly applied. Statistics, unlike machines...

... is proposed and technical limits are equated to the Cost of Quality for capital‐intensive prevention projects. The manufacture of ethanol is used as an example to demonstrate the concepts and methodology of using technical limit analysis and its conversion to an economic “incentive” using engineering...

... of the manufacturing processes involved can lead to the relaxation in requirements, thus, promoting industrial harmony while, at the same time, maintaining the desired levels of product quality and reliability, is shown. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Cost Engineering Functional Analysis Abdelmadjid Cheikh...

... of evalution, for this reason, is used extensively in this field. Testing for Long Life Performance 49 IJQRM 5,3 50 Interpretation of Results The above theoretical model was introduced because it is an illustration of the dilemma facing the applications engineer. In the model, there are two elements...

...‐speed automated assembly operation to detect error conditions and report quality information. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Computers Engineering Industrial Design Quality Control The authors wish to thank DuPont Electronics, Dr R.W. Cliffe and Mr A.B. Davis for their help and co‐operation...