...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...

... factors are as follows: © MCB UP Limited 1998 Engineering Optimization Process design Quality Over the past five years, the Indian economic environment has experienced considerable change. Sweeping reforms brought global competition in various sectors of business. This made...

...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...

... random process of rare events as below. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Computer industry Design Electronics industry Engineering Quality control Reliability It has been said that we are living in the age of microelectronics and computers. They are present in almost every electronic...

...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...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1994 Australia Consultancies Engineering Service industries Service quality TQM Total Quality Management (TQM) has, arguably, provided the most useful vehicle for change in the practices and attitudes of managers in relation to quality issues. The quality...

...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...

... 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...

... proficiency in the statistical approach in an organisation are discussed from a management perspective. © MCB UP Limited 1990 ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING PRODUCTIVITY QUALITY STATISTICS TRAINING Raising Statistical Literacy for Raising Statistical Literacy Manufacturing Productivity T.N. Goh...

... by Abdelmadjid Cheikh and Peter F. McGoldrick Department of Production Engineering and Production Management, University of Nottingham It is well known from experience that it is impossible to manufacture mechanical parts to an exact level of accuracy, and, when sent into diverging environments, their variations...

... of the needs of industry for a short‐term quality control test procedure and in the absence of a viable alternative, there is much to recommend the adoption of fatigue as the basis of a production quality assurance system. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Engineering Plastics Industry Quality Control Tests...

... for the research programme. Computers Engineering Industrial Design Quality Control © MCB UP Limited 1988 IJQRM 5,3 38 High-speed Assembly Force Monitoring for Quality Control J.D.T. Tannock and J.J. Hill* Department of Engineering, Bristol Polytechnic Bristol Polytechnic, in collaboration...