...Angélica Muffato Reis; Elisa Verna; Lino Costa; Sérgio Dinis Sousa; Maurizio Galetto Purpose This study bridges the gap in quality control strategies for high-volume production by balancing the cost and effectiveness of inspection strategies. Using the cost of quality (CoQ) to manage cost...

... industry 4.0 potential contributions but lacks further detail on the exact applications and solutions through use cases and case studies. Secondly, there has been a focus on the potential benefits provided for quality control while there is a clear scarcity in terms of the other quality management tools...

...-chart ✓ ✓ Strategies to select K-mean parameters and parameter tuning for non-normal scenarios are not provided Note(s): ✓: Considered in the study Quality control Multivariate process control Nonparametric control Chart One-class-classifier Support vector machine Individual...

... with responsibility for their quality control, looking for high productivity levels. However, there are human limitations to deal with the increased amount of information/data resulting from the integration of new technologies. As such, the main research objective is to answer the following research question “How can...

... a process as “in- control” on the statistic's previous information. The practitioner can obtain the optimal parameters of this new chart through a friendly program developed by the authors. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Quality control...

...Nhlanhla Sibanda; Usha Ramanathan Purpose This research is elucidating quality control theories to reduce variation in chocolate manufacturing process in the UK food company that will help maintain the processes stable and predictable. The purpose of this paper is to reduce defects of the output...

... contains the quality assurance (QA) for the establishment and monitoring of systems and operational procedures before and during the clearance process. The second stage, quality control (QC), defines the process of inspection of cleared land and provides additional confidence that clearance requirements...

... in the literature. Balamurali Saminathan can be contacted at: sbmurali@rediffmail.com 16 12 2016 14 02 2017 20 02 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Quality control Mixed sampling plan Non-linear programming Process...

... 2016 23 08 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Control chart Mahalanobis distance Quality control Mahalanobis-Taguchi System Multivariate statistical process control Jiang et al. (2012) mentioned...

... be contacted at: sb485@hw.ac.uk 10 03 2015 06 10 2015 06 10 2015 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Critical success factors Continuous improvement Food industry Statistical process control Quality control...

...Pravin P Tambe; Makarand S Kulkarni Purpose – The traditional practice for maintenance, quality control and production scheduling is to plan independently irrespective of an interrelationship exist between them. The purpose of this paper is to develop an approach for integrating maintenance...

... operating environments. Research limitations/implications – The novel approach may be improved by a deeper statistical analysis and/or applying the fuzzy theory. Practical implications – A real case study is introduced in order to show the applicability of this approach to the quality control...

... is an appropriate multivariate data analysis that is helpful in extracting applicable knowledge of the data collected regarding the related attributes of the initial installed rings. Design/methodology/approach – Principal component analysis (PCA) is used to analyze the data obtained by the quality control...

...Claudia Paciarotti; Giovanni Mazzuto; Davide D’Ettorre Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a cost-effective, time-saving and easy-to-use failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) system applied on the quality control of supplied products. The traditional FMEA has been modified...

... Subramani can be contacted at: subbugow@yahoo.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Poisson distribution Quality control Sampling methods Acceptable quality level Attribute plan Limiting quality level Minimum risk plan Single sampling Weighted Poisson distribution According...

... software Quality control Predictor‐corrector methods Software metrics Fault prediction Aspect‐oriented software Separation of concerns is one of the vital principles in software engineering for achieving quality software (Filman et al., 2005). Although different approaches – including...

..., quality production results in foundry's growth and profit. Timely implementation of modified techniques based on the quality control research is necessary to avoid defects in products. Johnson (1989) claimed that there are many sources of stochastic variation in a foundry. Common sources include...

... of defective units is negligibly small when a well‐established process is in control. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Quality control Statistical process control Control charts Exponentially weighted moving average chart Defective minimization Random process shift...

... system maintenance Electric power systems Quality control In this paper, we describe an analysis of maintenance techniques and a review of factory data for an SF₆ gas circuit breaker population. The data analyzed is manufacturer data for an entire population of products produced from...

...) approximation with the latest, is available in many textbooks on quality control, and became a topic well established in the literature for a long time. However, this paper is focused on establishing an optimization framework to design acceptance sampling plans. Our main goal is to derive a conceptual tool able...