International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 2 Issue 1
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DOCTOR — A Whole‐Life Reliability Cost Model
P.A.C. WheatcroftThe need for guidance in setting reliability requirements for military equipment is explored and the conclusions of a study into the feasibility of constructing a reliability cost…
Reliability Modelling of Non‐Maintained Parallel Systems with Multiple Failure Modes
Balbir S. Dhillon, Subramanyam N. RayapatiThis article presents four newly developed mathematical models representing non‐maintained parallel systems with hardware failures, common‐cause failures and human error. The…
Health and Quality Circles
Paul C. HydeThe following article discusses the development of a Health Authority Nursing Team and describes briefly the stages of development it went through until finally ending with…
Management of the Configuration of Software‐Based Fire and Gas Detection Systems
David J. SmithFire and gas detection systems involve the processing of signals from gas, temperature, smoke and ultra‐violet instruments. There is a trend towards the use of micro‐processor…
Soviet Product Quality and Soviet State Standards
Malcolm R. HillThis article is a review of research on the theme of Soviet product quality and Soviet state standards. The first section surveys previous research by Western scholars on the…
QFAX: An Interactive Viewdata System for Quality Communications
M.L. ChewQFAX is a microcomputer system for communicating information in a manner which emulates broadcast teletext (e.g., CEEFAX, ORACLE) in appearance, operation and facilities. It grew…

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- Professor Jiju Antony