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Quality management practice in highway construction
Mireille G. BattikhaThis paper describes the quality management function as practiced in highway construction. This function is displayed as an interrelated system, which identifies the main quality…
Design of total failure mode and effects analysis programme
S.R. Devadasan, S. Muthu, R. Neil Samson, R.A. SankaranFailure prevention is recognised as one of the major enablers of attaining continuous quality improvement in total quality management (TQM) projects. Theoreticians have been…
The status of quality departments: Empirical evidence for the Spanish manufacturing industry
Alberto Bayo‐Moriones, Javier Merino‐Díaz de CerioThe gradual implementation by firms of the ideas and techniques associated with the concept of “quality management” is perhaps the clearest sign of the change and innovation that…
Implementing ISO 14000 in Sweden: motives, benefits and comparisons with ISO 9000
Bozena Poksinska, Jens Jörn Dahlgaard, Jörgen A.E. EklundISO 14000 is based on the concept that better environmental performance can be achieved when environmental aspects are systematically identified and managed. Despite the growing…
Integration of Taguchi's loss function approach in the economic design of x¯‐chart
M. Ben‐Daya, S.O. DuffuaaIn this paper we incorporate Taguchi's loss function in the economic design of the control chart. This is done by redefining the in‐control and out‐of‐control costs using…
Reliability analysis of simplex and duplex memory systems with SEC and soft‐error scrubbing recovery
John M. Kontoleon, John AndrianakisReliability of RAM memory systems is impaired by environmental disturbances, causing soft errors, whereby one data bit is transformed to another bit. Single‐error correcting codes…
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- Professor Jiju Antony