International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 30 Issue 1

Optimization of process factors for controlling defects due to melt shop using Taguchi method

Sushil Kumar, P.S. Satsangi, D.R. Prajapati

The purpose of this paper is to identify the influencing factors which cause casting defects and determination of optimum value of factors to minimize these defects in a melt shop…

Assessing the impact of failures in service operations using experimental design with simulation

Vassilis Gliatis, Ioannis Minis, Kiriaki Myrto Lavasa

Failures represent an important source of variability in service operations and a major performance challenge. As a consequence, the effective management of failures is a…

Selection of single sampling attribute plan for given AQL and LQL involving minimum risks using weighted Poisson distribution

Kandasamy Subramani, Venugopal Haridoss

The purpose of this paper is to present the single sampling attribute plan for given acceptance quality level (AQL) and limiting quality level (LQL) involving minimum sum of risks…

Evaluating the likelihood of the adoption of an animal welfare assessment system in European agri‐food supply chains

Lusine Aramyan, Paul Ingenbleek, Gé Backus, Kees de Roest, Richard Tranter

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the likelihood of adoption of a recently designed Welfare Assessment System in agri‐food supply chains and the factors affecting the…

An exploratory case study of aspect‐oriented metrics for fault proneness, content and fixing effort prediction

Mahmoud O. Elish, Mojeeb AL‐Rahman AL‐Khiaty, Mohammad Alshayeb

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between some aspect‐oriented metrics and aspect fault proneness, content and fixing effort.

Software reliability estimation using Bayesian approach

Thankappan Vasanthi, Ganapathy Arulmozhi

The purpose of this paper is to use Bayesian probability theory to analyze the software reliability model with multiple types of faults. The probability that all faults are…

Erratum

Kuei Hu Chang, Yung Chia Chang, Pei Ting Lai