International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 32 Issue 1

Application and limitation of axiomatic design complexity in quality engineering

Naresh K. Sharma, Elizabeth A. Cudney

Complexity is an important element in axiomatic design theory. The current method for calculating complexity for a system following normal distribution is unbounded and…

Overcoming resistance against quality control – a philosophical-empirical approach

Henk J. de Vries, Andries Haverkamp

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the added value of philosophy in understanding and overcoming resistance to quality control.

Quality management in the global brewing industry

Charisis G. Vrellas, George Tsiotras

The purpose of this paper is to stimulate interest in the use of quality management methods and tools and to provide a basis and direction for further improvement in the global…

Improving the quality of environmental management: impact on shareholder value

Rose Sebastianelli, Nabil Tamimi, Kathleen Iacocca

The purpose of this paper is to build upon the conceptual model developed by Feldman et al. (1997) that demonstrated a link between improved environmental performance and…

Reliability based source maintenance scheduling using nature inspired algorithm

M. Abirami, S. Subramanian, S. Ganesan, R. Anandhakumar

The purpose of this paper is to solve the realistic problem of source maintenance scheduling (SMS) based on reliability criterion. A novel effective optimization technique is…

Study of reliability measures of a local area network via copula linguistics approach

D. K. Rawal, Mangey Ram, V. V. Singh

– The purpose of this paper is to find the reliability measures of Linux operating system connected in local area network (LAN).

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