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Key factors predicting effectiveness of cultural change and improved productivity in implementing total quality management
Morris Abraham, John Crawford, Tom FisherFourteen companies who were winners of the Australia Quality Award between 1989 and 1993 were surveyed regarding the dynamics of the change processes, which led to their…
An optimal software reliability design integrating the allocation model and the N‐version programming technique
Tai‐Hsi Wu, Weishing Chen, Fong‐Jung YuThe problem of optimal software reliability design is considered. Allocation models are usually used to compute the target reliability for each module of a software system to…
A quality monitoring and decision‐making scheme for automated production processes
M. Xie, X.S. Lu, T.N. Goh, L.Y. ChanTraditional attribute control charts are based on the monitoring of the number of nonconforming items in a sample of fixed size. In modern manufacturing processes, since items…
An alternative to the Weibull step‐stress model
Imad H. Khamis, James J. HigginsAn alternative is proposed to the Weibull cumulative exposure model in step‐stress testing, that we call the transformed exponential model. The proposed model comes from a…
Quality management in the logistics function: an empirical study
Robert Millen, Amrik Sohal, Simon MossThe importance of the logistics function has increased dramatically at many firms as competitive priorities have shifted from cost and product quality to delivery and…
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- Professor Jiju Antony