International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 20 Issue 5

Quality management practice in highway construction

Mireille G. Battikha

This 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. Sankaran

Failure 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 Cerio

The 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. Eklund

ISO 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. Duffuaa

In 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 Andrianakis

Reliability 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…