International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 40 Issue 3

Design of a robot for inspection and diagnostic operations of rail track facilities

Ilesanmi Daniyan, Khumbulani Mpofu, Samuel Nwankwo

The need to examine the integrity of infrastructure in the rail industry in order to improve its reliability and reduce the chances of breakdown due to defects has brought about…

Supply chain sustainability risk assessment model using integration of the preference selection index (PSI) and the Shannon entropy

Agung Sutrisno, Vikas Kumar

This study proposes a new model for assessing supply chain sustainability risk integrating subjectivity and objectivity of decision-maker. Research has shown the vacancy of study…

Multi-criteria decision model for risk prioritisation involving multiple decision-makers: an application of composition of probabilistic preferences combined with FMEA in the supply chain

Ramon Swell Gomes Rodrigues Casado, Maisa Mendonca Silva, Lucio Camara Silva

The paper aims to propose a multi-criteria model for risk prioritisation associated to supply chain management involving multiple decision-makers.

Machine learning-based control charts for monitoring fraction nonconforming product in smart manufacturing

Simone Massulini Acosta, Angelo Marcio Oliveira Sant'Anna

Process monitoring is a way to manage the quality characteristics of products in manufacturing processes. Several process monitoring based on machine learning algorithms have been…

Data-driven approach to predict the sequence of component failures: a framework and a case study on a process industry

Sara Antomarioni, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica, Maurizio Bevilacqua

The research approach is based on the concept that a failure event is rarely random and is often generated by a chain of previous events connected by a sort of domino effect…

Feature selection for measurement models

Tobias Mueller, Alexander Segin, Christoph Weigand, Robert H. Schmitt

In the determination of the measurement uncertainty, the GUM procedure requires the building of a measurement model that establishes a functional relationship between the…

Product quality optimization vs production capacity optimization: an analytical perspective

Mohit Goswami, Yash Daultani

This study aims to devise generalized unconstrained optimization models for ascertaining the optimal level of product quality and production capacity level by modeling both…

A fuzzy Bayesian network-based approach for modeling and analyzing factors causing process variability

Anwesa Kar, Garima Sharma, Rajiv Nandan Rai

In order to minimize the impact of variability on performance of the process, proper understanding of factors interdependencies and their impact on process variability (PV) is…

Improving periodic maintenance performance: a grouping and heuristic approach

Jingrui Ge, Kristoffer Vandrup Sigsgaard, Julie Krogh Agergaard, Niels Henrik Mortensen, Waqas Khalid, Kasper Barslund Hansen

This paper proposes a heuristic, data-driven approach to the rapid performance evaluation of periodic maintenance on complex production plants. Through grouping, maintenance…

Quality management in industry 4.0 environment: a morphological analysis and research agenda

Anupama Prashar

Digitalised and interconnected production systems in the era of fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0 (I4.0) have triggered the need of reshaping the traditional Quality…