International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 40 Issue 6

The role of lean in healthcare during COVID-19 pandemic

Higor Leite

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare operations has raised questions about the applicability and capacity of the lean approach to respond to critical events. Thus…

Reliability analysis for stress–strength model from inverted exponentiated Rayleigh based on the hybrid censored sample

Hanieh Panahi

The study based on the estimation of the stress–strength reliability parameter plays a vital role in showing system efficiency. In this paper, considering independent strength and…

How to facilitate improvements in public service systems: propositions for action

Daniel Gyllenhammar, Peter Hammersberg

The purpose of this article is to increase the understanding of how improvements can be facilitated in a public service containing multiple actors in terms of identifying…

Machine learning-based failure prediction in industrial maintenance: improving performance by sliding window selection

Joerg Leukel, Julian González, Martin Riekert

Machine learning (ML) models are increasingly being used in industrial maintenance to predict system failures. However, less is known about how the time windows for reading data…

Understanding and application of quality costs in automotive manufacturing companies in North Macedonia: empirical study

Cvetanka Velkoska, Mite Tomov

This study aims at presenting deeper insights regarding the understanding and application of the quality costs (CoQ) in the automotive manufacturing industry. The empirical…

Lean manufacturing in fabrication industry: literature review and framework proposal

B.G. Aadithya, P. Asokan, S. Vinodh

The purpose of this paper is to report a review of various perspectives of lean in heavy engineering and fabrication industries and to propose a framework.

SMART-QUAL: a dashboard for quality measurement in higher education institutions

Esther Adot, Anna Akhmedova, Helena Alvelos, Sofia Barbosa-Pereira, Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent, Sónia Cardoso, Pedro Domingues, Fiorenzo Franceschini, Dolors Gil-Doménech, Ricardo Machado, Domenico Augusto Maisano, Frederic Marimon, Marta Mas-Machuca, Luca Mastrogiacomo, Ana I. Melo, Vera Miguéis, Maria J. Rosa, Paulo Sampaio, Dani Torrents, Ana Raquel Xambre

The paper aims to define a dashboard of indicators to assess the quality performance of higher education institutions (HEI). The instrument is termed SMART-QUAL.

Development of an optimized maintenance scheduling for emergency rescue railway wagons using a genetic algorithm: a case study of Iran railways company

Ali Zavareh, Ehsan Fallahiarezoudar, Mohaddeseh Ahmadipourroudposht

This paper aims to optimize the maintenance scheduling of emergency rescue wagons in railway companies using a genetic algorithm (GA). It offers an integrated model for…

The impact of organizational culture and total quality management on the relationship between green practices and sustainability performance

Lillian Fok, Yun-Chen Morgan, Susan Zee, Valerie E. Mock

This study aims to examine the direct and indirect effects of organizational culture (OC) and total quality management practices (TQMPs) on the relationship between green…

Reliability analysis of a two-unit‏ ‏standby system under Marshall–Olkin dependency

Afshin Yaghoubi, Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki

One of the common approaches to improve systems reliability is using standby redundancy. Although many works are available in the literature on the applications of standby…