International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 5 Issue 4

A Total Quality Control Programme for Dunlop Malaysia: The Key Issues

Ching Tow Fah

The concept of Total Quality Control (TQC) in the Malaysian environment is discussed in general terms, and the TQC infrastructure in Japan is compared to that in Malaysia. It is…

Reliability Analysis of Mechanical Devices

Balbir S. Dhillon, Subramanyam N. Rayapati

A newly developed model for performing reliability and availability analysis of mechanical devices subject to multiple failure modes is presented. Using this model, reliability…

Investing to Improve Product Quality

P.L. Primrose, R. Leonard

Quality problems have traditionally been measured in term of cost penalties, and therefore efforts to improve quality have been aimed at a reduction in such factors as scrap or…

Quality Circles and Organisation Culture

M. Dolores Moreno Luzon

This article is an attempt to increase knowledge of the best conditions for application of a programme of quality circles. It suggests that before applying such a programme, the…

Characterisation of Imminent System Failure and Replacement Policies

D. Jerwood, A.Z. Keller, F.A. Georgiakodis

Discriminant analysis techniques can select, from a large number of feature variables available, a relatively small subset, which will in combination produce optimum prognostic…

A Goal Programming Application for Waste Treatment Quality Control

R.P. Mohanty, Jerry C.C. Koay

Increases in industrialisation in developing countries bring bout increases in the levels of industrial waste which have to be disposed of. Increasing the efficiency of such waste…