International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 8 Issue 1

Quality Assurance in the Textile Industry: Part II

Neal Allen, John S. Oakland

The work described is part of three‐stage project on the practice of quality management in the textile industry. This article is concerned with the results of structured…

Quality Management in the Chain Saw Industry: A Case Study

Frederick Chen

An industry‐wide analysis of quality management methods was conducted in the chain saw industry. It was found that all other firms have within the past five years followed the…

Quality Systems and Customer Certification

Jangir Panday

It is usual for a components manufacturing business to hold formal customer approval for its quality systems before it can supply any goods. Such approval or certification is…

Quality‐Strategy and Quality‐Management Connections

Kenneth R. Tillery, Arthur L. Rutledge

Quality will continue to be an issue to the business community in the 1990s. Firms facing the changing demands from their customer groups as well as from their competitors must…

Sensitivity Analysis of Maintained Systems Using a Population Model: A Case Study

James T. Luxhoj

A probabilistic methodology is discussed for the evaluation of maintenance requirements and expected costs for large‐scale logistics systems. A multitude of identical system…

A Review of the Cast Iron Foundry Industry: Past, Present and Future. Part 2 ‐‐ The Way Forward

P.S. Cheema, A.J. Griffiths, D.R. Towill

A review of the cast iron foundry industry has been given in two parts. Part 1 concentrated on historical aspects of the UK foundry industry, whilst Part 2 will look at the…