Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 2 Issue 2

Implementing TQM in an aerospace maintenance company

Mark Goh, Fang‐Seng Lim

Describes the TQM implementation in an aerospace maintenance company in Singapore. Quality improvement teams have been formed to improve the repair and maintenance turntimes of…

Achieving quality through supportability ‐ part I: concepts and principles

Caroline Smith, Jezdimir Knezevic

Attempts to improve the quality of the products or systems which customers purchase have focused traditionally on improving the availability of the product through its reliability…

Reliability analysis of a repairable robot system

B.S. Dhillon, N. Yang

Presents two newly developed Markov models (I and II) to perform reliability analysis of a system composed of a robot and its associated safety system. Model I presents…

Quality assurance for safety‐related components in a waste repository

Ingo A. Beckmerhagen, Heinz P. Berg, K. Harnack

Quality assurance (QA) with regard to structures, systems and components is also an important task during the design and operational phase of a repository for the disposal of…

Cost‐benefit analysis of a complex system with correlated failures and repairs

Rakesh Gupta, Ramkishan

Studies the cost‐benefit analysis of a complex system consisting of two subsystems for example, A and B, connected in series. Subsystem A is composed of two identical units while…