Transnational producers facing the present-day competitive global supply-chain
environments need to pursue the most appropriate manufacturing scheme, quality screening …

This work focuses on the problem of non conformity (NC) characterisation in quality
management systems (QMS) and introduces a fuzzy inference engine (FE) for NC analysis …

The problem of determining the optimal improvement programme quality effort in an
organization over a given time horizon is posed as a dynamic optimization problem. The …

Operating in today's highly competitive global markets, transnational enterprises always
seek to optimize internal vendor-buyer coordinated systems to ensure timeliness and quality …

Process capability indices (PCIs) are highly effective means for assessing the process
potential and performance in manufacturing industry. However, the approaches developed …

In this paper, we investigate an assemble-to-order supply chain including a manufacturer
and two complementary suppliers, one produces component associated with traditional …

Considering the random characteristics of the disturbances that may occur on the
engineering system, this paper proposes a test-based probabilistic resilience assessment …

In response to the demands of users for prompting fault diagnosis and maintenance,
equipment manufacturers require more advanced maintenance technologies for real-time …

Density forecasting is a subfield of multivariate regression aimed at accurate prediction of
full conditional distributions. This article presents methods for improving product quality by …

Economic design for acceptance sampling plans (ASP) has attracted the attention of many
researchers. In this article, rectifying single ASP is checked by using the maxima nomination …