Quality and Reliability Management and Its Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Quality Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. A Multicriteria Multistep Approach for Evaluating Supplier Quality in Large Data Sets

      • Aqeel Al Salem, Anjali Awasthi, Chun Wang

      Pages 3-25

   3. Risk-Adjusted Performance Monitoring in Healthcare Quality Control

      • Li Zeng

      Pages 27-45

   4. Univariate and Multivariate Process Capability Analysis for Different Types of Specification Limits

      • Ashis Kumar Chakraborty, Moutushi Chatterjee

      Pages 47-81

3. Reliability Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Modeling and Analyzing System Failure Behavior for Reliability Analysis Using Soft Computing-Based Techniques

      • Harish Garg

      Pages 85-115

   3. System Reliability Evaluation of a Multistate Manufacturing Network

      • Yi-Kuei Lin, Ping-Chen Chang, Cheng-Fu Huang

      Pages 117-143

   4. Systemability: A New Reliability Function for Different Environments

      • Alessandro Persona, Fabio Sgarbossa, Hoang Pham

      Pages 145-193

4. Maintenance Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Innovative Maintenance Management Methods in Oil Refineries

      • M. Bevilacqua, F. E. Ciarapica, G. Giacchetta, C. Paciarotti, B. Marchetti

      Pages 197-226

   3. Age Replacement Models with Random Works

      • Xufeng Zhao, Toshio Nakagawa

      Pages 227-248

   4. Availability of Systems with or Without Inspections

      • Kai Huang, Jie Mi

      Pages 249-275

   5. Reliability and Maintenance of the Surveillance Systems Considering Two Dependent Processes

      • Yao Zhang, Hoang Pham

      Pages 277-306

5. Design, Applications and Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-307

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   2. Reliability Management

      • Fred Schenkelberg

      Pages 309-351

   3. Design for Reliability and Its Application in Automotive Industry

      • Guangbin Yang

      Pages 353-377

   4. Product Durability/Reliability Design and Validation Based on Test Data Analysis

      • Zhigang Wei, Limin Luo, Fulun Yang, Burt Lin, Dmitri Konson

      Pages 379-413

   5. Turbine Fatigue Reliability and Life Assessment Using Ultrasonic Inspection: Data Acquisition, Interpretation, and Probabilistic Modeling

      • Xuefei Guan, El Mahjoub Rasselkorde, Waheed A. Abbasi, S. Kevin Zhou

      Pages 415-434

   6. Fusing Wavelet Features for Ocean Turbine Fault Detection

      • Janell Duhaney, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Randall Wald

      Pages 435-448

Integrating development processes, policies, and reliability predictions from the beginning of the product development lifecycle to ensure high levels of product performance and safety, this book helps companies overcome the challenges posed by increasingly complex systems in today’s competitive marketplace.
 
Examining both research on and practical aspects of product quality and reliability management with an emphasis on applications, the book features contributions written by active researchers and/or experienced practitioners in the field, so as to effectively bridge the gap between theory and practice and address new research challenges in reliability and quality management in practice. 
 
Postgraduates, researchers and practitioners in the areas of reliability engineering and management, amongst others, will find the book to offer a state-of-the-art survey of quality and reliability management and practices.

• Engineering Quality Management
• Maintenance and Warranty Systems
• Product Development Life Cycle
• Reliability Engineering
• System Reliability Modeling
• quality control, reliability, safety and risk
• Engineering Economics

• Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA

  Hoang Pham

Dr. Hoang Pham is Professor and Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Before joining Rutgers, he was a senior engineering specialist at the Boeing Company, Seattle and the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls. His research interests include system reliability modeling, maintenance, software reliability, probabilistic risk assessment, reliability management, and environmental risk assessment.
Dr. Pham is the author of 6 books and has edited over ten books including Handbook of Reliability Engineering (Springer-Verlag, 2003) and Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics (Springer, 2006). He is the editor of Springer Series in Reliability Engineering and has published more than 120 journal articles, 35 book chapters, and over 50 conference papers.
Dr. Pham is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, and also serves as associate editor of five journals including the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part A. He has been conference chair and program chair of over 35 international conferences and is currently the Conference Chair of the 18th International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, Boston, MA. He is a fellow of both the IEEE and IIE.
Dr. Pham received the B.S. degree in mathematics, B.S. degree in computer science, both with high honors, from Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, the M.S. degree in statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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