Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Volume 24

Volume 24, Number 1, February 2008

Editorials

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  Douglas C. Montgomery:
  A Retrospective on Volume 23 of Quality and Reliability Engineering International. 1-2

Research Articles

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  James M. Gilbert:
  Design of electronic systems based on functional capability. 3-21
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  Martin Arvidsson, Ida Gremyr:
  Principles of robust design methodology. 23-35
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  Lorraine Daniels, Connie M. Borror, Richard K. Burdick:
  Confidence intervals for the comparison of variability estimates for a mixed model. 37-53
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  Changliang Zou, Zhaojun Wang, Fugee Tsung:
  Monitoring autocorrelated processes using variable sampling schemes at fixed-times. 55-69
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  JrJung Lyu, Ming-Nan Chen:
  Gauge capability studies for attribute data. 71-82
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  Fu-Kwun Wang, S. W. Yang:
  Applying Bootstrap method to the types I-II errors in the measurement system. 83-97
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  William H. Woodall, Connie M. Borror:
  Some relationships between gage R&R criteria. 99-106

Case Studies

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  Peter A. Parker, Christine M. Anderson-Cook, Timothy J. Robinson, Li Liang:
  Robust split-plot designs. 107-121

Book Reviews

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  Patrick O'Connor:
  Introduction to Statistical Engineering. S.J. Morrison (Ed.) 2007 Discovered Authors 209 pages. 123
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  Patrick O'Connor:
  Design and Analyse Your Experiment with Minitab. Tony Greenfield and Andrew Metcalfe (Eds.) 2007 Hodder Arnold: UK 303 pages. 123

Volume 24, Number 2, March 2008

Editorials

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  Aarnout Brombacher:
  Technical versus economical product life; some interesting paradoxes. 125-126

Research Articles

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  Ashraf A. Almimi, Murat Kulahci, Douglas C. Montgomery:
  Estimation of missing observations in two-level split-plot designs. 127-152
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  Charles W. Champ, Francisco Aparisi:
  Double sampling hotelling's T² charts. 153-166
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  Frøydis Bjerke, Øyvind Langsrud, Are Halvor Aastveit:
  Restricted randomization and multiple responses in industrial experiments. 167-181
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  Marcelo Guimarães Morello, Kátia Lucchesi Cavalca, Zilda de Castro Silveira:
  Development and reduction of a fault tree for gearboxes of heavy commercial vehicles based on identification of critical components. 183-198
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  Enrique Claver, Juan José Tarí:
  The individual effects of total quality management on customers, people and society results and quality performance in SMEs. 199-211
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  Kerstin Vännman, Murat Kulahci:
  A model-free approach to eliminate autocorrelation when testing for process capability. 213-228

Case Studies

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  Carlos Adriano Rigo Teixeira, Kátia Lucchesi Cavalca:
  Reliability as an added-value factor in an automotive clutch system. 229-248

Volume 24, Number 3, April 2008

Editorials

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  Douglas C. Montgomery:
  Does six sigma stifle innovation? 249

Research Articles

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  Lap Keung Chu, A. K. Y. Leung, Domenic Sculli:
  A portfolio approach to maintenance: a case study of a residential estate. 251-264
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  Bimal P. Nepal, Om Prakash Yadav, Leslie Monplaisir, Alper Ekrem Murat:
  A framework for capturing and analyzing the failures due to system/component interactions. 265-289
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  Jing Li, Jianjun Shi, Devin Satz:
  Modeling and analysis of disease and risk factors through learning Bayesian networks from observational data. 291-302
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  Richard L. Marcellus:
  Bayesian monitoring to detect a shift in process mean. 303-313
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  Aris Christou:
  Monte Carlo reliability model for microwave monolithic integrated circuits. 315-329
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  James R. Simpson, Drew Landman, Rupert Giroux, Michelle Zeisset, Brian Hall, Ray D. Rhew:
  Adapting second-order response surface designs to specific needs. 331-349
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  Ming-Hsien Caleb Li, Abbas Al-Refaie:
  Improving wooden parts' quality by adopting DMAIC procedure. 351-360

Case Studies

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  Yuling Cui, A. Wahid Khan:
  A case study: Reliability-based product development and improvement model. 361-373

Volume 24, Number 4, June 2008

Editorials

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  Aarnout Brombacher:
  Product quality and over-efficient business processes... 375

Research Articles

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  Luis Angel García-Escudero, Miguel Alejandro Fernández, Oscar Duque, Angel Luis Zorita-Lamadrid:
  Warning procedures for systems that are improving. 377-387
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  Haim Shore:
  Comparison of linear predictors obtained by data transformation, generalized linear models (GLM) and response modeling methodology (RMM). 389-399
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  Alessandra Giovagnoli, Daniele Romano:
  Robust design via simulation experiments: a modified dual response surface approach. 401-416
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  Laura Ilzarbe, María Jesús Álvarez, Elisabeth Viles, Martín Tanco:
  Practical applications of design of experiments in the field of engineering: a bibliographical review. 417-428
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  Willis A. Jensen, G. Rex Bryce, Marion R. Reynolds Jr.:
  Design issues for adaptive control charts. 429-445
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  Sergiy A. Vilkomir, David Lorge Parnas, Veena B. Mendiratta, Eamonn Murphy:
  Computer systems availability evaluation using a segregated failures model. 447-465

Application Articles

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  Fred Spiring:
  A process capability/customer satisfaction approach to short-run processes. 467-483

Short Communications

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  Daniel Grove, Felician Campean:
  A comparison of two methods of analysing staircase fatigue test data. 485-497

Call for Papers

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  Don R. Holcomb, Murat Kulahci:
  Call for Papers: 'Quality and Reliability Engineering International is Planning a Special Issue Focusing on Design for Six Sigma'. 499

Volume 24, Number 5, August 2008

Editorials

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  Douglas C. Montgomery:
  Applications of design of experiments in engineering. 501-502

Research Articles

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  Michael D. Joner Jr., William H. Woodall, Marion R. Reynolds Jr., Ronald D. Fricker Jr.:
  A one-sided MEWMA chart for health surveillance. 503-518
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  Anatoly Lisnianski, Ilia Frenkel, Lev Khvatskin, Yi Ding:
  Maintenance contract assessment for aging systems. 519-531
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  Johannes Freiesleben:
  Principles of evaluating quality investments. 533-542
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  Jong In Park, Seong Jun Kim, Myong K. Jeong:
  A new tolerance design method for a secondary rechargeable battery using design of experiments with mixture. 543-556
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  Lee-Ing Tong, Chung-Ho Wang, Chih-Wei Tsai:
  Robust design for multiple dynamic quality characteristics using data envelopment analysis. 557-571
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  M. B. Vermaat, Ronald J. M. M. Does, Søren Bisgaard:
  EWMA control chart limits for first- and second-order autoregressive processes. 573-584
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  Yuhlong Lio, Chanseok Park:
  A bootstrap control chart for Birnbaum-Saunders percentiles. 585-600
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  José-Luis Alfaro-Navarro, Juan Fco. Ortega:
  A robust alternative to Hotelling's T² control chart using trimmed estimators. 601-611

Case Studies

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  Anderson Mwegerano, Pekka Kytösaho, Timo Liukkonen, Aulis Tuominen:
  Characterization of resolution cycle times of corrective actions in mobile terminals. 613-621

Book Reviews

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  Aarnout Brombacher:
  Life Cycle Reliability Engineering, Guangbin Yang, Chichester, Wiley, 2007, ISBN 978-0471715290. 0471715298. 623

Volume 24, Number 6, October 2008

Editorials

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  Joachim Kunert, Claus Weihs:
  Seventh Annual ENBIS Conference. 625

Special Issue Articles

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  Malgorzata Bogdan, Jayanta K. Ghosh, Malgorzata Zak-Szatkowska:
  Selecting explanatory variables with the modified version of the Bayesian information criterion. 627-641
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  Karsten Röpke, Carsten von Essen:
  DoE in engine development. 643-651
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  S. Masala, Paola Pedone, M. Sandigliano, Daniele Romano:
  Product/process improvement by integrated physical and simulation experiments: a case study in the textile industry. 653-666
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  Bernadette Govaerts, Walthère Dewé, Myriam Maumy, Bruno Boulanger:
  Pre-study analytical method validation: comparison of four alternative approaches based on quality-level estimation and tolerance intervals. 667-680
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  David Ginsbourger, Céline Helbert, Laurent Carraro:
  Discrete mixtures of kernels for Kriging-based optimization. 681-691

Special Issue Papers

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  Zsolt Robotka, András Zempléni, Csilla Hajas, Csaba Seres, Sándor Balázs:
  Genetic algorithms and grid technologies in clustering, an example: Clustering of images. 693-703

Special Issue Articles

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  Petra Perner:
  Case-based reasoning and the statistical challenges. 705-720
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  Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis, Douglas M. Hawkins:
  A Bayesian EWMA method to detect jumps at the start-up phase of a process. 721-735
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  Roselinde Kessels, Bradley A. Jones, Peter Goos, Martina Vandebroek:
  Recommendations on the use of Bayesian optimal designs for choice experiments. 737-744

Volume 24, Number 7, November 2008

Research Articles

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  Om Prakash Yadav, Nipun Choudhary, Canan Bilen:
  Complex system reliability estimation methodology in the absence of failure data. 745-764
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  Mehdi Ghazanfari, Adel Alaeddini, Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki, Mir-Bahador Aryanezhad:
  A clustering approach to identify the time of a step change in Shewhart control charts. 765-778
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  Dejan Ivezic, Milos Tanasijevic, Dragan Ignjatovic:
  Fuzzy approach to dependability performance evaluation. 779-792
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  Nan Chen, Shiyu Zhou, Tzyy-Shuh Chang, Howard Huang:
  Attribute control charts using generalized zero-inflated Poisson distribution. 793-806
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  Yu-Hung Chien:
  A new warranty strategy: Combining a renewing free-replacement warranty with a rebate policy. 807-815
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  René Valverde-Ventura, Harriet Black Nembhard:
  Robustness properties of Cuscore statistics for monitoring a nonstationary system. 817-841
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  Lin Li, Jun Ni:
  Reliability estimation based on operational data of manufacturing systems. 843-854

Application Articles

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  Yu-Chang Lin, Chao-Yu Chou:
  The variable sampling rate x control charts for monitoring autocorrelated processes. 855-870

Volume 24, Number 8, December 2008

Editorials

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  Roderick Thomas:
  Sixth International Conference on Quality Reliability and Maintenance. 871-872

Special Issue Articles

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  Ian Wells, P. C. Charlton, Stephen Mosey, K. E. Donne:
  Background noise removal in ultrasonic B-scan images using iterative statistical techniques. 873-879
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  Carlo Ferri, Emmanuel Brousseau:
  Variability in measurements of micro lengths with a white light interferometer. 881-890
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  Saleh A. Al-Jufout:
  Evaluating the error caused by load ignorance through simulation of short circuit in electrical power systems. 891-895
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  Kelvin E. Donne, Richard D. Thomas, Christopher Davies, Geoffrey Calvert:
  Photoelastic stress and thermographic measurements of automotive windscreen defects generated by projectile impact. 897-902
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  K. Pickard, A. Dieter:
  Integrative qualitative quality assurance and reliability prediction over the complete product design cycle. 903-910

Research Articles

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  Pannapa Changpetch, Harriet Black Nembhard:
  Periodic Cuscore charts to detect step shifts in autocorrelated processes. 911-926
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  Flavio S. Fogliatto:
  Multiresponse optimization of products with functional quality characteristics. 927-939
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  Philippe Castagliola, Kerstin Vännman:
  Average run length when monitoring capability indices using EWMA. 941-955
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  Emil Bashkansky, Tamar Gadrich:
  Evaluating quality measured on a ternary ordinal scale. 957-971
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  Martín Tanco, Elisabeth Viles, Laura Ilzarbe, María Jesús Álvarez:
  How is experimentation carried out by companies? A survey of three European regions. 973-981

Case Studies

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  Erik Vanhatalo, Kerstin Vännman:
  Using factorial design and multivariate analysis when experimenting in a continuous process. 983-995