Quality Control category: 855 books
by Toshio Nakagawa
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Exploring random maintenance models, this book provides an introduction to the implementation of random maintenance, and it is one of the first books to be written on this subject. It aims to help readers learn new techniques for applying random policies to actual reliability models, and it provides...
Active System Control
Design of System Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
This book introduces an approach to active system control design and development to improve the properties of our technological systems. It extends concepts of control and data accumulation by explaining how the system model should be organized to improve the properties of the system under consideration....
by P.K. Kapur, Hoang Pham, A. Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Software Reliability Assessment with OR Applications is a comprehensive guide to software reliability measurement, prediction, and control. It provides a thorough understanding of the field and gives solutions to the decision-making problems that concern software developers, engineers, practitioners,...
by B. Kirwan
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Human error is here to stay. This perhaps obvious statement has a profound implication for society when faced with the types of hazardous system accidents that have occurred over the past three decades. Such accidents have been strongly influenced by human error, yet many system designs in existence...
Computer Vision for X-Ray Testing
Imaging, Systems, Image Databases, and Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This accessible textbook presents an introduction to computer vision algorithms for industrially-relevant applications of X-ray testing. Features: introduces the mathematical background for monocular and multiple view geometry; describes the main techniques for image processing used in X-ray testing;...
The Quick Changeover Playbook
A Step-by-Step Guideline for the Lean Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Complete with color pictures from real quick changeover implementations, The Quick Changeover Playbook provides detailed step-by-step guidelines on how to reduce setup times as well as improve flexibility, product quality, and visual control while reducing lead times and costs.
This new book...
Lean System Management for Leaders
A New Performance Management Toolset
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Richard Mallory introduces a leadership framework for system management, including practical tools and guidance for its use. It enables an agile quality framework throughout an entire organization that will build the kind of "learning organization" championed by Peter M. Senge in his classic...
Nuclear Power Plants: Innovative Technologies for Instrumentation and Control Systems
International Symposium on Software Reliability, Industrial Safety, Cyber Security and Physical Protection of Nuclear Power Plant
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
These proceedings present the latest information on software reliability, industrial safety, cyber security, physical protection, testing and verification for nuclear power plants. The papers were selected from more than 80 submissions and presented at the First International Symposium on Software...
Predictive Maintenance in Dynamic Systems
Advanced Methods, Decision Support Tools and Real-World Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
This book provides a complete picture of several decision support tools for predictive maintenance. These include embedding early anomaly/fault detection, diagnosis and reasoning, remaining useful life prediction (fault prognostics), quality prediction and self-reaction, as well as optimization, control...
by Robin Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
What would happen if everyone in your company followed a disciplined approach to cost reduction? Go ahead -- imagine it. What would it look like? How can it be done?
The answer -- smart cost management.
Effective cost management must start at the design stage. As much as 90-95% of a...
by Ravindra Munje, Akhilanand Tiwari, Balasaheb Patre
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This book examines the different spatial control techniques for regulation of spatial power distribution in advanced heavy water reactors (AHWR). It begins with a review of the literature pertinent to the modeling and control of large reactors. It also offers a nodal-core model based on finite difference...
by Damaraju Raghavarao, Lakshmi Padgett
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
An introduction to state-of-the-art experimental design approaches to better understand and interpret repeated measurement data in cross-over designs.
Repeated Measurements and Cross-Over Designs:
Features the close tie between the design, analysis, and presentation of results
Presents...
Implementing ISO 9001:2015
Thrill your customers and transform your cost base with the new gold standard for business management
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
The latest edition of ISO 9001, published in 2015, is changing the way organisations are run worldwide. No longer is it sufficient simply to check on an organisation’s quality management system: the revision demands that auditors assess the leadership and management of the quality system. This brings...
The Six Sigma Fieldbook
How DuPont Successfully Implemented the Six Sigma Breakthrough Management Strate gy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The authoritative hands-on guide to putting the Six Sigma strategy into practice, written by Mikel Harry, co-founder of the Six Sigma Academy, and Don Linsenmann, the Six Sigma champion who helped to implement Six Sigma across DuPont’s eighteen business divisions.
The ideal companion to Mikel...