This paper empirically explores the incidence of labor inspections across firms in 72 developing countries. Given the relatively little knowledge on the behavior of labor inspection agencies, our objective is to present a collection of stylized facts on the incidence of enforcement. Our findings consistently show that larger firms are more likely to be inspected than smaller firms. Interestingl...

This paper presents a System Dynamics (SD) model of an assembly system in ramp-up with special focus on inspections. The time in-between product development and stable series production is characterized by dynamically changing conditions referring to the product, processes and the assembly system’s organization. Thus, SD serves as an excellent method to model the system’s behavior within the ra...

Software inspections are a software engineering “best practice” for defect detection and rework reduction. In this paper, we describe an empirical evaluation with using a tool aiming to provide Internet groupware support for distributed software inspections. The tool is based on a restructured inspection process where inspection meetings have the only goal of removing false positives rather tha...

Software inspections have attracted much attention over the last 25 years. It is a method for static analysis of artefacts during software development. However, few studies look at inspections of entity-relationship diagrams (ER-diagrams), and in particular an evaluation of the number of defects, number of false-positives and the types of defects that are found by most reviewers. ER-diagrams ar...

I have been promoting the message in the title of this article since I became head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 2009. Although workplace injury and fatality rates have decreased dramatically since OSHA was created, there remain voices doubting the effectiveness of OSHA’s inspections. Now, there is a substantial body of empirical evidence showing that enforcement has a...

Underwater Vehicles have become more sophisticated, driven by the off-shore sector and scientific community's rapid advancements in underwater operations. Notably, many tasks, including assessment of subsea infrastructure, are performed with assistance Autonomous (AUVs). There been recent breakthroughs Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, notably, Deep Learning (DL) models applications, which wide...

Tecnatom has participated in the qualification of some ultrasonic techniques for the Nuclear Power Plants in Sweden. These qualifications have been performed by means of Technical Justifications and practical trials on test specimens with real defects. Also, ultrasonic simulation software has been used as aid for technical justifications. This paper will describe some of these qualification pro...