The Product Quality Research Institute, in conjunction with the Food and Drug Administration, conducted an anonymous, electronic survey of the biological products manufacturing industry inspected by Team Biologics, with emphasis in obtaining industry input on inspection and compliance aspects of program operations. Representatives from all of the product-specific manufacturing industries inspec...

We examine the interplay between two important decisions that impact environmental performance in a production setting: inspections performed by a regulator and noncompliance disclosure by a production …rm. To preempt the penalty that will be levied once a compliance violation is discovered in an inspection, the …rm dynamically decides whether it should disclose a random occurrence of noncompli...

Software inspections are a software engineering “best practice” for defect detection and rework reduction. In this paper, we describe our initial 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 to reduce synchronization and coordination problems.

For two decades, software inspections have proven e ective for detecting defects in software. We have reviewed the di erent ways software inspections are done, created a taxonomy of inspection methods, and examined claims about the cost-e ectiveness of di erent methods. We detect a disturbing pattern in the evaluation of inspection methods. Although there is universal agreement on the e ectiven...

We study the case of ‘‘inspect-all’’ policy, using off-line quality inspections to prevent non-conforming items from reaching the final consumer, in domains where an item is rejected upon first ‘‘failure’’ classification. Given a set of inspections with known inspection costs and error probabilities of two types (classifying conforming items as non-conforming and vice versa), the goal is to fin...

California hospital construction projects are large, complex, and extremely difficult projects to execute and navigate successfully. One of the primary reasons for this is the OSHPD permit, review, and inspection process. The quality control rigor imposed by this third party inspection procedure has caused great angst amongst most general contractors and subcontractors. This study examined over...

This paper uses Baudrillard’s orders-of-simulacra theories to investigate the use of inspections at the Hudson’s Bay Company. These inspections were comparable to “modern” internal audits. They were being conducted in 1871, 50 years prior to the accepted date of the arrival of modern internal auditing. Inspections were started as the Hudson’s Bay Company was getting easier to manage, which was ...

The use of software products in today’s world has increased dramatically making quality an important aspect of software development. There is a continuous need to develop processes to control and increase software quality. Software code inspection is one way to pursue this goal. This paper presents a collaborative code inspection process that was designed during an action research study using C...

are interested in prioritising plant inspection in terms of their structural integrity, rather than relying on a traditional time based inspection interval. Acoustic Emission is another tool that can be used to determine the condition of a piece of plant with very minimal interruption in plant processes and significantly reduced costs compared to the alternative NDT inspections methods which re...

This paper presents the major outcomes of utilization smart phone applications in periodical technical inspection process. Road safety is one main topics transportation. Technical defects vehicles can play an important role fatal accidents; therefore, vehicle a common practice amongst many countries across all continents. The authors observed that advancements technologies presented opportunity...