In this paper, absorbing Markov chain models are developed to determine the optimum process mean levels for both a single-stage and a serial two-stage production system in which items are inspected for conformity with their specification limits. When the value of the quality characteristic of an item falls below a lower limit, the item is scrapped. If it falls above an upper limit, the item is ...

Increased competition on the global market forces producers to follow policies leading to finite production runs. This situation requires implementation of a new type of inspection procedures with the aim to improve or sustain production quality levels. One of the most important aspects in the design of inspection processes is the specification of inspection intervals. This paper provides a sim...

This paper outlines the quality inspection strategies in a supplier–buyer supply chain under a customer return policy. This paper primarily focuses on product quality and quality inspection techniques to maximize the actors’ and supply chain’s profits using game theory approach. The supplier–buyer setup is described in terms of textile manufacturer–retailer supply chain where quality inspection...

Recently the industries provide visual inspection processes in the plants for keeping and guaranteeing product quality. Many visual inspection processes are normally operated by the manual visual inspection. The results of the manual visual inspection are often unstable because the results are depended on the inspection worker skill. Currently the automated visual inspection technologies are ge...

Software inspection is a widely acknowledged effective quality improvement method in software development by detecting defects involved in software artifacts and removing them. In research on software inspection, constructing computer supported inspection systems is a major topic in the field. A lot of systems have been reported. However few inspection support systems for model diagrams, especi...

Optimal inspection and maintenance of complex systems in modern industry is important for safety and economic reasons. With appropriate statistical modelling, the utilisation of inspection resources and quality of inferences can be greatly improved. Modelling and inspection of a full-scale industrial furnace subject to corrosion is considered. A suitable Bayesian spatio-temporal dynamic linear ...

Nondestructive testing (NDT) is an advanced and commonly used technique in tunnel engineering quality inspection. To achieve good application of nondestructive technology, its main inspection strategy analyzed, including the significance applying technology inspection, applied test analysis, analysis strategy. The analyses this paper are done hopes providing scientific reference for utilization...

Quality has been a major driving factor for software consumption. This has been seriously compromised among software developers especially in small scale software outfits in developing countries such as Nigeria. The Software development process in these software houses needs to be re-engineered in order to improve the quality of software being produced and to meet the global demand on quality s...

Fast Method for Searching Image Quality Inspection Procedures Kousuke HARA Minoru AKUTSU Tetsuya OOTANI and Takashi OMORI †Instrument and Control Research Center, Yokogawa Electric Corporation 2-9-32 Nakacho Musashino-shi, Tokyo, 180-8750 Japan ‡Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University 13-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8628 Japan E-mail: †{Kousuke.Hara, Minoru.Akutsu, Tetsuya.Ootani}@jp.yo...