The process of vehicle inspection in the United Arab Emirates has been investigated in this study using multiple decision-making criteria. The objective was to assess the current situation and set out recommendations to improve vehicle inspection procedure. Inspected mechanical and environmental parameters have been compared among different inspection centers in the country. The assessment incl...

Software inspections, which were originally developed by Michael Fagan in 1976, are an important means to verify and achieve sufficient quality in many software projects today. Since Fagan’s initial work, the importance of software inspections has been long recognized by software developers and many organizations. Various proposals have been made by researchers in the hope of improving Fagan’s ...

Software development is constrained by time, cost and quality requirements. The problems of managing software projects have been well defined by the software engineering community. Software defects are one of the most influential factors affecting the success of a software project. Software inspection has become an essential solution for managing software defects. A variety of software inspecti...

In this paper, the problem of print quality inspection on pharmaceutical capsules is addressed. Good print quality, a property that makes the print legible, is of utmost importance for identification and preventing mix-ups among various types of capsules. Spatial distortion obtained at image formation process, where a 3-D surface gets projected onto a 2-D image plane, causes print appearance va...

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...

Industrial inspection is one of the crucial factors to ensure quality of product before reach the market. The inspection tasks can be done by using visual system such as human vision or machine vision or combination of both. In this paper, we describe a system that capable to control quality of press part product. The scheme is based on CMOS web-camera (webcam) in a production line. The main ob...

This paper introduces the surface inspection system for wire rod in steel-making industry. The inspection system is based on vision technology. We have developed illumination system with blue LED lighting sources to get best quality of surface image. And we have implemented defect detection algorithms based on block sigma transform which can recognize wire rod objects and segments defect candid...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to thank the members of the Study Advisory Committee (SAC) for their support and insightful feedback during the course of this project: The authors are also grateful of the following individuals for their help during the site visits and the data collection phases: The Joint Transportation Research Program serves as a vehicle for INDOT collaboration with hi...