In luxury industry and, in particular in watch making, the quality of a surface is fully associated with its visual appearance and represents a corollary to the technical mastery necessary to manufacture valuable products. Traditionally, the inspection of these surfaces is carried out by human experts. Their judgment is influenced by several factors, which are not easy to control and which intr...

The quality aspects of spatial data are very important in the decision-making process. However, the quality inspection of spatial data is still dependent on manual checking, and there is an urgent need to develop an automatic or semi-automatic generic system for spatial data quality inspection. In this paper, we present a general framework that automatically copes with spatial data quality insp...

Machine vision technology improves productivity and quality management and provides a competitive advantage to industries that employ this technology. In this article, visual inspection and quality control theory are combined to develop a robust inspection system with manufacturing applications. The inspection process might be defined as the one used to determine if a given product fulfills a p...

The new production has to undertake a continuous quality improvement due to its major economic involvement; the consequence consists in high performances in the quality assurance. Therefore the author of this work wants to present some concerns in the automatic dimensional inspection systems field. The new production has to undertake a continuous quality improvement due to its major economic in...

Introduction Inspection and external review are increasingly used in healthcare systems throughout the world, in various forms, in pursuit of quality assurance and improvement. Although the experience of systems such as accreditation in those countries which have used them for decades is decidedly mixed, we are nevertheless witnessing what has been described as an explosion in external audit, r...

This paper presents a degradation-based model to jointly determine the optimal burn-in, inspection, and maintenance decisions, based on degradation analysis and an integrated quality and reliability cost model. Degradation modeling plays an important role in reliability prediction and analysis for many highly reliable components and equipment, when the failures can rarely be observed. Unlike tr...