Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Volume 24

Volume 24, Number 1, February 2008

• Douglas C. Montgomery:
  A Retrospective on Volume 23 of Quality and Reliability Engineering International. 1-2
  

• James M. Gilbert:
  Design of electronic systems based on functional capability. 3-21
  
• Martin Arvidsson, Ida Gremyr:
  Principles of robust design methodology. 23-35
  
• Lorraine Daniels, Connie M. Borror, Richard K. Burdick:
  Confidence intervals for the comparison of variability estimates for a mixed model. 37-53
  
• Changliang Zou, Zhaojun Wang, Fugee Tsung:
  Monitoring autocorrelated processes using variable sampling schemes at fixed-times. 55-69
  
• JrJung Lyu, Ming-Nan Chen:
  Gauge capability studies for attribute data. 71-82
  
• F. K. Wang, S. W. Yang:
  Applying Bootstrap method to the types I-II errors in the measurement system. 83-97
  
• William H. Woodall, Connie M. Borror:
  Some relationships between gage R&R criteria. 99-106
  

• Peter A. Parker, Christine Anderson-Cook, Timothy J. Robinson, Li Liang:
  Robust split-plot designs. 107-121
  

• Patrick O'Connor:
  Introduction to Statistical Engineering. S.J. Morrison (Ed.) 2007 Discovered Authors 209 pages. 123
  
• Patrick O'Connor:
  Design and Analyse Your Experiment with Minitab. Tony Greenfield and Andrew Metcalfe (Eds.) 2007 Hodder Arnold: UK 303 pages. 123
  

Volume 24, Number 2, March 2008

• Aarnout Brombacher:
  Technical versus economical product life; some interesting paradoxes. 125-126
  

• Ashraf A. Almimi, Murat Kulahci, Douglas C. Montgomery:
  Estimation of missing observations in two-level split-plot designs. 127-152
  
• Charles W. Champ, Francisco Aparisi:
  Double sampling hotelling's T² charts. 153-166
  
• Frøydis Bjerke, Øyvind Langsrud, Are Halvor Aastveit:
  Restricted randomization and multiple responses in industrial experiments. 167-181
  
• Marcelo Guimarães Morello, Katia Lucchesi Cavalca, Zilda de Castro Silveira:
  Development and reduction of a fault tree for gearboxes of heavy commercial vehicles based on identification of critical components. 183-198
  
• Enrique Claver, Juan José Tarí:
  The individual effects of total quality management on customers, people and society results and quality performance in SMEs. 199-211
  
• Kerstin Vännman, Murat Kulahci:
  A model-free approach to eliminate autocorrelation when testing for process capability. 213-228
  

• Carlos Adriano Rigo Teixeira, Kátia Lucchesi Cavalca:
  Reliability as an added-value factor in an automotive clutch system. 229-248
  

Volume 24, Number 3, April 2008

• Douglas C. Montgomery:
  Does six sigma stifle innovation? 249
  

• L. K. Chu, A. K. Y. Leung, Domenic Sculli:
  A portfolio approach to maintenance: a case study of a residential estate. 251-264
  
• Bimal P. Nepal, Om P. Yadav, Leslie Monplaisir, Alper Murat:
  A framework for capturing and analyzing the failures due to system/component interactions. 265-289
  
• Jing Li, Jianjun Shi, Devin Satz:
  Modeling and analysis of disease and risk factors through learning Bayesian networks from observational data. 291-302
  
• Richard L. Marcellus:
  Bayesian monitoring to detect a shift in process mean. 303-313
  
• Aris Christou:
  Monte Carlo reliability model for microwave monolithic integrated circuits. 315-329
  
• James R. Simpson, Drew Landman, Rupert Giroux, Michelle Zeisset, Brian Hall, Ray D. Rhew:
  Adapting second-order response surface designs to specific needs. 331-349
  
• Ming-Hsien Caleb Li, Abbas Al-Refaie:
  Improving wooden parts' quality by adopting DMAIC procedure. 351-360
  

• Yuling Cui, A. Wahid Khan:
  A case study: Reliability-based product development and improvement model. 361-373
  

Volume 24, Number 4, June 2008

• Aarnout Brombacher:
  Product quality and over-efficient business processes... 375
  

• Luis A. García-Escudero, Miguel A. Fernández, Oscar Duque, Angel L. Zorita:
  Warning procedures for systems that are improving. 377-387
  
• Haim Shore:
  Comparison of linear predictors obtained by data transformation, generalized linear models (GLM) and response modeling methodology (RMM). 389-399
  
• Alessandra Giovagnoli, Daniele Romano:
  Robust design via simulation experiments: a modified dual response surface approach. 401-416
  
• Laura Ilzarbe, María Jesús Álvarez, Elisabeth Viles, Martín Tanco:
  Practical applications of design of experiments in the field of engineering: a bibliographical review. 417-428
  
• Willis A. Jensen, G. Rex Bryce, Marion R. Reynolds Jr.:
  Design issues for adaptive control charts. 429-445
  
• Sergiy A. Vilkomir, David Lorge Parnas, Veena B. Mendiratta, Eamonn Murphy:
  Computer systems availability evaluation using a segregated failures model. 447-465
  

• Fred Spiring:
  A process capability/customer satisfaction approach to short-run processes. 467-483
  

• Daniel Grove, Felician Campean:
  A comparison of two methods of analysing staircase fatigue test data. 485-497
  

• Don R. Holcomb, Murat Kulahci:
  Call for Papers: 'Quality and Reliability Engineering International is Planning a Special Issue Focusing on Design for Six Sigma'. 499
  

Volume 24, Number 5, August 2008

• Douglas C. Montgomery:
  Applications of design of experiments in engineering. 501-502
  

• Michael D. Joner Jr., William H. Woodall, Marion R. Reynolds Jr., Ronald D. Fricker Jr.:
  A one-sided MEWMA chart for health surveillance. 503-518
  
• Anatoly Lisnianski, Ilia Frenkel, Lev Khvatskin, Yi Ding:
  Maintenance contract assessment for aging systems. 519-531
  
• Johannes Freiesleben:
  Principles of evaluating quality investments. 533-542
  
• Jong In Park, Seong Jun Kim, Myong K. Jeong:
  A new tolerance design method for a secondary rechargeable battery using design of experiments with mixture. 543-556
  
• Lee-Ing Tong, Chung-Ho Wang, Chih-Wei Tsai:
  Robust design for multiple dynamic quality characteristics using data envelopment analysis. 557-571
  
• M. B. Vermaat, R. J. M. M. Does, S. Bisgaard:
  EWMA control chart limits for first- and second-order autoregressive processes. 573-584
  
• Y. L. Lio, Chanseok Park:
  A bootstrap control chart for Birnbaum-Saunders percentiles. 585-600
  
• José Luis Alfaro, Juan Fco. Ortega:
  A robust alternative to Hotelling's T² control chart using trimmed estimators. 601-611
  

• Anderson Mwegerano, Pekka Kytösaho, Timo Liukkonen, Aulis Tuominen:
  Characterization of resolution cycle times of corrective actions in mobile terminals. 613-621
  

• Aarnout Brombacher:
  Life Cycle Reliability Engineering, Guangbin Yang, Chichester, Wiley, 2007, ISBN 978-0471715290. 0471715298. 623
  

Volume 24, Number 6, October 2008

• Joachim Kunert, Claus Weihs:
  Seventh Annual ENBIS Conference. 625
  

• Malgorzata Bogdan, Jayanta K. Ghosh, Malgorzata zak-Szatkowska:
  Selecting explanatory variables with the modified version of the Bayesian information criterion. 627-641
  
• Karsten Röpke, Carsten von Essen:
  DoE in engine development. 643-651
  
• S. Masala, P. Pedone, M. Sandigliano, D. Romano:
  Product/process improvement by integrated physical and simulation experiments: a case study in the textile industry. 653-666
  
• Bernadette Govaerts, Walthère Dewé, Myriam Maumy, Bruno Boulanger:
  Pre-study analytical method validation: comparison of four alternative approaches based on quality-level estimation and tolerance intervals. 667-680
  
• David Ginsbourger, Céline Helbert, Laurent Carraro:
  Discrete mixtures of kernels for Kriging-based optimization. 681-691
  

• Zsolt Robotka, András Zempléni, Csilla Hajas, Csaba Seres, Sándor Balázs:
  Genetic algorithms and grid technologies in clustering, an example: Clustering of images. 693-703
  

• Petra Perner:
  Case-based reasoning and the statistical challenges. 705-720
  
• Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis, Douglas M. Hawkins:
  A Bayesian EWMA method to detect jumps at the start-up phase of a process. 721-735
  
• Roselinde Kessels, Bradley Jones, Peter Goos, Martina Vandebroek:
  Recommendations on the use of Bayesian optimal designs for choice experiments. 737-744
  

Volume 24, Number 7, November 2008

• Om Prakash Yadav, Nipun Choudhary, Canan Bilen:
  Complex system reliability estimation methodology in the absence of failure data. 745-764
  
• Mehdi Ghazanfari, Adel Alaeddini, Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki, Mir-Bahador Aryanezhad:
  A clustering approach to identify the time of a step change in Shewhart control charts. 765-778
  
• Dejan Ivezic, Milos Tanasijevic, Dragan Ignjatovic:
  Fuzzy approach to dependability performance evaluation. 779-792
  
• Nan Chen, Shiyu Zhou, Tzyy-Shuh Chang, Howard Huang:
  Attribute control charts using generalized zero-inflated Poisson distribution. 793-806
  
• Yu-Hung Chien:
  A new warranty strategy: Combining a renewing free-replacement warranty with a rebate policy. 807-815
  
• René Valverde-Ventura, Harriet Black Nembhard:
  Robustness properties of Cuscore statistics for monitoring a nonstationary system. 817-841
  
• Lin Li, Jun Ni:
  Reliability estimation based on operational data of manufacturing systems. 843-854
  

• Yu-Chang Lin, Chao-Yu Chou:
  The variable sampling rate x control charts for monitoring autocorrelated processes. 855-870
  

Volume 24, Number 8, December 2008

• Roderick Thomas:
  Sixth International Conference on Quality Reliability and Maintenance. 871-872
  

• I. Wells, P. C. Charlton, S. Mosey, K. E. Donne:
  Background noise removal in ultrasonic B-scan images using iterative statistical techniques. 873-879
  
• Carlo Ferri, Emmanuel Brousseau:
  Variability in measurements of micro lengths with a white light interferometer. 881-890
  
• Saleh A. Al-Jufout:
  Evaluating the error caused by load ignorance through simulation of short circuit in electrical power systems. 891-895
  
• Kelvin E. Donne, Richard D. Thomas, Christopher Davies, Geoffrey Calvert:
  Photoelastic stress and thermographic measurements of automotive windscreen defects generated by projectile impact. 897-902
  
• K. Pickard, A. Dieter:
  Integrative qualitative quality assurance and reliability prediction over the complete product design cycle. 903-910
  

• Pannapa Changpetch, Harriet Black Nembhard:
  Periodic Cuscore charts to detect step shifts in autocorrelated processes. 911-926
  
• Flavio S. Fogliatto:
  Multiresponse optimization of products with functional quality characteristics. 927-939
  
• P. Castagliola, K. Vännman:
  Average run length when monitoring capability indices using EWMA. 941-955
  
• Emil Bashkansky, Tamar Gadrich:
  Evaluating quality measured on a ternary ordinal scale. 957-971
  
• Martín Tanco, Elisabeth Viles, Laura Ilzarbe, María Jesús Álvarez:
  How is experimentation carried out by companies? A survey of three European regions. 973-981
  

• Erik Vanhatalo, Kerstin Vännman:
  Using factorial design and multivariate analysis when experimenting in a continuous process. 983-995