This paper presents an availability optimization problem of an engineering system assembled in a series configuration which has the redundancy of units and teams of maintenance as optimization parameters. The objective is to reach the maximum value of availability, considering installation and...

At the research and development stage of a product, the manufacturer usually faces the problem of selecting the most reliable design among several competing ones for some parts (or components) of the product in order to enhance the product's quality. It is a great challenge for the manufacturer...

A generic foresight process framework is outlined, based on prior independent work by Mintzberg, Horton and Slaughter. The framework was developed as part of work carried out by the author during the introduction of foresight into the formal strategic planning of a public‐sector university in...

Total quality management (TQM) was deemed by many, a decade or so ago, to be a management movement so significant that it was a paradigm change capable of completely reorienting corporate management responsibilities. It was the answer to the product quality challenge from Japan. It made quality...

Proposes a renewal theory approach to derive the cost model for two dependent processes. Thus, constructs the economic individual X chart and cause‐selecting chart to monitor the two processes. They may be used to maintain the process with minimum cost and effectively distinguish which...