Integrating Reengineering with Total Quality could mean the difference between success or failure in your total quality management (TQM) efforts. This groundbreaking book unites total quality and reengineering into an integrated management approach. Most importantly, this new approach impacts an organization's ability to survive and compete in the twenty-first century. Joseph N. Kelada clearly explains new trends in management practices, such as activity-based costing, activity-based management, and mass customization. He integrates them into a unique, global approach that introduces his new idea of the total quality triad and the QVALITY and ACE concepts. This approach will also satisfy the shareholders, customers, and people associated with your organization.
This is one of the greatest challenges of defining quality. To illustrate the point: a
telephone is used primarily for verbal and electronic communication between two
customers; nevertheless, for a telephone company, total quality goes much ...
Tools to Proactively Predict Failure The prediction of failures involves uncertainty, and problems associated with failures are inherently probabilistic. Their solution requires optimal tools to analyze strength of evidence and understand failure events and processes to gauge confidence in a design’s reliability. Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis: A Practical Guide, Second Edition has already introduced a generation of engineers to the practical methods and techniques used in reliability and risk studies applicable to numerous disciplines. Written for both practicing professionals and engineering students, this comprehensive overview of reliability and risk analysis techniques has been fully updated, expanded, and revised to meet current needs. It concentrates on reliability analysis of complex systems and their components and also presents basic risk analysis techniques. Since reliability analysis is a multi-disciplinary subject, the scope of this book applies to most engineering disciplines, and its content is primarily based on the materials used in undergraduate and graduate-level courses at the University of Maryland. This book has greatly benefited from its authors' industrial experience. It balances a mixture of basic theory and applications and presents a large number of examples to illustrate various technical subjects. A proven educational tool, this bestselling classic will serve anyone working on real-life failure analysis and prediction problems.
Mohammad Modarresis a professor of nuclear engineering and reliability engineering. His research areas are system reliability modeling, probabilistic risk
analysis, probabilistic physics of failure, and uncertainty modeling and analysis.
