The use of software products in today’s world has increased dramatically making quality an important aspect of software development. There is a continuous need to develop processes to control and increase software quality. Software code inspection is one way to pursue this goal. This paper presents a collaborative code inspection process that was designed during an action research study using C...

are interested in prioritising plant inspection in terms of their structural integrity, rather than relying on a traditional time based inspection interval. Acoustic Emission is another tool that can be used to determine the condition of a piece of plant with very minimal interruption in plant processes and significantly reduced costs compared to the alternative NDT inspections methods which re...

As global competition heats up, in order to improve the productivity, simulation-based methods are becoming increasingly dominant in shipyards. The advancement of the CAD-based production management process even allows verification of installability and functionality before beginning the actual construction. However, whether the ship has been exactly constructed as designed can still and only b...

That the documentation of about 10% of deceased patients contained errors at the beginning of the study suggests that clinical staff were paying insufficient attention to the identification and details of deceased patients. Although some of the discrepancies were arguably less important, such as errors in unit number or address, a substantial proportion could have had serious consequences. Thes...

This paper presents the major outcomes of utilization smart phone applications in periodical technical inspection process. Road safety is one main topics transportation. Technical defects vehicles can play an important role fatal accidents; therefore, vehicle a common practice amongst many countries across all continents. The authors observed that advancements technologies presented opportunity...

BACKGROUND External inspections are widely used in health care as a means of improving the quality of care. However, the way external inspections affect the involved organization is poorly understood. A better understanding of these processes is important to improve our understanding of the varying effects of external inspections in different organizations. In turn, this can contribute to the d...

Abstract In this paper, a 3-PRS (prismatic, revolute, and spherical) parallel manipulator for platform stabilization is designed. The main purpose of device to stabilize visual equipment, which placed on top car inspect electrical transmission cables, as part routine maintenance. Due the bulky heavy infrared cameras used during inspections, stabilizer has been designed handle weight camera equi...

Software inspection is one of software engineering’s best practices for detecting and removing defects early in the development process. However, the prevalence of manual activities and face-to-face meetings within software inspections hinder their applicability in the context of global software development, where software engineering activities are spread across multiple sites and even multipl...

Reducing software development cycle time without sacrificing quality is crucial to the continued success of most software development organizations. Software companies are investing time and money in reengineering processes incorporating improvements aimed at reducing their cycle time. Unfortunately, the impact of process improvements on the cycle time of complex software processes is not well ...

In the present work inspectors used Motivational Interviewing (MI) to promote environmentally sustainable behaviour in inspectees. MI is a counselling method with scientific support for various health behaviour changes. Inspectors (n = 32) in four Swedish municipalities received training in MI over a yearlong period. Their MI competency as well as their experience of using MI in routine inspect...