The mechanical properties of steel are the most important factor in the safety of structures that must be stable and appropriate. In order to investigate whether the process capability of steel production meets the quality requirements or not, Sung et al. proposed a procedure to evaluate the production and quality control of steel manufacturing. This evaluation model uses statistics to judge th...

There is a strategic need for a cost-effective method of conducting ISO/IEC 15504 conformant assessments of the capability of software development projects. This applies particularly in the case of SMEs for whom the cost of a full three to four day assessment may be prohibitive. The Rapid Assessment for Process Improvement for software Development (RAPID), has been developed to address this nee...

Assessment-based Software Process Improvement (SPI) programs such as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Bootstrap, and SPICE (ISO/IEC 15504) are based on formal frameworks and promote the use of systematic processes and management practices for software development. These approaches identify best practices for the management of software development and when applied, enable organizations to un...

A measurement control system ensures that measuring equipment and measurement processes are fit for their intended use and its important in achieving product quality objectives. The following paper introduces theoretical foundations for determination of the measuring process capability. Defines three capability indexes in short and recommended use of the Cpm index.

Process capability indices PCIs aim to quantify the capability of a process of quality characteristic X tomeet some specifications that are related to ameasurable characteristic of its produced items. One such quality characteristic is life time of items. The specifications are determined through the lower specification limit L , the upper specification limit U , and the target value T . Maiti ...

Enterprises are confronted with rapidly changing situations in regulations, globalisation, time-to-market pressures and advances in the technology. Management and design of capabilities allowing for more flexibility in business services is one way to tackle these challenges. This requires a shift from a business process oriented to capability management oriented view. In this respect this work ...

This article introduces a set of unified basic concepts for Process Capability Models for the unification, generalization and modeling of views of the structure and elements of relevant models, with more similar granularity of its leaf elements. This set is part of an ongoing research effort to evolve the current Software (and Systems) Process Improvement area towards a Model Driven Process Cap...

Process Capability Indices (PCIs) are appropriate tools in order to measure the inherent capability of a process. In statistical process control, there are some uncertainties in data, such as uncertain specification limits and data. In these cases, fuzzy logic can be employed to manage the uncertainties. There are some researches about fuzzy process capability indices and in this paper; we pres...

This paper reviews the applications of classical multivariate techniques for discrimination, clustering and dimension reduction for time series data. It is shown that the discrimination problem can be seen as a model selection problem. Some of the results obtained in the time domain are reviewed. Clustering time series requires the deÞnition of an adequate metric between univariate time series ...