quality inspection is an indispensable part of modern industrial manufacturing. steel as a major industry requires constant surveillance and supervision through its various stages of production. continuous casting is a critical step in the steel manufacturing process in which molten steel is solidified into a semi-finished product called slab. once the slab is released from the casting unit, th...

Background: We could say that external inspections support improvement of healthcare services, but we know little about how. The aim of this study was to increase knowledge about how county governors, as external inspectorates of healthcare services, support and contribute to improvement through external inspections. Methods: This is a comparative case study where data is based on qualitative i...

This paper contributes a valid and reliable measurement instrument in the form of a questionnaire to determine, from a user’s perspective, the usefulness and ease of use of a Web-based Inspection Process Support tool (WIPS) that we developed for inspection data collection. The questionnaire is built upon the work of Fred Davis on perceived usefulness, ease of use, and usage of information techn...

This study proposes a new approach for single-sampling plan by determining sample size and acceptance number. The proposed approach is based on a two-step methodology. In the first step: quality management step, different single sampling inspection plans were generated by running an optimization model for different possible acceptance numbers. While, in the second step: Multi-Attribute Decision...

This paper contributes a valid and reliable measurement instrument in the form of a questionnaire to determine, from a user’s perspective, the usefulness and ease of use of a Web-based Inspection Process Support tool (WIPS) that we developed for inspection data collection. The questionnaire is built upon the work of Fred Davis on perceived usefulness, ease of use, and usage of information techn...

DI Inspection performance 0 0.1 Worse (W) 0.1 – 0.2 Very Low (VL) 0.2 – 0.3 Low (L) 0.3 – 0.4 Normal (N) 0.4 – 0.5 Above Normal (AN) 0.5 – 0.6 High (H) 0.6 – 0.7 Very High (AV) 0.7 – 0.8 Best (B) 0.8 – 0.9 Excellent (E) 0.9 1 Ideal (I) Introduction A defect in software is expensive especially when it dwells and manifests. One of the prevailing challenges in the software industry is therefore th...

We reconsider the Nagelian theory of reduction and argue that, contrary to a widely held view, it is the right analysis of intertheoretic reduction. The alleged difficulties of the theory either vanish upon closer inspection or turn out to be substantive philosophical questions rather than knock-down arguments.

The critical temperatures at which irregularities appear in the relations between vital processes and temperature are not distributed at random. As based upon detailed knowledge of individual cases, and as derived from inspection of the frequencies of occurrence, these critical points are usually found to be in the neighborhood of 4.5 degrees , 9 degrees , 15 degrees , 20 degrees , 25 degrees ,...

nowadays cmm machines are widely used in surface measurement and inspection. as inspection results from cmm machine are obtained by the means of measuring surfaces with direct contact, they are more precise than non-contact method (like optical measurement). however, cmm machines give more reliable and accurate results rather than non-contact methods but also these results come with error when ...