IIE Transactions articles from March 2007

IIE Transactions archives from March 2007

A statistical process control approach to business activity monitoring.
March 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Activity monitoring is an automated process that applies operational intelligence and application integration technologies to alert individuals to changes in complex systems that may require action (see Fawcett and Provost...

Pattern matching for variation-source identification in manufacturing processes in the presence of unstructured noise.
March 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Process monitoring and control technology, which focuses on the detection, identification, diagnosis, and elimination of process faults, can help a company maintain on edge in today's highly competative market place. This...

Element substitution algorithm for general two-terminal network reliability analyses.
March 1, 2007... 1. Introduction The problem of obtaining the reliability of networks has been extensively researched during the past decades. Within this area of research, one of the classical network reliability problems is known as the 2-Terminal...

Homogeneous redundancy optimization in multi-state series-parallel systems: a heuristic approach.
March 1, 2007... 1. Introduction The redundancy optimization problem is a classical problem that has attracted considerable attention from the research community. It has been solved by using optimization approaches and techniques such as dynamic...

Variable EWMA run-to-run controller for drifted processes.(exponentially weighted moving average)
March 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Engineering Process Control (EPC) are two widely used process control techniques. The goal of both of these techniques is to control a process so that it meets a given target with a...

Failure event prediction using the Cox proportional hazard model driven by frequent failure signatures.
March 1, 2007... 1. Introduction The method of servicing equipment (e.g., medical equipment, photocopy machines and computer hardware) is moving from reactive firefighting to preventive (proactive) maintenance. The reactive servicing of equipment is...

A distribution-free tabular CUSUM chart for autocorrelated data.
March 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Given a stochastic process to be monitored, a Statistical Process Control (SPC) chart is used to detect any practically significant shift from the in-control status for that process, where the in-control status is defined...

Reliability Engineering: Probabilistic Models and Maintenance Methods.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Reliability Engineering: Probabilistic Models and Maintenance Methods. Joel Nachlas Taylor & Francis, 2005, ISBN 0-8493-3598-1 As the author says in the Introduction to Reliability Engineering: Probabilistic Models and Maintenance...

Six Sigma for Growth: Driving Profitable Top-Line Results.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Six Sigma for Growth: Driving Profitable Top-Line Results. Edward Abramowich John Wiley & Sons, 2005, 278 pages, ISBN 0-470-82133-7 Six Sigma for Growth by Edward Abramowich is a welcome addition to the existing literature on Six...

Statistics for Microarrays: Design, Analysis and Inference.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Statistics for Microarrays: Design, Analysis and Inference Ernst Wit and John McClure John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2004; xii + 265 pp., ISBN 0-470-84993-2 In Statistics for Microarrays: Design, Analysis and Inference, Wit...