Interrelating quality and reliability in engineering systems

Quality Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Savage, Gordon J ^a   Carr, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conformance; Functional topologies; Linear graph theory; Quality; Reliability

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PRODUCT DESIGN; QUALITY CONTROL; TOPOLOGY;

ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONAL TOPOLOGY;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 34547990188     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/QEN-100106893     Document Type: Article

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