Quality and Reliability Engineering International is a journal devoted to practical engineering aspects of quality and reliability. A refereed technical journal published eight times per year, it covers the development and practical application of existing theoretical methods, research and industrial practices. Articles in the journal will be concerned with case studies, tutorial-type reviews and also with applications of new or well-known theory to the solution of actual quality and reliability problems in engineering.
Papers describing the use of mathematical and statistical tools to solve real life industrial problems are encouraged, provided that the emphasis is placed on practical applications and demonstrated case studies.
The scope of the journal is intended to include components, physics of failure, equipment and systems from the fields of electronic, electrical, mechanical and systems engineering. The areas of communications, aerospace, automotive, railways, shipboard equipment, control engineering and consumer products are all covered by the journal.
Quality and reliability of hardware as well as software are covered. Papers on software engineering and its impact on product quality and reliability are encouraged. The journal will also cover the management of quality and reliability in the engineering industry.
Special issues on a variety of key topics are published every year and contribute to the enhancement of Quality and Reliability Engineering International as a major reference in its field.

CHIEF EDITORS
 
Aarnout C. Brombacher
Eindhoven University of Technology
PO Box 513
5600MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Building Laplace 1.137
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven - TU/e
e-mail: A.C.Brombacher@tue.nl
 
Douglas C. Montgomery
Department of Industrial Engineering
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-5906, USA
Tel: +1 480 965 3836
Fax: +1 602 965 8692
e-mail: doug.montgomery@asu.edu
 
Loon Ching Tang
Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
National University of Singapore
1 Engineering Drive 2, Singapore 117576
e-mail: isetlc@nus.edu.sg
 
 
EDITORIAL BOARD
 
Christine M. Anderson-Cook
Statistical Sciences Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory
USA
 
John Andrews
Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre, Faculty of Engineering
University of Nottingham
UK
 
Jiju Antony
Department of Business Management, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
UK
 
Bo Bergman
Department of Total Quality Management, Chalmers University of Technology
Sweden
 
Harriet Black-Nembhard
Department of Industrial Engineering, Penn State University
USA
 
Richard K. Burdick
Amgen Inc.
USA
 
Aris Christou
Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland
USA
 
Frank P.A. Coolen
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University
UK
 
David Edwards
Statistical Sciences and Operations Research, Virginia Commonwealth University
USA
 
Alessandro Di Bucchianico
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology
The Netherlands


Laura Freeman
Virginia Tech Hume Center
USA
 
Thong Ngee Goh
Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, National University of Singapore
Singapore
 
Christian K. Hansen
Department of Mathematics, Eastern Washington University
USA
 
Willis Jensen
W.L. Gore and Associates
USA
 
Jamison V. Kovach
College of Technology, University of Houston
USA
 
Murat Kulahci
Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark
Denmark
 
Jing Li
School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
USA
 
Xiao Liu
University of Arkansas
USA
 
Valter Loll
Loll-Consult
Denmark
 
Mahmoud A. Mahmoud
Department of Statistics, Cairo University
Egypt
 
D. Vernon Morgan
Cardiff School of Engineering, University of Wales
UK
 
Martin Newby
City University, London
UK
 
Leonard A. Perry
Industrial & Systems Engineering Department, University of San Diego
USA
 
Marcus B. Perry
Dept. of Information Systems, Statistics and Management Science, Alabama
USA
 
Alan M. Polansky
Division of Statistics, Northern Illinois University
USA
 
Timothy J. Robinson
Department of Statistics, University of Wyoming
USA
 
Rachel Silvestrini
Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, 
USA
 
James R. Simpson
Department of Industrial Engineering, FAMU - Florida State University
USA
 
Kazuyuki Suzuki
Department of Systems Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo
Japan
 
Murat Caner Testik
Department of Industrial Engineering, Hacettepe University
Turkey
 
Douglas H. Timmer
Manufacturing Engineering, University of Texas-Pan American
USA
 
Fugee Tsung
Department of Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management, HKUST
Hong Kong
 
Thomas Wagner
Infineon Technologies, Munich
Germany
 
Lesley Walls
Department of Management Science, The University of Strathclyde
UK
 
Jin Wang
School of Engineering, Liverpool John Moores University
UK
 
Maria Weese
Information Systems & Analytics, Miami University, 
USA
 
William H. Woodall
Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech
USA
 
Min Xie
Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong
 
WEBSITE SURVEY EDITOR
 
Yuan Lu
Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology
The Netherlands