Reliability, quality control, and simulation.

A. S. Cahn

Expert InsightsPublished 1959

An examination of the reliability, quality control, and simulation factors affecting an enterprise to determine the interrelationships among the various parameters and the cost and operational effectiveness of the given system. It is concluded that (1) finding the value of reliability or of quality control is complex; (2) simulation helps not only to indicate the complete relationship of reliability and quality control to the specific objectives of an enterprise, but also to obtain the probable reliability of a proposed system; (3) a useful simulation of any large complex enterprise must be carefully designed; and (4) one useful method for designing such a simulation is to use simultaneously a man-machine model and an all-machine model.

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Cahn, A. S., Reliability, quality control, and simulation. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1959. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P1623.html.
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