**Meet the editor**

Mohammad Saber Fallah Nezhad is Assistant Professor at Yazd University, Iran. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, all in Industrial Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Also he has been a visiting researcher in Karlsruhe University, Germany. He has published more than 37 research papers in national and international journals and is author of

two books. Also, he has been awarded a Silver medal in 16th National Mathematics Olympiad in Iran and he has bens ranked 1st in the graduate national university comprehensive exam in System Management in Iran. He has been ranked 47th among all high school graduates in Iran. His areas of interest include: reliability, quality control, quality engineering and operations research

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Statistical Quality Control 1**

Chapter 1 **Toward a Better Quality Control of Weather Data 3**

Chapter 2 **Applications of Control Charts Arima for Autocorrelated Data 31**

**Section 2 Total Quality Management 77**

**in Turkey 79** Mana Sezdi

Andrey Rostovtsev

Chapter 3 **New Models of Acceptance Sampling Plans 55** Mohammad Saber Fallah Nezhad

Chapter 4 **Accreditation of Biomedical Calibration Measurements**

Chapter 5 **Formation of Product Properties Determining Its Quality in a Multi-Operation Technological Process 101**

Kenneth Hubbard, Jinsheng You and Martha Shulski

Suzana Leitão Russo, Maria Emilia Camargo and Jonas Pedro Fabris
