American industry the need for ever higher levels of performance. And, similar forces are necessitating improved performance in … cost, schedule and product performance that characterize the modern Quality ethic. This paper discusses the manager's role …

-term performance of the WIPP. This risk-based Performance Assessment (PA) is accomplished in part through the use of numerous …

without costly upgrades. Of course these gains must be achieved without impacting operational performance. Downsizing is also … a context-dependent model that provides a capability to anticipate impending failures and determine machine performance … over a protracted period of time. This prognostic capability links operational requirements to an economic performance …

are predicated to varying degrees on the reliable and correct performance of this software. Consequently, software quality …

managers). The performance of alternative designs and courses of action must be assessed with respect to multiple performance … available that address specific performance issues during various stages of a building's life cycle. Some of these tools support … collaboration by providing means for synchronous and asynchronous communications, performance simulations, and monitoring of a …

) that achieves the lowest total project cost for a given probability of success while meeting technical performance and …

likely due to the lack of comprehensive error and performance shaping factor taxonomies, and the limited data available on … Contributing Influences for Error (FRANCIE) with a taxonomy for airline maintenance tasks. The assignment of performance shaping … factors to generic errors by experts proved to be valuable to qualitative modeling. Performance shaping factors and error …

--albeit imprecise--goal in all these activities is to ''optimize performance,'' which is to have maximal success/profit/return with … itself to the overall performance and affordability. This is not unreasonable, since oftentimes major upgrades on some …