ABSTRACT
Reliability and Quality Control are quite related areas, as they both are focused on monitoring and improving systems and processes. In the last decades, several proposals of integrating a Statistical Process Control approach to modeling and solving Reliability, Safety and Maintenance issues have been presented (Tagaras 1988, Rahim & Banerjee 1993, Ben-Daya & Duffuaa 1995, Cheng et al., 1997, Katter Jr et al., 1998, Rahim & Ben-Daya 1998, Ben-Daya 1999, Cassady et al., 2000, Cheng et al., 2000, Lee & Rahim 2001, Lam & Rahim 2002, Xie et al., 2002, Chan 2003, Linderman et al., 2005, Huang et al., 2005, Zhou & Zhu 2007, Yeung et al., 2008).
