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It is a monthly (10 issues) management journal approaching the quality, environmental, occupational health and safety, food safety, information security and product conformity assessment fields.
The magazine contains 65 A4 pages (96 pages for double numbers, 1-2 and 7-8), integrally coloured, and has a special graphical appearance.
During the eighth year of continual issuance, the journal has CNCSIS recognizance, level B+. Therefore, “Quality – access to success” arrived the most important scientific Romanian magazine in management systems field.
It is included into the international data bases of SCOPUS and EBSCO Publishing, Inc.

Peer-review precess
All manuscripts are first reviewed by one member of the editorial board and, second, are submitted to an appropriate reviewer from the Advisory Board or Scientific Council.
During the entire review process, the identity of the reviewer is kept confidential to the author. According to evaluation criteria – Relevance, Originality, Scientific level, Clarity – the reviewer appreciates the article as accepted without changes, accepted with revision, rejected. The Editor-in-Chief has the final decision.

Curent number: QUALITY-access to success, no. 9/2010

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CONTENTS INFO/EVENT • ISO and IEC have developed a Standard for Assessing Competence of Laboratories QUALITY MANAGEMENT • Steliana Cojocariu, Promotion of Protected Areas in Romania through the Project „European Destinations of Excellence” • Dragos Ilie, Mihail Cristian Negulescu, Quality Assessment Indicators in the Relationship between Risk Management and Bank Marketing • Vasile Deac, Impact of Industrial Maintenance in Quality Assurance I. Development and Maintenance Objectives in Quality Assurance Approach • Nicolae Dragulanescu, Remus China, Opportune Corrective Actions and Corrections of Today’s Romanian Approach of Quality Assurance in Education (V) • Ion Naftanaila, Le_AN_A and ... Master Manole – LEAN Manufacturing Evolution 4. Flexibility and Quick Changeover. Part 3. SMED-OTED in Romanian Economic Environment. Implementation of Setup Reduction • Elena Bogan, Ciprian Mihai Candea, Marketing Strategies in Rural Tourism • Tudor Pendiuc, Performance Measurement of Services to citizens of Pitesti City Hall (I) OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT • Roland Iosif Moraru, Gabriel Bujor Babut, Monica Crinela Babut, The Position and the Function of the Unions in Occupational Risk Prevention CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT • Corina Ene, Current Issues on Product’s Conformity Assessment and Conformity Marking at National and European Level KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY • Delia Babeanu, Ilie Tamas, Modern Instruments in on-line Business Environment ACADEMICA • Emil Petrescu, The Investigation of the First Failure in the Reliability Experiments Q CAREERS • Emil Petrescu MANAGER’S LIBRARY • AGIR House of Publishing, Alexandrina Sirbu, Food Commodities. Bread and other bakery products • New ISO Brochure on Economic and social Importance of Reference Materials

Publisher:
Romania Society for Quality Assurance
PDG: Dan Grigore STOICHITOIU

Editorial Board:
Editor-in-Chief: Tudor-George Maruntelu

Senior editor:
Acad. Florin Filip (Vice President of Romanian Academy)
Acad. Grigore Belostecinic (Academy of Science of Moldova)
Prof. Phd. Eng. Ioan C. Bacivarov („Politehnica” University, Bucharest)

Editor: Anca Persoiu
Proof reader: Viorica Burciu                                  
DTP: Sanda Stroescu

Editorial Advisory Board:
Marin Andreica (Trade Academy Satu Mare, Romania), Liana Anica-Popa (ASE Bucharest, Romania), Gabriel Babut (University from Petrosani, Romania), Stelian Brad (Technical University Cluj Napoca, Romania), Florina Bran (ASE Bucharest, Romania), Giuseppe Calabro (Universita degli Studi di Messina, Italy), Grazia Calabro (Universita Degli Studi di Messina, Italy), Andrzej Chochól (Cracow University of Economics, Poland), Fabrizio D’Ascenzo (Degli Studi Di Roma La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy), Cosmin Dobrin (ASE Bucharest, Romania), Nicolae Dragulanescu (Politehnica University, Bucharest, Romania), Dalina Dumitrescu (ASEBUSS Bucharest, Romania), Ildiko Ioan (ASE Bucharest, Romania), Bogdan Ionescu (ASE Bucharest, Romania), Yong-Hak Lee (University of Suwon, Korea), Rudy Kaufmann (University of Nicosia, Cyprus), Alain Kiyindou (University of Strasbourg, France), Jacek Koziol (University of Economics Poznan, Poland), Viorel Lefter (ASE Bucharest, Romania), Liviu Masalar (Liege University, Belgie), Mitsuharu Mitsui (School of Business Administration University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan), Lidia Niculita (Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania), Marieta Olaru (ASE Bucharest, Romania), Bogdan Onete (ASE Bucharest, Romania), Rodica Pamfilie (ASE Bucharest, Romania), Adrian Pana (ASE Bucharest, Romania), Ion Popa (ASE Bucharest, Romania), Sorin Popescu (Technical University Cluj Napoca, Romania), Carmen Valentina Radulescu (ASE Bucharest, Romania), Juozas Ruzevicius (Vilnius University, Lithuania), Alexandru Stamatiu (Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania), Larisa Savga (UCCM University Chisinau, Moldavia Republic), Ion Verboncu (ASE Bucharest, Romania), Daniela Vasiliu (Politehnica University, Bucharest, Romania), Ewa Waginger (Wirtschaftsuniversität, Wien, Austria)

Address:
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telefon: 021.313.63.35, fax: 021.313.23.80

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ISSN: 1582-2559

It is a quarterly magazine, including columns of a high scientific level and practical interest, in the fields of quality and dependability (reliability, availability, maintainability, security), edited in Romanian and in English or French.
The magazine contains 32 A4 pages, in black-and-white, and is distributed to SRAC collaborators and partners from abroad inclusively.

Curent number: Quality Assurance, no. 62 / April - June 2010

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CONTENTS Design of Experiments with a Ranking Response: Analysis of the Result with the Mann-Whitney Statistic   Maurice Pillet, Emmanuel Duclos, Magali Pralus Some Mechanical and Metallurgical Aspects of the Degradation in Interconnects Michel Ignat MEMS and Reliability Titu-Marius, I. Bajenescu Application of Taguchi Method in Optimization of Centrifugal Finishing Process Parameters Suraj S. Rane, A. Srividya, A. K. Verma