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Factors affecting the implementation and success of TQM
Robin Mann, Dennis KehoeThe importance of tailoring TQM to the specific needs oforganizations is well known. Shows the findings of a research programmethat investigated which organizational factors are…
Human reliability data requirements
Sally Taylor‐Adams, Barry KirwanFor many years there has been increasing concern about the effectsof human error in complex system safety and reliability. This concernhas been increased owing to accidents such…
Teaching experimental design techniques to engineers
Robert RaesideIt is widely recognized that the use of statistical experimentaldesign techniques, including those advanced by Taguchi, can, whenapplied correctly, lead to a deep understanding of…
Process shift modes
Zhang WuThe mean shifts (or range shifts, standard deviation shifts) of aprocess may be classified into a set of modes (or classifications), eachof which is characterized by the shift…
Selection of TQM pilot projects using an MCDM approach
Sanjay L. Ahire, Dharam S. RanaTotal quality management (TQM) has been perceived as a competitivestrategy to improve continually the quality of products and processes.However, the initial stages of TQM…
Economic statistical np‐control chart designs based on fuzzy optimization
Reay‐Chen Wang, Chung‐Ho ChenConsiders the problem of determining economic statistical np‐control chart designs under the fuzzy environment of closelysatisfying type I and II errors. Goes on to model the…
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- Professor Jiju Antony