International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management: Volume 23 Issue 7
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The application of TQM: organic or mechanistic?
Brad Moore, Alan BrownThis paper aims to examine the application of Total Quality Management (TQM) in five organizations in light of the assumption that its implementation is an ongoing negotiated…
Development of an assessment system for supplier quality management
Kwai Sang Chin, I‐Ki Yeung, Kit Fai PunThis paper seeks to describe the development of a web‐based system for managing and assessing suppliers, presenting the system design and interface of the prototype and discussing…
A rational reconstruction of Six‐Sigma's breakthrough cookbook
Henk de Koning, Jeroen de MastThe purpose of this paper is to develop a consistent and crystallized exposition of Six‐Sigma's methodology for improvement projects, which could serve as a basis for subsequent…
An approach to profit‐maximizing product design on the basis of the platform concept
Hajo Riesenbeck, Andreas Herrmann, Mark Heitman, René AlgesheimerThe purpose of this paper is to show that conjoint measurement has proved to be an effective tool for identifying customer preferences. However, in order to market products and…
A Delphi study on motivation for ISO 9000 and EFQM
Heras Saizarbitoria Iñaki, German Arana Landín, Martí Casadesús FaThe purpose of this paper is to analyse which are the motivations for implementing two of the most important models for Quality Management practice popularized in recent years �…
Use of ISO 9004:2000 and other business excellence tools in Canada
A. Wilcock, S. Karapetrovic, K. Boys, P. PicheThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of business excellence tools, particularly the extent of adoption of the ISO 9004:2000 guideline and respondents' perceptions…
An approach for evaluating preventive maintenance scheduling cost
S.A. Oke, O.E. Charles‐OwabaThis paper aims to revisit the preventive maintenance scheduling literature. The problem to be solved is the simultaneous scheduling of resource‐constrained preventive maintenance…
Reliability considerations in the design of cellular manufacturing systems: A simulated annealing‐based approach
K. Das, R.S. Lashkari, S. SenguptaThe purpose of this paper is to: develop an effective cellular manufacturing system (CMS) design methodology by simultaneously considering system costs and individual machine…

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