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A study of TQM implementation in Thailand
Ladawan Krasachol, James. D.T. TannockDescribes research which has been carried out using case‐study analysis to investigate how three Thai companies have adopted TQM. As Japanese and US companies are major investors…
Robust regression metamodel for a maintenance float policy
Ifeanyi E. MaduDevelops a robust maintenance float policy, that considers system design parameter settings that not only satisfy the system performance criteria but are also insensitive to…
Holonic model for a quality system in academia
Stanislav Karapetrovic, Walter WillbornThis paper addresses the implementation of ISO 9000 international standards in the university environment, and presents examples of developing a quality system based on these…
Continuous improvement: the ten essential criteria
Mike Kaye, Rosalyn AndersonThis study advocates a planned and integrated approach for achieving continuous improvement in an organisation. A model based on ten essential criteria and supporting elements of…
A generalization of Clements’ method for non‐normal Pearsonian processes with asymmetric tolerances
W.L. Pearn, K.S. Chen, G.H. LinFor non‐normal Pearsonian processes, Clements proposed a method for calculating estimators of the two basic process capability indices Cp and Cpk. Pearn and Kotz applied Clements’…
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- Professor Jiju Antony