Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 93 Issue 4

Quality Systems at Carello Lighting

George Bohoris, Jonathan Coombes, Tony Hamer, Alan Pickering

Deals with two main areas of the quality system of a world leaderin the vehicle lighting industry: conformance to recognized motorindustry quality standards (such as the Ford Q101…

A Guide to Computer‐based Simulation

Brian Lehaney

Provides an introduction to simulation, and discusses the use of amodern simulation environment. Examples of the uses of simulation arequeuing, scheduling and stock control…

Global Branding: Why and How?

Andreas Kelz, Brian Bloch

Examines the motivation for and the benefits of a global brandingstrategy, and sets out a framework for its implementation. Discusses theinternational environmental circumstances…

Software Testing Goes Underground

Tom Hankinson

At London Underground Ltd (LUL), getting engineers and theirequipment to and from site quickly and safely is a major task for itsengineering safety support division. A huge DEC…

A Productivity Support or Meta‐view of IT Investment: The Need for a Paradigm Shift

Cherian S. Thachenkary

The decline in US productivity growth is now well recognized. Whatis not so obvious is that this is at a time when expenditures forinformation technology (IT) have grown at a…