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Benchmarking Maquiladora operations relative to those in the USA
Sameer Prasad, Jasmine Tata, Ron ThornExamines the total quality management (TQM) programmes of Maquiladora operations located on the Mexican border and benchmarks their quality practices vis‐à‐vis those in the USA…
The evolution of strategic quality management
Luís María R. CalingoStrategic quality management represents a state wherein the organization’s total quality management (TQM) system is tightly interwoven with the strategy formulation process…
A quality performance management system for industrial construction engineering projects
T. Hillman Willis, William D. WillisEngineering consulting firms involved in the design and construction of large‐scale industrial plants attempt to find flaws as early as possible in the design process to avoid…
Asymmetric control limits of the x‐bar chart for skewed process distributions
Zhang WuPresents an approach to determine the optimum control limits of the x‐bar chart for skewed process distributions. The approach takes both the control limits of the x‐bar chart and…
A cost optimization model for determining optimal burn‐in times at the module/system level of an electronic product
Themis C. GenadisPresents a cost‐optimization model for determining optimal burn‐in times at the module/system level of an electronic product. Optimum burn‐in is determined as that which will be…
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International Journal of Quality ScienceEditor:
- Professor Jiju Antony