...Filipe M. B. Moraes; Guilherme Tortorella; Andrea Trianni Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how important and correlated organizational capabilities are around the three subject areas of Quality Management ( QM ), Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and industrial decarbonization ( ID...

... of cost deployment, QCD facilitates a proactive and economically sound approach to quality management. It creates a direct, auditable link from a high-level financial metric (e.g. warranty costs) to a specific, addressable root cause in a process (e.g. an inadequate training procedure). This moves...

... is proposed for how to handle tensions during the integration of industry 4.0. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper to introduce paradox theory for quality management, including lean and Six Sigma. The adoption of new digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT...

...Rose Clancy; Ken Bruton; Dominic T.J. O’Sullivan; Aidan J. Cloonan Purpose Quality management practitioners have yet to cease the potential of digitalisation. Furthermore, there is a lack of tools such as frameworks guiding practitioners in the digital transformation of their organisations...

... to for managers and engineers to undertake quality improvement programs. Solenoid valve Six Sigma DMAIC Quality management Process improvement In this era of globalisation and various competition, especially in the automotive industry, an organization succeeds by responding quickly to the needs...

... synergy from stronger collaboration (Vanichchinchai, 2019b ; Flynn et al., 2010). Recently, Vanichchinchai (2019a) found that LM had not only a direct impact on the SCR and supply performance but also an indirect impact on the supply performance through the SCR. Quality management (QM...

... from an AR approach. Thus, both the context and methodological approach contribute to the literature. Quality management SME Action research Quality climate Quality management (QM) in one of its many forms has become an integral part of contemporary business. Since its mainstream...

..., such as Marksberry (2011) , Emiliani (2009) , Coetzee et al. (2019a) and Liker and Hoseus (2008) , have stated that the RFP principle is the key to making the Lean system work. Quality management Lean Craftsmanship Toyota production system Respect for people Takumi 18 06 2020 20...

... at the point of action (Gemba) to facilitate the short-term reactions of lecturers. Evaluation Teaching Quality management Lean six sigma Higher education Continuous improvement Quality management has become of increased importance for higher education institutions (HEIs) in recent years...

... quality management (QM) practices and readiness for change due to implementing new quality initiatives such as lean, six sigma and to determine which dimensions of QM are more important to change efficacy and change commitment. Design/methodology/approach The issues are examined in this study through...

... is necessary to test the propositions included in this paper. Practical implications This study has important implications for academics, practitioners and employers, as it furnishes new theoretical insights to the scarce literature that studies the relationship between quality management practices...

...Pedro Marques; José Requeijo; Pedro Saraiva; Francisco Frazão‐Guerreiro Purpose By exploiting the relationships between Six Sigma and quality management systems (QMS) based on the ISO 9001 standard, this paper proposes a set of guidelines to combine and integrate both approaches in a systematic...

.... Originality/value This paper provides tools for improving the quality and productivity of data flow. Both long‐term and short‐term trends can be observed and yield improvement opportunities. Six Sigma Process management Documentation management Quality management Lean production Manufacturing...

... revealed that: Management's commitment is most important in SME Six sigma implementation. Benefits of Six Sigma have been enjoyed largely by the bigger industrial units and to a relatively lesser extent by the smaller units, i.e. SMEs. Quality management culture has largely been ignored or given less...

...S. Karthi; S.R. Devadasan; R. Murugesh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for integrating Lean Six Sigma DMAIC methodology and belt based training infrastructure with ISO 9001:2008 standard based Quality Management System. Design/methodology/approach A new model called...

... is within the medical school. Human resource management Lean production Six sigma Quality management Universities United States of America A group of interdisciplinary stakeholders consisting of the three “whos” (who is the leader, who is the champion, who are the stakeholders...

... to be perpetuated (Mcadam and Lafferty, 2004). Six Sigma Quality management Quality improvement Brazil What is now called Six Sigma was created at the beginning of 1987, when Bill Smith at the Motorola Company undertook a series of studies on the concepts established by Deming on the variability...

... satisfaction was obtained in Denmark; the USA was ranked the seventh, Sweden the ninth, Great Britain the 15th and Hungary the 21st. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Six sigma Quality management Job satisfaction Sweden Six Sigma was created at Motorola in the 1980s...

... effort that utilizes Six Sigma and DMAIC, DFSS, and Lean can form two of the three basic building blocks of a company‐wide quality management system. Research limitations/implications Some implications for education of future business leaders in a variety of disciplines including engineering...