...Fernando Criado-García; Cayetano Medina-Molina; Antonio L. Leal-Rodríguez; Arturo Calvo-Mora Purpose This study aims to identify and model the conditions that enable or hinder the successful adoption of the technological dimension of Quality 4.0 (Q4.0) in the Spanish aerospace industry...

... approach in which the overall development and assembly of an aircraft is divided among different companies is now common in the global aerospace industry: the responsibility for the detailed design work and manufacturing of major subassemblies of the airplane is attributed to first‐tier suppliers, while...

... of continuous improvement to meet customer expectations advocated by modern quality management and practised by many world‐class organizations. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Aerospace industry Kaizen Quality control Statistical process control ABC Aerospace is a Canadian manufacturing company...