... important. Finally, clusters of firms are analyzed to establish their profile in relation to these groups, using cluster analysis. With regard to the literature that focuses on an analysis of the non-financial impact of EFQM implementation, this highlights the fact that EFQM enables organizations...

... 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Cluster analysis Electric traction system of railway Escalator Recurrent failures Reliability of repairable system Renewal process A variety of statistical methodologies have been...

... Transfer processes Cluster analysis Europe The ISO 9000 certification system for firm quality was introduced in 1987, and by the end of 2007, more than 950,000 ISO 9000 certificates had been issued in 175 countries and economies (ISO, 2008). So far, ISO 9000 quality standards have been the most...

... clustered defects. A case study is also evaluated, indicating that the proposed method produces satisfactory control charts for the defect data in IC fabrication. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Control charts Cluster analysis Integrated circuits Process efficiency Integrated circuit (IC...

... Cluster analysis Control charts Mathematics Process control Statistical process control Statistics The deviation of a process from its controlled status may be incurred by certain different assignable causes. In an example of component machining, the process under consideration is to work out...