...Pritibhushan Sinha Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a few steps to enhance maintenance effectiveness in practice. Design/methodology/approach – The author reviews the strengths and limitations of different approaches to maintenance management (MM). Some relevant practical...

...Stanislav Karapetrovic; Walter Willborn Quality audits are prominent and proven management tools for assessing compliance and effectiveness of quality systems. They are commonly used in the effort to improve overall business performance. However, similarly to any other physical or conceptual system...

..., employee participation, presence of pitfalls, and the potential benefits in determining the success of a benchmarking project. We identify driving forces, preconditions and effectiveness of implementation as the major facilitators of benchmarking. Also, we establish the importance of these facilitators...

...P. Mandal; K. Shah; P.E.D. Love; H. Li Previous surveys on quality management have shown that increasingly firms in Australia are adopting and implementing quality control tools and a total quality management philosophy. This paper attempts to determine the effectiveness of quality initiatives...