... for manufacturing SMEs interested in exploiting the digital transition to transform their quality management system into a strategic asset that could strengthen the organization's competitive position. Design/methodology/approach Firstly, an extensive literature review was conducted on the Quality 4.0 topic...

... ). Design/methodology/approach We analyse firm-level cross-sectional data from 1,857 Japanese manufacturers using the Oster model to test three hypotheses: a direct T&D- PQ effect (H1), heterogeneous effects across T&D approaches (H2), and firm size moderation (H3). Findings We confirm...

...Mahadev Laxman Naik; Milind Shrikant Kirkire Purpose This article explores, categorizes and prioritizes the enablers to facilitate the implementation of Maintenance 4.0 in the manufacturing industries, handling the challenges of unplanned downtime and costly breakdowns to improve asset reliability...

... quality management frameworks, signifying a significant evolution in quality control systems. Despite the evident advantages, the practical deployment in the Indian manufacturing sector encounters various obstacles. This research is dedicated to a thorough examination of these impediments...

... rights only Green Lean Six Sigma Small- and medium-sized enterprises Manufacturing Sustainability Framework Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered as the backbone of a nation’s economy. In general, this sector accounts for the largest portion of established enterprises...

...Alireza Shokri; Gendao Li Purpose This study aims at investigating the impact of the perceived importance of critical cultural readiness factors (CRFs) is on perceived importance of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) technical critical success factors (CSFs) in UK manufacturing sector. Design/methodology...

...Ruchi Mishra Purpose The study aims to assess and prioritise the enablers of manufacturing flexibility by evaluating the degree of environmental uncertainty and manufacturing flexibility in an uncertain environment. Design/methodology/approach The study proposes a methodological approach based...

...) for Malaysian manufacturing industry by using structural equation modeling (SEM) approach. Design/methodology/approach The population of the Malaysian manufacturing industry comprised 2,600 manufacturing companies. The unit of analysis is the organization that participated in the survey comprised...

...Abdelhakim Abdelhadi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to implement a strategic decision-making framework by selecting clusters of maintainable machines and scheduling their maintenance as part of a company’s manufacturing strategy. Design/methodology/approach Multi-criteria clustering...

...Mamoun N. Akroush; Abdulkareem Salameh Awwad Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine new product development (NPD) financial performance enablers through examining the roles of NPD capabilities improvement, NPD knowledge sharing and NPD internal learning in manufacturing organisations...

...Richard Scott McLean; Jiju Antony Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review current continuous improvement implementation models and frameworks, and present a new conceptual framework tailored specifically to the needs of UK manufacturing companies. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

...Henrik Eriksson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe differences among public and private, manufacturing and service and SMEs and large organisations regarding the outcome of quality management (QM) practices. Design/methodology/approach This study looks at the scores for different...

... higher at higher levels of quality. The authors propose a modification to the modern representation of the prevention-appraisal-failure model. Practical implications In manufacturing, ever higher levels of quality are associated with significantly lower quality cost. Originality/value Using...

... for measuring the performance of any aviation manufacturing organization in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach – This research is focussed on performance evaluation of aviation manufacturing industry of Pakistan through TQM. Eight well-established dimensions of TQM frequently used by renowned...

...Giovanni Mangiarotti; Cesare A.F. Riillo Purpose – The research empirically investigates the firm-level impact of ISO 9000 certification on innovation propensity. The study aims to distinguish between manufacturing and service sectors and adopts different innovation definitions aimed at capturing...

...Julian D. Booker The improvement of the quality of design and the reduction of failure related cost is seen as a crucial competitive requirement for UK manufacturing industry. To achieve these goals, industry must adopt current methods in support of design for quality (DFQ) for analysing potential...

..., however, tend to be changeable and manufacturing companies have to be flexible so that they can respond to these changes and continuously satisfy customer demands. Therefore a quality assurance system, as a sub‐system of the manufacturing system, must also be designed to cope with these issues of change...

...Vinod Kumar; Todd Boyle This research outlines the practices that managers believe are critical for achieving quality management in applied research and development (e.g. R&D, process development, product development, and engineering) departments of manufacturing companies. Using...

... approximated by uniform distribution is three times higher than that approximated by normal distribution. Apparently, when the quality characteristics of assembled parts are not under normal distributions, possible over or under estimation of the manufacturing costs will occur. The purpose of this study...

... tested and validated using data from 212 Chinese manufacturing companies. Various methods were employed for this test and validation. Comparisons between this instrument and the three other quality management instruments were made. It was concluded finally that the instrument presented in this paper...