... measurement Social factors Lean manufacturing Manufacturing strategy Globalization and emerging technologies are having enormous impacts on the manufacturing industry around the world (Achanga et al., 2006). The global competitive scenario experienced by manufacturing organizations...

... with more than 400 observations. A scale effect for quality cost reduction is measured. The results are of great importance to quality management practice and research. Quality management Manufacturing strategy Operations management Quality costing Production economics Therefore, we reassess...

...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...

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