...) studied the effect of a contract on a supplier’s quality improvement effort and a producer’s inspection policy in both non-cooperative and cooperative games under the assumption of complete information. Lim (2001) extended the work of Reyniers and Tapiero (1995) into a supply chain with incomplete...

... are regarded as good parent rules and are assumed to be good for searching the optimal rules effectively. The GA‐based process knowledge integration framework is used to by formulating better knowledgeable fuzzy rules to provide decision support for quality improvement actions. The optimal combination...

...N. Kathiravan; S.R. Devadasan; M. Muhammed Zakkeer Purpose To design a quality improvement oriented training and education programme (Q_TEPS) for a company manufacturing milk products and to explore its performance using a financial accounting system. Design/methodology/approach A company...

... with the Six Sigma programs of today. Incidentally, “Six Sigma” is a federally registered trademark of Motorola. To illustrate why 99 per cent quality level is not acceptable, consider the following facts (McClusky, 2000 ; Rath and Strong, n.d.): Quality improvement Quality awards ISO 9000 series...

.... This issue is addressed in this paper with the incorporation of various computational intelligence techniques including case‐based reasoning (CBR), object‐oriented technology, online analytical processing (OLAP), fuzzy reasoning and ANNS. Quality assurance Customization Quality improvement...

... issues in industrial experimentation for quality improvement are engineering, not statistical issues. Although statistics are involved, Taguchi Methods are more than the mere mechanical application or extension of statistical procedures. Statisticians and Engineers In quality improvement...

...Cynthia S. McCahon; Margaret J. Rys; Kenneth H. Ward A questionnaire surveying the type of training technique used (lecture, workshop, videotape, role playing, self tutorial (workbook) and self‐tutorial (computer)) for each of the seven steps in the quality improvement problem‐solving process...