...Salaheldin Ismail Salaheldin; Riyad Eid Purpose The purposes of this paper are to illustrate how the world class manufacturing (WCM) techniques which could be described as outperforming the industry's global best practices have been implemented in the Egyptian manufacturing firms, to identify...

...Zulfiqar Khan; Rajeev K. Bali; Nilmini Wickramasinghe Purpose The last decade has seen much interest in small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) from successive UK Governments highlighting the importance of this sector to the wealth‐creating process of the UK economy. World‐class manufacturing...

... systems, measured in terms of OEE index, by reducing the wastages but also prepares the plant to meet the challenges put forward by globally competing economies to achieve world class manufacturing (WCM) status. Originality/value The paper presents an interesting investigation of TPM implementation...