...Guilherme Brittes Benitez; Diego Biondo; João Felipe Capioto Seelent; Dalton Alexandre Kai Purpose This study aims to investigate the role of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies (base and front-end) on the deployment of Lean bundles (just-in-time, total productive maintenance and total quality...

... of technology, lean, quality and human resource practices. Findings The four manufacturing practices positively enhance performance: quality and lean practices produce the most consistent effects, while technology and human resource practices turn more beneficial in the latest sample. Furthermore...

...Guilherme Tortorella; Flavio S. Fogliatto; Maneesh Kumar; Vicente Gonzalez; Matthew Pepper Purpose This paper aims to examine the moderating effect of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies on the relationship between socio-technical (ST) practices and workers' health, quality and productivity...

...Samuel Famiyeh; Ebenezer Adaku; Kwasi Amoako-Gyampah; Disraeli Asante-Darko; Charles Teye Amoatey Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between environmental management practices (EMP) and competitive operational performance with respect to reduced cost, improved quality...

... that all the TPM practices have positive and significant relationship with manufacturing performance and significantly improve cost effectiveness, product quality, on-time delivery and volume flexibility. Practical implications – The study presented in this paper offers academics and practitioners...

... stoppages and loss of quality due to decrease in the productivity would be prevented. Practical implications – This paper demonstrates to managers the potential benefits of maintenance policy in terms of productivity, quality and profitability. In this regard, this paper builds on a premise...

...Mattias Gustavsson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of manufacturing planning and control (MPC) process integration on information quality (IQ). Design/methodology/approach Two case studies are conducted in the aerospace industry. The paper examines the influence...

...Ashutosh Tiwari; Chris Turner; Peter Sackett Purpose The techniques that help organisations implement leading edge cost and quality practices in manufacturing operations management are typically disparate and generic in nature. There is a need to identify integrated practices at the right level...

...Gilberto Santos; Joaquim Barbosa Purpose Castings defects are usually easy to characterize, but to eradicate them can be a difficult task. In many cases, defects are caused by the combined effect of different factors, whose identification is often difficult. Besides, the real non‐quality costs...

... to feature characteristics, normally associated with tolerance limits (e.g. fillet with a radius of 2.5±0.5 mm). As long as these limits are not exceeded, the features are of conforming quality. If any of the tolerance limits on any feature are exceeded the component is non‐conforming to the specification...

...David Bennett; Hongyu Zhao Impressions about product quality and reliability can depend as much on perceptions about brands and country of origin as on data regarding performance and failure. This has implications for companies in developing countries that need to compete with importers...

... risks of strategic or structural nature, and cultural or behavioural nature, explains the lack of quality in operations. In order better to manage the implications of IT evolution, i.e. their downstream incidences, it is necessary to have steered upstream in defining the objectives, analysing the needs...

... who have the real ability to achieve excellence within the organisation through increasing quality, effectiveness and cooperation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 The Taylor method is one of management by specialists … All workers have to do is simply do what they are told to do...

... on his successor, Sun Pin, are limited particularly to the area of applying his art of warfare in gaining strategic advantages and transforming business crisis into opportunities. While various business and quality management models at national level have been established by various countries...

... of empowerment. Individuals who are comprehensively trained in the application of quality and empowerment activities, by participating in teams and the general work process. They are expected to transfer the empowerment ideology, knowledge and skill, to others. Executive walkthroughs. Top...

...Majorkumar Govindaraju; Arunkumar Pennathur; Anil Mital In the increasingly competitive global economy, survival of an industry depends on catering to customer needs by quickly producing quality products and providing quality service at an affordable price. In production, or in service, ergonomic...

... $2.473 million and 30 full‐time employees. ISO 9000 certification costs were less than $6,000. Firm B‐1 reported that obtaining ISO 9000 certification was slightly important to its competitive position; none of its competitors are certified. The factory manager has overall responsibility for quality...

.... and SEC’s suppliers. Specifically the paper examines the two related questions: first, are there differences in quality definitions between levels of a supply chain? Second, does the higher level entity in the supply chain understand the quality requirements imposed on their suppliers? Examined and written...

... to be considered for large layout problems since optimal algorithms are computationally infeasible. Therefore, it is important to set criteria to measure the quality of various solutions. In this paper, a new measure of solution quality, the probability of superiority, is offered for the determination...

... to evaluate a multi‐variant system based on the data collected from, e.g. maintenance, quality, production, etc. In this paper we discussed different approaches of how to keep availability, quality and productivity at high levels. Also, we proposed a new approach for an expert system concept, which...