... methodology (Hoerl, 2001). Jiju Antony can be contacted at: jiju.antony@strath.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Case study Six Sigma Quality improvement Lean manufacturing Process management Improving the quality of processes and products have become an important...

... manufacturing processes Process management Control systems Quality improvement Fuzzy logic Statistical quality control Tip shear carpet DOE RSM Process control, product control and quality improvement are considerable works in most of the manufacturing industries which are still carried out...

... such weight effect into the L/F manufacturing analysis can achieve the parameter optimization and enhance their quality improvement. Originality/value This paper can be viewed as the first to address the parameter optimization problem for the categorical response with the weight effect consideration...

... quality improvement techniques are becoming obsolete. The model contributed in this paper is found to be useful in achieving continuous quality improvement in AM environment. Hence the model would be a useful technique for today's practitioners whose activities are increasingly focused towards achieving...

...Fiorenzo Franceschini; Maurizio Galetto Learning behaviors related to quality improvement in manufacturing systems (i.e. reduction of defectiveness over production cycles) are widely investigated. Many different approaches have been introduced to describe the link between the learning mechanism...

... for quality improvement”. This study was undertaken to specify the interaction and mutual movement among three groups in the supply chain “Supplier‐Manufacturer‐Customer” and integrate the results from four factors: incoming inspection, line reject performance, supplier service quality and product reliability...