... works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Total quality management World-class manufacturing...

... implementation model. Lean thinking World-class manufacturing Lean production Since the early 1980s, Japanese organizations have dominated the global industry with the help of innovative quality practices, continuous improvement and lean manufacturing and achieved on-time delivery of products...

... of the organization through the maintenance of equipment. Also, TPM is today regarded as a world class manufacturing (WCM) strategy due its ability to enhance the performance of an organization to sustain in the global competitive scenario (Ahuja and Khamba, 2008 ; Ahuja, 2011). During its evolution, TPM imbibed...

...Jack A. Castle Reviews developments in total quality management (TQM), business process re‐engineering (BPR) and world‐class manufacturing (WCM). Using modern systems, service quality and operations management theory, proposes an integrating model for managerial use which unifies existing...