The purpose of this research work is to ascertain and prioritize the failure modes affecting
the quality of the castings and to practise lean tools to enhance the performance of the …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to validate and assess the performance dimensions
reflecting ISO 9001 benefits in service companies and to determine their relationships …

New product development (NPD) is a term used to describe the complete process of
bringing a new concept to a state of market readiness. Mechatronics based product requires …

Over the past four decades, multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) has become an essential
discipline for operations research. It has been beneficial to address the insufficiency of a …

The paper and board manufacturing process is associated with a number of defects that
hinder the quality of the product produced. This study proposes a methodology to prioritise …

The concept of performance management system (PMS) is fairly new within the South
African public service system. It was introduced into the public sector in 2001 as a tool to …

Scheduling problems are generally treated as NP–complete combinatorial optimization
problems which is a multi-objective and multi constraint one. Repair shop Job sequencing …

In the current scenario, mechatronics-based new product development requires a multi-
disciplinary approach for the interaction of mechanics, electronics and software …

This paper concerns the exploitation of quality function deployment (QFD) technique in total
productive maintenance (TPM) programme. In this direction, this paper points out the …

An integrated optimisation of process input attributes for improved output quality in a steel
rolling mill has been proposed in this study. The intention is to control the process attributes …