نتایج جستجو برای: continuous process improvement

تعداد نتایج: 1789312  

2009
Ravi Shankar Ankur Agarwal

A few ABET-experienced faculty members typically guide the ABET documentation process. Consequently, this becomes an abstract process that is of little concern to remainder of the faculty members. When one considers that ABET accreditation process can indeed provide an impetus for continuous improvement, which in turn, can make the next ABET accreditation cycle relatively smooth, the department...

Journal: :IJAT 2014
Jelena Kurilova-Palisaitiene Erik Sundin

Lean philosophy, which promotes business excellence through continuous improvement, originates from the Japanese car manufacturer, Toyota’s Production System (TPS). An area where lean has not been fully explored is remanufacturing, a process that brings used products back to useful life. Remanufacturing is often a more complex process than manufacturing due to the uncertainty of process steps/t...

Journal: :American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 1998
D Klein J Motwani B Cole

In recent years, there has been significantly increasing interest in the application of continuous quality improvement (CQI) and total quality management (TQM) in the health care arena. This case analysis is designed to identify and assess the strategies and processes that led to the successful implementation of CQI in the Emergency Care Center at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI.

2006
Felix T.S. Chan H. K. Chan Henry C.W. Lau

Abstract Purpose – To develop a new benchmarking process for continuous improvement against the market leader, and report a case study in the postal industry by employing the proposed benchmarking process. Design/methodology/approach – A double AHP methodology is developed in this paper to divide benchmarking process into two main parts: performance evaluation and continuous improvement. Both q...

1987
Philippe Caloud

This paper provides a contribution to qualitative reasoning for continuous process supervision. Tools for formalizing empirical knowledge of continuous processes and a naive reasoning nat­ urally integrating perception are proposed. A new paradigm emerges : maintenance of a single instantaneous and possibly partial understanding of a physical system during its evolution. This understanding in c...

1997
Thomas Herrmann Thomas Walter

We have a lot of results about participatory design and also an extensive discussion about how to conduct a continuous improvement of business processes with the help of workflow management systems. However, the synthesis of both perspectives is lacking. In the following we make some suggestions on how to overcome this gap. The necessity of participation in the course of business process improv...

2013

• Customer satisfaction: The result of optimizing and aligning business processes to fulfi ll customers’ needs, wants, and desires. • Cost reduction: The result of optimizing operations and supplier processes. • Cycle and fulfi llment time reduction: The result of optimizing the manufacturing and logistics processes. • Quality: The result of optimizing the design, development, and production pr...

Abstract Manufacturing companies must find competitive methods to produce products cheaper, faster and better to continuously satisfy their customers and acquire organizational success. For continuous improvement to be more successful, hybrid programs such as integrated TQM and JIT approaches give better results. As the existing TQM and JIT integrated approaches in literatures are not analogous...

Journal: :IJTM 2003
Harry Boer Frank Gertsen

The new name of the industrial game is continuous innovation. But what is continuous innovation? And how can we manage and organise for it? This article addresses these questions by, first of all, defining continuous innovation as the ability to combine operational effectiveness and strategic flexibility – exploitation and exploration – capabilities that have traditionally been regarded as anti...

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