Total quality management (TQM) has been widely considered as the strategic, tactical and operational tool in the quality management research field. It is one of the most applied and well accepted approaches for business excellence besides Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), Six Sigma, Just-in-Time (JIT), and Supply Chain Management (SCM) approaches. There is a great enthusiasm among manufactu...

In manufacturing, great gains in performance have been realized by a new production philosophy, which leads to "lean production". This new production philosophy is a generalization of such partial approaches as JIT, TQM, time-based competition, and concurrent engineering. In construction, lean production is little known. The concepts, principles and methods of lean production are reviewed, and ...

Unless your organization is unique, it’s been under assault over the past fifteen years from intense competitive pressures. In response, you and others have ordered up a veritable alphabet soup of improvement initiatives: QCC, STS, TQC, TQM, SPC, JIT, DOE, ERP — does it ever end? Or you’ve turned to the “non-alphabetized” menu: benchmarking; reengineering; cycle-time reduction; supply chain man...

The primary consequence of just-in-time (JIT) production is reduction of inventory. The associated benefit is (a) improved cashflow due to less financial resource tied up in inventory, and (b) less storage space required hence more productive plant area. Coupled with lean production and total quality management (TQM), it may also be possible to (c) improve worker productivity, (d) improve produ...

Suggests that the progress made towards the acquisition of quality through TQM, ISO 9000, BPR, BSCs (balanced score cards) and all the other related TLAs (three letter acronyms) and techniques is in danger of consuming itself through a process in which the goal is displaced by the means: quality by measurement. This form of development, defeat snatched from the jaws of victory, failure construc...

La presión global para ser una empresa eficiente y generar ventaja competitiva, se ha enfocado en mejorar la relación entre las estrategias operativas como gestión de calidad total (TQM), justo a tiempo (JIT) diseño Nuevos productos, mediante variable mediadora, cadena suministros, su con el desempeño operacional. Esta investigación está enfocada al análisis del marco teórico más significativo ...

This paper reviews the Operational Improvement approaches of the last 30 years in Australia. They have included Group Technology, ERP, JIT, WCM, BP-R, TQM and Now Lean Manufacturing. It identifies what each approach consists of, the initial launch, implementation efforts and results. The paper finds that only the WCM program has had any real success. The reasons for the high failure rate for th...

Although change management panaceas have been widely discussed in the business and management literature for several decades, not many publications address the role of simulation modeling in supporting these panaceas. This paper investigates four management innovation and change programs: TQM, JIT, BPR and Process Innovation and discusses how simulation modeling could increase their effectivene...

When it comes to technology use, small manufacturers are very significantly different from larger manufacturers. In this study, small manufacturers are defined as plants employing less than 100 employees and larger plants are defined as those employing more than 99 employees. This paper is based on the responses of 1042 manufacturing plants belonging to industrial classifications SIC 34 to 38 r...