In this thesis some aspects of process capability analysis are considered. Process capability analysis deals with how to assess the capability of manufacturing processes. Based on the process capability analysis one can determine how the process performs relative to its product requirements or specifications. An important part within process capability analysis is the use of process capability ...

process capability indices (pcis) can be used as an effective tool for measuring product quality and process performance. in classic quality control there are some limitations which prevent a deep and flexible analysis because of the crisp definition of pca‟s parameters. fuzzy set theory can be used to add more flexibility to process capability analyses. in this study, the fuzzy x ba and mrx ba...

Organizations have increasingly invested money in information technology (IT) in order to improve their agility. It is generally believed that organizations with greater IT investment tend to be more agile to response to environmental changes. However, the issue of whether IT is an enabler or impeder of organizational agility still remains unresolved. Drawing upon resource-based view theory and...

Aimed at overcoming the disadvantages of traditional selective assembly and improving the manufacturing processes of mating parts, a new approach of information-based manufacturing for the mating parts of selective assembly via a coordinated statistical tolerancing (ST) and SPC model is presented. On the basis of studies on quality indices and process capability index (PCI), particularly, the m...

CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504 are two main models for software process assessment and improvement. Both models have staged and continuous representations but these are different. Continuous representations of the models propose the different sets of processes (process areas). The differences of staged representations are even more essential. CMMI staged representation is based on the ideas of a classi...

The present article discusses and presents a new and comprehensive approachaimed at measuring the maturity and quality of software processes. This method has beendesigned on the basis of the Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMM) and theMulti-level Fuzzy Inference Model and is used as a measurement and analysis tool. Among themost important characteristics of this method one can mention si...

This paper builds analytical frameworks in order to examine the role of key features of the underlying learning processes in influencing inter-firm differences in technological capability-accumulation paths in the latecomer context. This relationship is examined in two of the largest steel firms in Brazil over their lifetimes of 40 and 60 years. These issues have been addressed, individually or...

This research details a concept model for describing the business capability of services and business processes from a functional perspective in terms of actions together with related business properties. Furthermore, this work proposes the aggregation, indexing, discovery and design of configurable models for services and business processes using the concept of business capability.