1: Results -- Central results of the sector studies on the metalworking and food industries -- Guidelines for quality-oriented personnel development in small and medium-sized enterprises -- Recommendations for the vocational training in Europe -- 2: Scientific Contributions -- Quality systems...

Improving the quality of products and manufacturing processes at low cost is an economic and technological challenge to industrial engineers and managers alike. In today's business world, the implementation of experimental design techniques often falls short of the mark due to a lack of...

Many new methods for measuring the quality of health care have been devised since 1970. For the past ten years, the health care field has been struggling to integrate industrial models into its quality improvement systems. In order to judge whether regulation has evolved in tandem with these...