Purpose: Within the operations management literature, quality management (QM) has been one of the most popular research areas over the last few decades. The impact of QM systems on firm performance has been the subject of constant interest and challenge among researchers. Last such review was...

Purpose: The modern helicopters are designed with maximum serviceability and long life expectancy to ensure minimum life cycle cost. The purpose of this paper is to present a framework to incorporate the customer requirements on reliability and maintainability (R&M) parameters into the design...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the technical efficiency and productivity changes in the integrated steel plants in India over a period of five years. Design/methodology/approach: Since this evaluation of integrated steel plants needs consideration of multiple input and output...

Purpose – Monitoring of a process leading to the detection of faults and determination of the root causes are essential for the production of consistent good quality end products with improved yield. The history of process monitoring fault detection (PMFD) strategies can be traced back to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to build a monitoring scheme in order to detect and subsequently eliminate abnormal behavior of the concerned casting process so as to produce worm wheels with good quality characteristics. Design/methodology/approach – In this a study, a process...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to employ an integrated approach of interpretive ranking process (IRP) and system dynamics (SD) for modelling the key risk factors for a typical construction project. Design/methodology/approach The risk parameters and performance measures applicable in the...