Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as a Tool to Improve Product Quality

Closing gaps: integrating food safety management systems into the veterinary curriculum, as a tool to improve food quality and trade

Make Decision for Selection Enterprise Resource Planning by Defines Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Analytic Network Process (ANP)

The purpose of all service institutions, including banks is to provide appropriate services for the customers' satisfaction. In fact, the key to the success of these organizations relates to the customer-orientation and focus on the quality of services. Since the organizations providing financial service, especially banks operate in an environment with indistinct products, their quality service...

Design Quality: A Key Factor to Improve the Product Quality in International Production Networks

As the result of the broken-up value chain of the world, design becomes an independent commodity. Goods often are designed in one company and produced in another company. Although product is shaped in manufacturing companies of supply chain, design quality is the key sticking-point for product quality. Therefore, finished goods quality lies on the quality of Design-Manufacturing Chain. This pap...

Key performance indicators of emergency department: A literature review

Abstract Aim. The purpose of this study was to investigate the key performance indicators in the emergency department. Background. Health care organizations are confronted with various phenomena such as the rapid promotion of technology, changing demographic factors and changing lifestyles. On the other hand, the health care system has become one of the largest and most expensive industries in ...

An Ontology-Based Data Exploration Tool for Key Performance Indicators

This paper describes the main functionalities of an ontologybased data explorer for Key Performance Indicators (KPI), aimed to support users in the extraction of KPI values from a shared repository. Data produced by partners of a Virtual Enterprise are semantically annotated through a domain ontology in which KPIs are described together with their mathematical formulas. Based on this model and ...