MRI Process Improvement

Process capability improvement of an engine connecting rod machining process

Statistical process control is an excellent quality assurance tool to improve the quality of manufacture and ultimately scores on end-customer satisfaction. SPC uses process monitoring charts to record the key quality characteristics (KQCs) of the component in manufacture. This paper elaborates on one such KQC of the manufacturing of a connecting rod of an internal combustion engine. Here th...

Process Integration and Improvement

Value-based process improvement

For years, “improving business processes” has been and is the primary business priority of IT. In business process management (BPM), common criteria to evaluate the improvement of a process are time, costs, customer satisfaction and output quality. In contrast, the management of companies focuses on increasing the company’s value, using a value-based management approach, which is hard to be lin...

Improving Software Process Improvement

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 2 / $ 1 7 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 2 I E E E ISO 9000, the Capability Maturity Model,1,2 Spice (Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, also known as ISO/IEC 15504), and Bootstrap to promote mature software development practices. The CMM has been supplemented with the Ideal improvement model, the Personal Software Process, and Team CMM. Most of these frameworks have ...

Dynamic Process Improvement