the relationship between the manufacturer and supplier has changed from one of competition into that of greater cooperation during recent years. the selection and evaluation of suppliers are primary and important issues when an enterprise implements supplier relationship management (srm) and total quality management (tqm). much research indicates that most enterprises tend to evaluate their sup...

Quality costs are the costs associated with preventing, finding, and correcting defective work. Since the main language of corporate management is money, quality-related costs act as means of communication between the staff of quality engineering departments and the company managers. The objective of quality engineering is to minimize the total quality cost across the life of product. Quality c...

Electro Discharge Machining (EDM) is a very efficient machining process widely used in manufacturing components of complicated geometry. Based on its nature, i.e. material removal by electric discharge, the process induces thermal stresses that in turn result in generation of wide spread micro-cracks on the surface of the machined part. In this paper the influence of EDM characteristic paramete...

the optimum fermentation times of black tea manufactured by two systems of orthodox and ctc (cut, tear & curl) were investigated by measuring the quality parameters of black tea, like: theaflavin, thearubigin, highly  polymerized substances and total liquid colour during the fermentation stage. optimum fermentation times from the beginning of fermentation were determined to be 60 min and 15...

Many actual multistage manufacturing processes are not serial structure, but parallel structure or hybrid structure. The quality relationship model for multistage manufacturing process with parallel structure was developed based on state space model. The quality relationship model of multistage manufacturing process with hybrid structure was developed via the hierarchical iteration method based...

In many manufacturing processes, some key process parameters have very strong relationship with the normal or various faulty products of finished products. The abnormal changes of these process parameters could result in various categories of faulty products. In this paper, a data mining model is developed for on-line intelligent monitoring and diagnosis of the manufacturing processes. In the p...

Quality management has often been advocated as being universally applicable to organizations. This is in contrast with the manufacturing strategy contingency approach of Operations Management which advocates internal and external consistency between manufacturing strategy choices. This article empirically investigates whether quality management practices are contingent on a plant’s manufacturin...

A process is a unique combination of manpower, machines, methods and materials in providing a product or service. Process capability indices have been used in the manufacturing industry to provide quantitative measures of process potential and performance. High quality production provides advantages such as cost saving, reduced scrap or remanufacturing, higher yield and increased customer satis...

Today’s business environment has forced manufacturers and plants to produce high-quality products at low cost and the shortest possible delivery time. To cope with this challenge, manufacturing organizations need to optimize the manufacturing and other functions that are in logical association with each other. Therefore, manufacturing system design and supplier selection process are linked toge...