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Benchmarking: Preventive Maintenance Practices at Japanese Transplants
Chen, Frederick - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 11 (1994) 8, pp. 19-26
application of the total productive maintenance concept, kaizen , employee training and employee empowerment. The benchmarking of … Japanese transplants is the key to understanding the role of preventive maintenance in quality manufacturing.  …
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Continuous improvement and facility redesign through the lean DMAIC Six Sigma approach : a final assembly work unit case study from Ohio, USA
Franchetti, Matthew John - In: International journal of six sigma and competitive … 8 (2013/14) 2, pp. 83-94
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Applying Deming to Service
Akande, Adebowale - In: Management Decision 30 (1992) 3
Assesses the current status and future prospects of quality and productivity improvement efforts in business, especially in America. Presents a picture of the state of the art of quality as a way of life in the service sector. Lots of service operations lag behind manufacturers in making quality...
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Industrial engineering the Toyota Production System
Towill, Denis R. - In: Journal of management history : JMH 16 (2010) 3, pp. 327-345
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Involving manufacturing employees in the early stages of product development: a case study from the U.S. automobile industry
Haddad, Carol Joyce - In: New product development and production networks : …, (pp. 289-312). 2000
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Estimating the changes in the distribution of energy efficiency in the US automobile assembly industry
Boyd, Gale A. - In: Energy economics 42 (2014), pp. 81-87
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Inventories and the automobile market
Copeland, Adam; Dunn, Wendy E.; Hall, George J. - In: The Rand journal of economics 42 (2011) 1, pp. 121-149
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Auto pact : creating a borderless North American auto industry, 1960 - 1971
Anastakis, Dimitry - 2005
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Making and selling cars : innovation and change in the U.S. automotive industry
Rubenstein, James M. - 2001
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