conclusions about the effect of reduced inventories on process reliability, product quality, and cost. …

of medical device manufacturers to examine the effect of firm characteristics on the costs of poor quality. Third, in an …Medical devices play an increasingly significant role in the delivery of health care today. However, persistent quality … level, the market penalties for medical device recalls are not significant, i.e., at the aggregate level, the costs of poor …

placement (30.4 percent). Greater than 95 percent of operations considered each of the following quality assurance programs very …

This report provides a new economic approach and methodology for analyzing nutritional quality change in manufacturers …. Two approaches were used to analyze nutritional quality change in product offerings. The first approach uses a composite … nutritional index to measure changes. A second approach, nutrient-by-nutrient analysis, was also used to measure quality change …