Argues that 99.9 per cent quality is not enough. Especially in products in which the safety of the consumer is at stake …, the only acceptable level of quality is total. Consumers are also requiring products to be easy to use. An increasing … number of companies are beginning to realize this is not just part of the manufacturing process but has to start with the …

practices in the manufacturing industries. The objective is to investigate the competitive priorities domains' implementation … and its defining measurement items emphasizing manufacturing industries in the Union Territory of Puducherry. Design …/methodology/approach: The essential information has been gathered from 350 manufacturing firms by utilizing very much stretchered polls; most …

manufacturing firms: just‐in‐time (JIT) production systems and total quality management (TQM). Both evolved in Japan, and the West … applied as an integral part of TQM philosophy. The West, however, deciphered JIT elements of Japanese manufacturing excellence …, philosophical, and implementation perspectives. Theorizes a synergistic interaction between JIT and TQM when they are viewed as an …

, total quality management, and total technology management into a new methodology called total improvement management.  …

environment, and a quality culture to achieve quality management in the R&D departments of manufacturing organizations.  …This research outlines the practices that managers believe are critical for achieving quality management in applied … research and development (e.g. R&D, process development, product development, and engineering) departments of manufacturing …