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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Quality management systems"”.
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Determining continual improvement process methods within quality management systems
… organizations to actively define and implement quality management systems, which includes active participation in continual improvement efforts. Interpretations and practices vary on implementation methodology. Traditional views of quality do not integrate the technical disciplines into a …
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An investigation into the impact of quality management systems upon construction productivity at the site level
… with an investigation Into the impact of Quality Management systems upon construction productivity. The main aim of the study was to establish a relationship between the Implementation of formal quality systems and improvement in productivity at the site level. The main objectives of the …
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High performance quality management systems and work-related outcomes: Exploring the role of audit readiness and documented procedures effectiveness
<p>This study investigates a comprehensive quality management system (QMS) and its influence on multiple work-related outcomes. It examines certified quality systems used in the automotive industry to test whether QMS audit readiness mediates the relationship between quality factors and outcomes. A …
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A quality improvement plan for a technical department within a petrochemical company
Quality improvement initiatives have been implemented by various manufacturing companies. Through initiatives such as international standards organization, lean production, total quality management systems and six sigma, quality has improved dramatically while optimizing production and costs. This …
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Implementation and effectiveness of the ISO 9001 quality management system in the construction sector in the UK and Ireland
… UK and Ireland has long suffered from endemic quality failures. Formal quality management systems have been proposed as a tool to improve construction delivery. The ISO 9001 standard is the result of research and incremental development. If implemented fully it should lead to continual quality …
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Disputes and conflicts within construction contracts in the Icelandic construction industry
… is the requirement for contractors to obtain a quality management system. Disputes and conflicts are to be recorded in these quality management systems. In this thesis, structured interviews were conducted with participants from construction contractor firms in Iceland. The main goal of the …
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Quality Management Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization
This study examines the evolution of Quality Management Systems (QMS) into Quality 4.0, which integrates digital technologies like AI, IoT, and big data analytics. Using bibliometric analysis of research from 2020 to 2025, data from Scopus was analyzed with VOSviewer and CiteSpace to identify key …
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Designing a state-of-the-science, accredited, commercially-successful biorepository utilizing ISO:9001(2008) quality management system requirements to construct the framework
… as the complexities, financial pressure, and quality issues biorepositories face continue to unfold, it is imperative to explore unmet needs researchers may have for biorepository services as well as evaluate the commercial potential, funding, and competitiveness of a new biorepository. With …
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Quality management in the public building construction process
The poor quality of public buildings in the Botswana construction industry has been surrounded by controversy and strongly held opinions. The work reported here attempts to indicate some salient issues affecting the quality management system, with particular reference to the construction phase. …
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Enabling Proactive Quality in Commercial Airplanes using Natural Language Processing
Quality management systems traditionally draw insight from structured, often numerical, sources of data; unstructured, free-text representations of quality data are less frequently employed despite having high informational value, and often require additional human effort to prepare their contents …
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The effectiveness of quality control systems in Australia and Japan : a comparative analysis
This thesis undertakes a comparative analysis of quality control practices in Japan and Australia in the 1980s and the 1990s. The methodology employed consists of two main components. The first is a comparative analysis of the literature in Japanese and in English, to highlight the differences in …
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Client perceived value in quality consultancy relationships
… approach to the theory and practice of quality management in professional services. A value generation system and practitioner tools are proposed as a result of a synthesis of literature from multiple disciplines, grounded in empirical research. The methodology involves an analysis of …
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The applicability of quality management to the field of web-enhanced learning in higher education institutions
Quality assurance in higher education and E-learning are current and topical, yet seldom overlap (Arbaugh, J. B., 2004). Higher education institutions are facing pressure to become more focused on the needs and expectations of clients and to compete in the global environment, especially given the …
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Anwendungsorientierte Konzeption zur internen Qualitätssteuerung der Klassifikationen KTL und ICF in der medizinischen Rehabilitation
… requirements of legislators and cost bearers for quality management are at a high level. The Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) supports this with its quality assurance measures, as does the World Health Organization (WHO) with guidelines anent certified quality management systems. In this study, a …
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Quality systems and and service delivery in the UK leisure industry
Quality management systems have recently been implemented in all sectors of the UK leisure industry. The author has attempted to discover whether or not their introduction has improved service delivery to external customers. The research project was developed so that the SERVQUAL instrument, …
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Quality of service technologies for multimedia applications in next generation networks
… QoS levels, these architectures require management systems to efficiently perform quality guarantees and network resource utilization. These issues have been addressed in this thesis. DiffServ-aware Traffic Engineering (DS-TE) has been considered as reference architecture for the …
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The implementation of total quality management in China
… have found that it is imperative to develop quality management systems that will continuously improve the quality of their products, simply in order to survive. Total quality management (TQM), a term widely accepted as a new management philosophy which was developed based on the management …
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