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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Quality tools"”.
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Optimising corrective maintenance backlog using quality tools and quality principles at a selected power generation plant in South Africa optimising corrective maintenance backlog using quality tools and quality principles at a selected power generation plant in South Africa
… the requirements for the Master of Philosophy in Quality Management, Durban University of Technology Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2022.
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Using Displacement Sensors to Characterize Critical Powder Layers in Laser Powder Bed Fusion
… manufacturing methods, though process quality tools are still undeveloped. Uniform powder layers are critical to the final part quality for such processes, and currently, no machine can provide objective evidence of a proper powder layer with in-process monitoring equipment. In this …
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Developing a quality improvement taxonomy
Total Quality Management (TQM) has become a popular term in quality improvement management. Many organizations, however, frequently implement quality tools that are not well coordinated with the established quality principles or the managerial decisions and actions. This research focuses on …
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Implementation of Continuous Quality Improvement in a Community Mental Health Care Center: Effect on Morale
… important to all service organizations because quality is dependent upon the nature of face-to-face interactions. Because the workers in mental health service organizations must care for patients, morale is especially important. Although studies suggest that rapid change due to cutbacks, …
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Using The Six Sigma Policy Deployment Cycle To Mitigate Project Failur
… are struggling to improve customer-focused quality in today's highly competitive domestic and global markets. At the same time, these organizations have failed to implement the Six Sigma methodology into their daily control and strategic planning processes. Six Sigma deployment failures have …
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The Development of a Hybrid Knowledge-Based System for Lean Six Sigma Implementation in Healthcare Environment: The Development of a Hybrid Knowledge-Based (KB)/Gauging Absence of Pre-Requisites (GAP)/Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Model for Implementing Lean Six Sigma System in Healthcare Environment
… organisations have adopted and applied different quality tools and models in recent times, with some even developing their own quality-based initiatives. For example, the approach of Lean Six Sigma (L6σ) has recently been gradually and slowly implemented in healthcare institutions. However, the …
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Service quality of English Islamic banks.
… However, are these banks meeting the service quality needs of their customers? Previous studies on service quality within Islamic banks have been restricted to Muslim-based countries and whilst English Muslims will have the same religious beliefs, their values may have been altered by the …
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How schools can effectively plan to meet the goal of improving student learning.
… a continuous improvement model using Total Quality Management (TQM) principles aligned to strategic planning and the culture of the school. Data collection and analysis: The study combined qualitative and quantitative methods and was conducted in two phases. Three elementary schools within a …
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Arabic News Text Classification and Summarization: A Case of the Electronic Library Institute SeerQ (ELISQ)
… work with Arabic news. Due to the lack of high quality tools for Named Entity Recognition (NER) and topic identification for Arabic, two new tools were constructed: RenA for Arabic NER, and ALDA for Arabic topic extraction tool (using the Latent Dirichlet Algorithm). Controlled experiments with …
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Environmental justice education and atmospheric particulate analysis in urban environmental health policy development : indoor airborne particulate concentrations in preschools of asthmatic children in Newark
… to significantly contribute to poor indoor air quality; and be associated with adverse health effects of asthmatic children. Presentation of data to the preschool community has provided an urban environmental-health awareness regarding asthma triggers; and has identified a policy that creates an …
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Development of a high-speed high-precision micro-groove cutting process
… experiments using diamond-coated AFM probes as tools demonstrated process viability up to cutting speeds of 25 mm/min and chip formation at the sub-micron scale. However, AFM probe geometries proved too fragile for this demanding application. High quality tools with improved cutting geometries …