Virginia Tech
The measurement and empirical evaluation of quality and productivity for manufacturing processes
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis research investigates the conceptual relationships among quality costs, productivity, and quality proposed by Garvin, Juran, and Feigenbaum. It provides an empirical evaluation of these relationships by applying a specific linear programming approach, namely, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), to various production specifications developed for a linerboard manufacturing case study. The research investigates the changes in the efficiency values when various models derived from these qualities, productivity, and cost specifications are evaluated. The use of DEA as a method to support the modeling of these relationships is also discussed. The I.D.E.A.S. software program developed by Ali is used to implement DEA in the research.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science
- Level thesis:degree_level
- masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1994
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- McNelis, Robert J.
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-06102009-063228
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/42996