Quality Assurance (QA) and Total Quality Management (TQM)

In an age when most business plans extend only to the next quarterly reporting period, the authors of this book propose an audaciously longer view of future planning.

Pharmaceutical Quality by Design: Principles and Applications discusses the Quality by Design (QbD) concept implemented by regulatory agencies to ensure the development of a consistent and high-quality pharmaceutical product that safely provides the maximum therapeutic benefit to patients.

Fully updated to reflect the 2022 ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) Body of Knowledge (BoK), The ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook, Fourth Edition is ideal for candidates studying for the CSSBB examination.

Although there are many books on root cause analysis (RCA), most concentrate on team actions such as brainstorming and using quality tools to discuss the failure under investigation.

Global financial crisis and colossal sovereign debt has resulted in the need for radical cuts in public expenditure in many countries.

In order for High Technology (HT) companies to tackle contemporary demanding market challenges, they frequently deploy time-reduction strategies with respect to product launch.

This textbook introduces logistics from a broad perspective to include all activities throughout the product and service life cycle pertaining to supply chain and logistics management, the physical supply and distribution of products, and the corresponding maintenance and support.

This book looks at systems engineering now and comments on the future.

In order to survive and attain market leadership, organizations must engage in longer-term strategic quality activities to address radical, paradigm-shifting improvements that affect the organization and its competitive position.

The first edition of this book won a Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research, and now, following in the tradition of its bestselling predecessor, The Complete Lean Enterprise: Value Stream Mapping for Office and Services, Second Edition details a robust step-by-step approach for implementing Lean initiatives in the service industry and office environments.

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Developing an ISO 13485-Certified Quality Management System: An Implementation Guide for the Medical-Device Industry details the lessons learned from a real-world project focusing on building an ISO 13485:2016 Quality Management System (QMS) from scratch and then having it officially certified.

The Logistics, Supply Chain and Operations Management Case Study Collection contains real-life scenarios from leading companies including Volvo, Vortex, Honda of America, Green Cargo and Swedish Transport Administration.

An estimated 3,500 people die every day in the UK.

With the globalization of work and technological advancements in recent years, and with emphasis on service quality today, organizations have changed.

With an emphasis on value creation and leadership, this book will help organizations around the globe to build stronger internal audit functions, highlighting the latest risks including COVID-19 and the most cutting-edge tools to assess them.

Taking a broad approach that speaks to experienced and inexperienced process improvement practitioners, CMMI experts and CMMI novices, this second edition thoroughly examines the latest version of the CMMI.

This book highlights the risk of inaction for businesses when it comes to climate change, but also contains best practices to allow them to capitalize on the numerous business opportunities that climate change presents, including increased profitability, enhanced brand value, and improved shareholder relations.

This book includes studies on regions, industries and tendencies of industrial change and spatial concentration of competences and industrial potentials.

Herbert William Heinrich has been one of the most influential safety pioneers.

Quality Management: Reconsidered for the Digital Economy continues to provide a one-stop-shop for anyone studying the theory and practice of quality management.

We live in an ever-changing world in which organizations find it increasingly difficult to stay ahead of the changes needed to be successful without thriving people.

Many shops have simplified their production control by using card-based systems such as kanban and Constant Work-in-Process (ConWIP).

Availability of a system is a crucial factor for planning and optimization.

Managing Quality will help you understand the role of TQM within your organization and how you can best implement it.

This book provides a concerted supply chain perspective for dealing with pandemics on the scale of COVID-19.

From the best-selling quality management author, David Hoyle, Quality Management Essentials is the perfect brief, yet authoritative, introduction to the fundamentals of quality management.

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is an innovative continuous improvement methodology for designing new products, processes, and services by integrating Lean and Six Sigma principles.

The delivery of real bottom-line results from manufacturing improvements has proven to be much harder than expected for most companies.

Every day human organisations fail.

An accessible primer, Electronic Health Record: A Systems Analysis of the Medications Domain introduces the tools and methodology of Structured Systems Analysis as well as the nuances of the Medications domain.

Managing Human Resources in the Middle East provides the reader with an understanding of the dynamics of HRM in this important region.

Due to its societal and economic relevance, Project Management (PM) has become an important discipline and a concept critical to modern organizations, public and private.

This publication introduces a portable audit model to facilitate a simple, flexible, and effective audit of single or multiple quality system standards and achieve both compliance and initiation of improvement initiatives.

"e;There is no doubt that this is a truly original and groundbreaking work in applying the Theory of Constraints.

Improved communication in business means higher profits.

Proven techniques for improving software and process quality with Six SigmaThis practical, in-depth guide explains how to apply Six Sigma to solve common product and process improvement challenges in the software and IT industry.

A statistical approach to the principles of quality control and management Incorporating modern ideas, methods, and philosophies of quality management, Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement, Third Edition presents a quantitative approach to management-oriented techniques and enforces the integration of statistical concepts into quality assurance methods.

Lean Manufacturing concepts are being applied to a variety of industries.

Lean is about building and improving stable and predictable systems and processes to deliver to customers high-quality products/services on time by engaging everyone in the organization.

In einer Zeit, in der der Erfolg von Projekten entscheidend für den langfristigen Erfolg von Unternehmen ist, rückt das Qualitätsmanagement mehr denn je in den Fokus.

On the manufacturing shop floor, the principle of "e;value comes from the production of parts rather than charts"e; crucially applies when using practical statistical process control (SPC).

Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2000 the revised ISO 9001 standard has been implemented and is being used widely.

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In order to stay competitive, organizations need to continuously improve their processes.

Facility Integrity Management: Effective Principles and Practices for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries presents the information needed to completely understand common failures in the facility integrity management process.

The Practical Guide to Transforming Your Company is a concise handbook for conducting business transformations-defining and implementing a redirection in the company's core business or in its strategic positioning.