Supply chain management directly impacts product quality and the overall profitability of a company. The COVID-19 pandemic introduced massive international supply chain disruptions that sent small ...

Deming was cautious over the use of the ‘PDCA’ terminology and warned it referred to an explicitly different process, referring to a quality control circle for dealing with faults within a system, ...

Abstract: This paper exposes a new theoretical approach to in-line quality control that has a healthy effect on the operational availability of the automated production line for industry 4.0. Our ...

Service businesses must emphasize quality control as much as businesses focused ... than it is in product businesses. Once quality-assurance managers have identified areas of needed improvement ...

To systematically review the literature regarding how statistical process control—with control charts as a core tool—has been applied to healthcare quality improvement, and to examine the benefits, ...