Essential quality practices in Indonesian manufacturing SMEs
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my.unimap-137412011-09-14T08:34:47Z Essential quality practices in Indonesian manufacturing SMEs Mohd. Nizam, Ab. Rahman, Dr. Hernadewita Baba, Md. Deros, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Rasdan, Ismail mnizam@eng.ukm.my hadeita@yahoo.com 5-S Indonesia Total quality environment TQM Link to publisher's homepage at http://www.myiem.org.my/ The importance of quality practices has considerably increased over the last years, on both a practical and theoretical levels. In competitive and global business environment, companies should create a need for managers in manufacturing sector to effectively and continually improve quality, capability and process efficiency. This paper presents the findings from the survey on the current status of fundamental 5-S quality practices and the implementation of total quality management (TQM) in Indonesian SMEs. The aims are to determine whether the essential quality practices such as 5-S quality practices have a significant contribution to the successful TQM implementation and any differences in the implementation of 5-S can be attributed mainly to the maturity of the 5-S programme. This paper outlines the results of the 5-S survey conducted among 36 Indonesian manufacturing SMEs with a total of 78 per cent are applying 5-S in their environment. The main finding from the study proved that 5-S activities provide an essential total quality environment. 2011-09-14T08:34:47Z 2011-09-14T08:34:47Z 2009-06 Article The Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, vol. 71(2), 2009, pages 36-43 0126-513X http://www.myiem.org.my/content/iem_journal_2009-180.aspx http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/13741 en The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia |
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