Total Company-Wide Management

Volume 26, Number 1 - January 2010 through March 2010

Total Company-Wide Management System: Case Studies

By Dr. Souraj Salah, Professor Abdur Rahim, and Dr. Juan A. Carretero

Peer-Refereed Applied Papers

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Total Company-Wide Management System: Case Studies

By Dr. Souraj Salah, Professor Abdur Rahim, & Dr. Juan A. Carretero

Abstract

Souraj Salah is a Ph.D. Candidate studying at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. He received Graduate Student Award for 2007/2008 and 2008/2009. He is also a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a registered professional engineer.

Abdur Rahim is a Professor of Quantitative Methods, Quality Control, Inventory Control, Reliability, Production Management, Operations Management and Total Quality Management at the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.

Juan A. Carretero is an Associate Professor of Computer Simulation of Mechanical Systems, Optimization in Design, and Robotics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.

For organizations to be successful, the use of well-structured management systems (MSs), a quality management (QM) approach and continuous improvement (CI) methodologies, such as Lean Six Sigma (LSS), are essential. In many industries, CI methodologies and MSs are separately implemented, either formally or informally. The effective integration of MSs with CI interventions ensures strategic alignment of all activities and provides an industry with a competitive advantage. LSS is a modern and widely accepted methodology...