A survey of structured continuous improvement programs in the Canadian food sector

Food Control

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 209-217

  Scott, Bradley S ^a   Wilcock, Anne E ^b   Kanetkar, Vinay ^b  

^a McNeil Consumer Products Company   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian food industry; Continuous improvement; Dashboard metrics; HACCP; Hazard analysis critical control points; Lean manufacturing; Six Sigma; Total quality management; TQM

Indexed keywords

EID: 53949119357     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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