Integrating Six Sigma and maintenance excellence with QFD

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management

Volumn 4, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 676-690

  Lazreg, Maher ^a,b   Gien, Denis ^c  

^a QASSIM UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b INSTITUT SUPÉRIEUR DES SCIENCES APPLIQUÉES ET DE TECHNOLOGIE DE SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Integration; Maintenance excellence; ME; Progressive improvement; QFD; Quality approaches; Quality function deployment; Six Sigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149172232     PISSN: 17466474     EISSN: 17466482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPQM.2009.025191     Document Type: Article

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