Quality Engineering, Volume 30, Issue 3 (2018)

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Lean Six Sigma for Operational and Service Excellence

Editorials

Editorial
Guest editorial
Pages: 357-358
Published online: 13 Sep 2018
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Case Study

Case Report
Increasing a gas distributor net profit through Lean Six Sigma
Derek Gomes Leite, Richard Andres Estombelo Montesco & Celso Satoshi Sakuraba
Pages: 359-370
Published online: 08 Dec 2017
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Achieving aggressive goals through Lean Six Sigma: A case study to improve revenue collection
Alyson Deithorn & Jamison V. Kovach
Pages: 371-388
Published online: 21 Mar 2018
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Applying Lean Six Sigma methods to reduce length of stay in a hospital's emergency department
Sandra L. Furterer
Pages: 389-404
Published online: 04 Oct 2018
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Case Report

Case Report
Designing for Six Sigma in a private organization in China under TQM implementation: A case study
Na Li, Chad Laux & Jiju Antony
Pages: 405-418
Published online: 17 Oct 2018
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Articles

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Lean Six Sigma meets data science: Integrating two approaches based on three case studies
Inez M. Zwetsloot, Alex Kuiper, Thomas S. Akkerhuis & Henk de Koning
Pages: 419-431
Published online: 21 Mar 2018
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Improving baggage flow in the baggage handling system at a UAE-based airline using lean Six Sigma tools
Imad Alsyouf, Uday Kumar, Lubna Al-Ashi & Muna Al-Hammadi
Pages: 432-452
Published online: 26 Mar 2018
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Original Articles

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A review of critical success factors for the successful implementation of Lean Six Sigma and Six Sigma in manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises
Roland Stankalla, Oksana Koval & Felicita Chromjakova
Pages: 453-468
Published online: 01 May 2018
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Toward cycle time reduction in manufacturing SMEs: Proposal and evaluation
Anupama Prashar
Pages: 469-484
Published online: 22 May 2018
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Analysis of defect propagation in the product development process based on key activity nodes
Huimeng Zheng, Weidong Liu, Chengdi Xiao & Wenbin Nie
Pages: 485-497
Published online: 01 Sep 2017
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Monitoring fractional nonconformance for short-run production
Xin Zhou, Kondaswamy Govindaraju & Geoff Jones
Pages: 498-510
Published online: 21 Sep 2017
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Power approximations for generalized linear models using the signal-to-noise transformation method
Thomas H. Johnson, Laura Freeman, Jim Simpson & Colin Anderson
Pages: 511-524
Published online: 06 Oct 2017
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Comparing two measurement systems using the probability of agreement web app
Laura T. da Rocha & Nathaniel T. Stevens
Pages: 525-533
Published online: 09 Oct 2017
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Quality Quandaries

Quality quandaries: Incorporating practical constraints into a designed experiment
Christine M. Anderson-Cook & Michael S. Hamada
Pages: 534-541
Published online: 01 May 2018
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Challenge Statements

Open challenges: Determination of root cause frequency
Willis A. Jensen
Pages: 542-544
Published online: 25 Sep 2018
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