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Table 2.2. Articles reporting the linking ofOFD with other manufacturing
strategies and principles
Olhager and West (2002)
Witter et.a1. (1995)
Ginn et. a1. ( 1998)
Literature .survey
An improved version of HoQ called House of
Flexibility has been presented. (QFD and
Manufacturing Flexibility principles are linked.)
A model called 'enhanced QFD has been presented.
The Concept ofreusability has been linked with QFD.
A model interfacing QFD and FMEA has been
proposed.
2.5. TPM and QFD In Engineering Education
The ever-rising global competitive waves keep invading all fields and
geographical regions. This phenomenon has been pressing mankind to infuse
higher degree of quality in all spheres of products, processes and services
(Prendergast.et.al ,2001,Chong and Rundus, 2004). The knowledge required for
attaining higher degree of quality originates from the brains of human
resources. Hence a society will be enjoying higher degree of quality of life, if
its human resources are effectively groomed and developed. The responsibility
for contributing highly useful human resources for the welfare of the society of
all regions is lying with educational institutions. Today globalization process
progresses at a faster pace making the humans face common challenges
irrespective of the societies and countries to which they belong (Irandoust And
Sjoberg, 200 I). In most of the societies these challenges are largely tackled by
engineering professionals (Paten et.al, 2005). Hence, a large portion of social
contribution originates from engineering educational institutions (Johnston,
2001). Needless to mention, the engineering educational institutions have to
contribute high quality human resources who are not only technocrats but also
society-friendly individuals (Perez-Foguet et.al, 2005). While the business
world has been reporting the adoption of different continuous quality
improvement models (Kaye and Anderson,1999), the examination of their
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