13 articles for “Continuous Quality Improvement”

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Role of Quality Control and Everyone’s Participation in Japan to Prevent Pollution During Last Five DecadesMohammed Matouq, Nasir Kloub, Kazue InoueEconomic Growth in Japan after World War II was very remarkable and products from its manufacturing industry were widely accepted in the world market after productivity and quality of them were tremendously improved. On the other hand, Japan soon found itself in severe environmental deterioration, due to not being paid any attention to environment. However, that pollution from industry was … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 1 · 30 Apr 2007 · 7,998 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractImprovements on Semi Critical Assisted-Solvent Extraction of Biocrude Oil from Spirogyra. sp Macro AlgaeTulio Chavez-Gil, Hany F. Sobhi, Alexis Pacheco-LaracuenteHere, we report on an improved chemical method to extract hydrocarbons (CH) and Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAME) from wild green macro algae, which is higher than that carried out with conventional Soxhlet (Sx) and similar to that of Subcritical (SbC) or supercritical fluid (SCE) extraction methods. Crude oil plus residual biomass gave combined calorific values of 49.05 MJ/kg in … …American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Vol. 14, Issue 2 · 18 Apr 2018 · 10,083 accessesView PDF Cite

Case ReportOpen accessAll words, across the recordUsing Lean Six Sigma to Increase Efficiency of a Grain Receipt Process of a Brazilian Agroindustry CooperativeSeiti Moraes Sakumoto, Daiane Maria De Genaro Chiroli, Ana Caroline DzulinskiDue to the competitiveness of companies to increase market share, they have been more and more interested in topics related to cost reduction, process efficiency, new customers and continuous improvement. Considering this scenario, this study conducted analyses and implemented improvements using the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology in a grain receipt process of a Brazilian agroindustrial cooperative to increase its … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 2 · 17 Jun 2019 · 7,612 accessesView PDF Cite