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

Scott, Bradley S.; Wilcock, Anne; Kanetkar, Vinay

doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2008.04.008

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“…This study adopted the Luning and Marcelis [39] model of quality management designed for the food industry. Quality management consists of the following: (1) quality assurance, which addresses setting requirements in the quality system, evaluating and organizing change and making consumers confident that quality requirements will be met; (2) quality improvement, a systematic approach to improving a system by paying attention to structural causes and solutions; (3) quality design as a method to translate the voice of the customer into the technical requirements of products and processes; (4) quality control as a basic activity of food quality management to control variation within tolerable levels by taking corrective actions, while understanding that statistical process control, acceptance sampling, and visual inspection are used in quality control; and (5) a quality policy that determines long-term quality goals and objectives and how to achieve the same results through quality systems [40,41].…”

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A Novel Environmental Performance Evaluation of Thailand’s Food Industry Using Structural Equation Modeling and Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Techniques

Pipatprapa

Huang

2016

Sustainability

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Currently, the environment and sustainability are important topics for every industry. The food industry is particularly complicated in this regard because of the dynamic and complex character of food products and their production. This study uses structural equation modeling (SEM) and a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) to investigate which factors are suitable for evaluating the environmental performance of Thailand's food industry. A first-stage questionnaire survey was conducted with 178 managers in the food industry that obtained a certificate from the Department of Industrial Work of Thailand to synthesize the performance measurement model and the significance of the relationship between the indicators. A second-stage questionnaire measured 18 experts' priorities regarding the criteria and sub-factors involved in the different aspects and assessment items regarding environmental performance. SEM showed that quality management, market orientation, and innovation capability have a significantly positive effect on environmental performance. The FAHP showed that the experts were most concerned about quality management, followed by market orientation and innovation capability; the assessment items for quality policy, quality assurance, and customer orientation were of the most concern. The findings of this study can be referenced and support managerial decision making when monitoring environmental performance.

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A Novel Environmental Performance Evaluation of Thailand’s Food Industry Using Structural Equation Modeling and Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Techniques

Pipatprapa

Huang

2016

Sustainability

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“…Warwood & Knowles (2004) mendapati tiada hubungan signifi kan di antara kedua-dua variabel ini yang menggunakan 39 sampel daripada syarikat pembuatan di UK. Sebaliknya, Scott et al (2009) melaporkan syarikat pengeluar produk makanan bersaiz sederhana paling banyak menggunakan amalan 5S untuk meningkatkan prestasi syarikat dalam sektor pembuatan di Kanada. Dalam sektor pembuatan di Sepanyol pula, amalan 5S lebih banyak dilaksanakan untuk meningkatkan prestasi operasi yang merangkumi produktiviti, kualiti, penghantaran, kepuasan pekerja dan tempoh pembangunan produk baharu di syarikat besar dan multi-nasional berbanding PKS (Bayo-Moriones et al 2010).…”

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Relationship between 5S Implementation and Green Performance of Malaysian Manufacturing SMEs: A Conceptual Model

Jamian¹,

Rahman²,

Deros³

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JKUKM

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“…It helps the company to improve efficiency and quality (Engelund, Breum, & Friis, 2009). In particular for food processing SMEs implementing lean contribute to less product recalls (Scott, Wilcock, & Kanetkar, 2009). To conclude, lean thinking can perform a framework to improve enterprise activities and increase their overall performance (Cudney & Elrod, 2011;Shamah, 2013).…”

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Lean Manufacturing Practices And Their Barriers In Small And Medium Enterprises (Smes)

Sumantri¹

2018

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Although lean implementation has been extensively studied in large companies, research in this area is quietly limited in SME sector. Characteristic of SMEs and large manufacturers are different with respect to structure, policy, resource employee, and culture; therefore, the results of study are significantly different. Lean thinking does not provide easy applications in food industry. This fact raises the question of whether the lean implementation is feasible for companies with different characteristics, such as in food industry, particularly in SMEs. Studies in this area are still evolving and limited; therefore, study investigating lean implementation in SMEs sector is required. This exploratory study attempted to explore lean manufacturing implementation in the context of the SMEs in East Java Province of Indonesia. To collect data, this study used a structured questionnaire. The result of this study showed that lean implementation in food processing SMEs in East Java was quite low. Only 13.3% of SMEs were implementing lean manufacturing practices, and 86.7% of SMEs applied lean manufacturing occasionally. The least lean manufacturing implementation was the use of tools such as statistical process control (SPC) and Full Strategy. The higher barrier to lean manufacturing practice consisted of availability of resources; lack of training; internal resistance; variability in raw materials quality and supply. The barriers encountered by SMEs result from the characteristics of this sector and the characteristics of food processing industry.

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

Cited by 62 publications

References 11 publications

A Novel Environmental Performance Evaluation of Thailand’s Food Industry Using Structural Equation Modeling and Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Techniques

A Novel Environmental Performance Evaluation of Thailand’s Food Industry Using Structural Equation Modeling and Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Techniques

Relationship between 5S Implementation and Green Performance of Malaysian Manufacturing SMEs: A Conceptual Model

Lean Manufacturing Practices And Their Barriers In Small And Medium Enterprises (Smes)

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