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Umesh M. Bhushi ¹, K. Vizayakumar ², Shivaprasad Dandagi ³, A. S. Deshpande ⁴

Affiliations
1 VTU PG Centre, Belgaum, IN
2 IEM Department, IIT Kharagpur, IN
3 KLE College of Engineering, Belgaum, IN
4 GIT, Belgaum, IN

Abstract

Major facets of TQM are Customer focus, Top Management Commitment, Total Employee Involvement, Continuous Improvement (CI), all these should be aptly supported by an adequate measure. Of these Top Management does inspire and drive the culture towards that of a total quality organization. Even in most quality awards like EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) model, leadership drives the policy, strategy, and people management within the organization, providing the resources and processes necessary for it to thrive. Thus, Top Management Commitment (TMC) has been emphasized widely in literature, but, the evidence to assess the commitment, and means to initiate have been inadequate or absent. TMC has been emphasized widely in literature, but, the evidence to assess the commitment, and means to initiate have been inadequate or absent. Unless this measure exists, it is difficult to assess the status of the organization and commenting on the lack of TMC would be unfair and in many a case, an eye opener is required to the management to show how they really are aiding in the TQMICI implementation. This paper discusses only an approach towards the measure of TMC assessment in an Engineering education system and also methodology has been spelt out to make it dynamic with the changes in time.

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Anupama N. Kallol ¹, T. V. Herwadkar ¹, A. S. Deshpande ², P. Arunkumar ¹

Affiliations
1 Dept. of I and PE, Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum, IN
2 Fr. C Rodrigues College of Engineering, Mumbai, IN

Abstract

Experiments on Electro Discharge Machining (EDM) have been carried out taking into consideration the critical input parameters like current, pulse-on, pulse-off etc., and varying them in the mathematical model developed using Design of Experiments (DOE). Statistical tools are used for the analysis of the experimental results and the effects of valuations of these critical input parameters have been investigated. Attempts have been made to suggest good and balanced combinations of parameters to be used to get a product with superior quality.

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A. S. Deshpande ¹, Yashodhan Watave ¹, P. Arunkumar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Gogte Institute of Technology, Udyambag, Belgaum-590008, IN

Abstract

The process of shop floor control is an important and necessary task that has to be performed by managers in every organization. The work presented in this paper has been carried with an on-line interaction with the industry that has been engaged in the manufacture of various hydraulic components. It has been observed that conventionally all the activities related to shop floor control are being executed manually. Considering the problems associated with the manual control and large number of variables/parameters and their interdependency, a need has been felt to develop a computer-aided system, which would simplify the process of shop floor control. The work has been aimed to generate an integrated process-planning chart, to design a systematic database, to generate job card and inspection report with the help of inputs from process plan and to generate other useful outputs such as status report, performance report etc. It is possible to have online real-time status. Scope of present work can be extended for the calculations of the cost for individual operations and subsequently cost of the entire project. The entire system has been developed using simple and commonly available software tools. It has been observed and proved that, the shop floor could derive a great advantage from the present system.

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