Journal of Innovations in Business and Industry

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Authors: Pravin Ukey

Tailorability is the ability of fabrics to be shaped, cut, and sewn to fit a particular body shape or garment style. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in developing fabrics that are highly tailorable to meet the diverse needs of consumers. This paper provides an overview of the current research on the tailorability of fabrics. The review focuses on the methods used to measure the tailorability of fabrics, factors affecting tailorability, and predicting tailorability. The paper concludes with a discussion of the challenges and opportunities for further research in this area.

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Authors: Badr Saleh Al-Abdi, Faisal A.M. Ali, Abdallah M.M Badr

Process capability indices are utilized extensively in the quality control inspection process, both at the level of production and for general business operations. They take into consideration both the location and the deviation from the specified limits and targets. Several literatures have contained contributions on this issue. Existing PCIs based on Six Sigma, on the other hand, merely displayed a range of quality levels rather than a single quality level value. Thus, previous studies have found the insufficient and ineffective deployment of Six Sigma to process control and yield process. Motivated by industrial Aden oil refinery process performance case study, we discuss the density characteristic of oil to estimate the process yield, and the capacity of the process. In addition, an effort to identify the level of quality in which the refinery operates. By investigating two different methods for estimating process yield, the sigma level, which are by extends the indices to estimate capacity, level of sigma, and yield process. The analyses and findings indicated that the indices outperformed the existing indices. Ultimately, Six Sigma-based process yield index represents a potential approach that other industries and practitioners can utilize to assess process performance and quality control.

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Authors: Vartharaj Chetty, Sugandren Naidoo

Document management processes represent a key consideration in business success and quality management. There is ongoing pressure for the public sector to embrace these tools to increase efficiencies, reduce cost, waste and more significantly upholding their mandate of improved services to its citizenry. An exploratory sequential mixed method comparative case study design described the study’s methodology. The study relied on the combination of a desktop review; semi- structured exploratory individual interviews (n=45) with municipality executive and strategic managers; focus group discussions (n=2) comprising 5 and 7 participants each and a quantitative online survey (n=186), in which executive/strategic municipal employee participants provided experiential insights into the range of factors that influenced technology acceptance of differing document management systems, whilst simultaneously offering their insights on the range of impacts on “total quality” that they experienced and observed. This study reports on the quantitative part of the study. The South African context creates a unique dynamic and, for that reason, traditional models related to technology acceptance were found inadequate. The recommendations borne out of the findings can contribute substantially towards a more in depth and incremental understanding towards the successful, implementation and adoption of a customised, purpose-built document management system for the public sectors.