Special issue published: "Total Quality Management and Sustainable Development"

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management 18(2/3) 2016

• A life cycle approach to robust design methodology
• An approach to foster eco-design in 'traditional' companies without eco-knowledge
• Continuous improvement planning through sustainability assessment of product-service systems
• Evaluating the impact of product eco-redesign on CLSC performances through a system dynamics approach
• Factors and barriers affecting the purchase of electric vehicles in the Italian market
• Internalisation strategies of external costs of transport for a sustainable logistics
• Assessing product sustainability measurement within quality management systems: a case study in automotive industry
• Investigating the relationship between energy consumption and overall equipment effectiveness for improving manufacturing systems' productivity: an application in the thermoforming process
• Investigating the sustainability of a high-energy consuming industrial process to achieve total quality
• LCA methodology applied to the realisation of a domestic plate: confrontation among the use of three different raw materials
• Managing environmentally driven change in manufacturing organisations - moving from reactive to proactive behaviour
• Quality sustainability in engineering educational institutions - a theoretical model
• The impact of renewable energy systems on local sustainability
• A pick-up and delivery problem with time windows by electric vehicles