Continuous Improvement and Focused Monitoring System is a
process management Process management may refer to:
* Business process management
** Business Process Management Journal
** Dynamic business process management
** International Conference on Business Process Management
** Social business process management
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and quality management concept, which offers companies "quick wins" benefits, which enable them to produce high quality products with shorter lead-time.
A CIFMS is not a general software application that can be readily used for any given manufacturing company, it is a uniquely designed system specifically tailored to a given company guided by a method. Therefore the most crucial process in developing and implementing an efficient CIFMS is selecting a design method which brings forth a
multi-criteria decision analysis
Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) or multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a sub-discipline of operations research that explicitly evaluates multiple conflicting criteria in decision making (both in daily life and in settings ...
(MCDM) problem with varied degrees of interdependencies among the decision components.
[NB : the MCDM problem can be formulated so as to minimize the distance between a facility and a given set of points. The efficient points of this problem are candidates for optimal solutions to many location problems.]
A key principle of an effective Continuous Improvement and Focused Monitoring System is input and feedback from a diverse group of
stakeholders.
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