Title: Six Sigma based multicriteria approach to improve decision settings

Authors: Lotfi Azzabi, Dorra Ayadi, Younes Boujelbenne, Abdessamad Kobi, Christian Robledo, Habib Chabchoub

Addresses: Faculte des Sciences Economiques et Gestions de Sfax, Universite de Sfax – Tunisia, Route de l'Aerodrome Km 4, BP 1088, Sfax 3018, Tunisia. ' Faculte des Sciences Economiques et Gestions de Sfax, Universite de Sfax – Tunisia, Route de l'Aerodrome Km 4, BP 1088, Sfax 3018, Tunisia. ' Faculte des Sciences Economiques et Gestions de Sfax, Universite de Sfax – Tunisia, Route de l'Aerodrome Km 4, BP 1088, Sfax 3018, Tunisia. ' LASQUO/ISTIA, 62, Avenue Notre Dame du Lac, 49000 Angers, France. ' LASQUO/ISTIA, 62, Avenue Notre Dame du Lac, 49000 Angers, France. ' Institut Superieur de Gestion Industrielle de Sfax, Route Mharza Km 1.5 BP 954, 3018 Sfax, Tunisie

Abstract: The present competitive market is focusing industrial efforts on producing high-quality products with the lowest possible cost. The total performance of the process and the quality of its production depend on the one hand, of the characteristics of the intermediate products, and on the other hand, of the operation parameters of the manufacturing. To help accomplish this objective, various quality improvement philosophies have been put forward in recent years and of these, Six Sigma has emerged as perhaps the most viable and efficient technique for process quality improvement. The objective of this paper is to propose a method that puts in obviousness the enforcement performances improvement Six Sigma to assure high-level quality products and to make firm a level of improvement of the long-term performance. The application of the Six Sigma methods enforced with multicriteria approach to permit classification the betters| choices of a Tunisian industry.

Keywords: six sigma; quality engineering; ELECTRE; multicriteria decision making; MCDM; PROMETHEE; control charts; quality improvement; product quality; Tunisia.

DOI: 10.1504/IJQET.2009.030503

International Journal of Quality Engineering and Technology, 2009 Vol.1 No.1, pp.99 - 123

Published online: 18 Dec 2009 *

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