2011),"Analysis of interaction among the barriers to total quality management implementation using interpretive structural modeling approach"If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.

Uses the three quality dimensions of: systems; tools and techniques; and people, analyses the contribution of UK writers to the development of the body of knowledge known as total quality management (TQM). From examination of a range of source material (e.g. books, papers, postgraduate theses, and articles) it is clear that quality and TQM, within the UK, is still a subject of research and reporting. Those papers written by the academic fraternity tend to focus on the systems, and tools and techniques dimensions, whilst the more journalistic papers show a preference for people-related issues. The examination reveals that the contribution of UK writers presents a rich and broad picture of TQM, however, a truly integrated view is not provided.

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This paper is on determining a hybrid form of control which has both Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) and Variable Structure Control (VSC) integrated. This proposed Fuzzy Variable Structure Control (FVSC) approach combines the power of approximate reasoning of FLC with the switching synthesis used in VSC. The FVSC is applied to control and stabilize a micro satellite in space. A model of satellite is used in this study in order to ensure the applications of FVSC in space. The simulation results indicate that the fuzzy logic can be advantageously used to minimize the chattering and improve the time response in the satellite system. MATLAB SIMULINK is extensively employed in this work.