How Communication and Control Processes Improve Quality

Abstract

In order to achieve excellence, an organization should use two key instruments-quality and an effi cient and effective communication process amongst all employees-so it can attain quality management. This chapter aims to examine whether organizational communication and quality are interrelated, in order to answer the following question: Is it necessary to improve communication within an organization so that quality management can be effi ciently and effectively pursued? For this purpose, data were collected through the administration of a questionnaire to the staff of a Portuguese public organization. The fi ndings showed that, in this organization, communication among employees of various sectors is satisfactory and that there is mutual help between them in order to improve the organizational performance.

Systematic Assessment of Product Quality

“…This will lead to the implementation of Industry 4.0 principles in this industry. The authors of other publications in the area of Industry 4.0 [55][56][57] often speak of the necessity of digitizing manufacturing process data so they can be metrizable. In particular, literature on Quality 4.0 stresses the following issues of data digitization and the metrizability of manufacturing processes [58][59][60][61][62][63][64]:…”