European Quality Improvement System

itself produced by the melt. The steel was harder than iron and less brittle than cast iron. In the nineteenth century appeared manufacturing methods. Example of Bessemer methods (1856), Thomas-Gilchrist process in 1877. They produced a good quality steel and participated to the industrial revolution. Finaly it is in the middle of XIX century that Dmitry Chernov found the polymorphous transformations of steel and establishmed the diagram iron/carbon. At this date the metallurgy became a science

pilotage de flux et les politiques de gestion des stocks représentent donc un enjeu crucial pour la maîtrise générale de la chaîne logistique, et de nombreuses politiques de gestion de stocks ont été développées dans la littérature dans le cadre de systèmes mono-produits (modèle de Wilson, politiques à point de commande, à niveau de recomplètement…). Cependant, les flux logistiques réels sont bien souvent composés de plusieurs produits, apportant une complexité supplémentaire pour l'optimisation de

implementation of this soft law has to be examined in line with the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This concept tends to show that business ethics is not an oxymoron. According to the European Commission, CSR means mainly that firms decide by their own initiative on their contribution to the improvement of the society and to make it more environmental friendly. This responsibility has to be exerted towards employees, and more generally, towards anyone involved in the firm (stakeholders) but

actions correctrices et enfin d’améliorer le processus de rendre compte. - Rapport, page 3 Dans cette acception large, la vérification de la conformité peut faire partie de l’audit de performance, notamment pour l’audit de processus ou de l’audit de système d’information. L’audit externe n’est normalisé à l’échelle internationale que dans sa composante comptable et financière. Dans ce cas, il désigne la mission de certification de ce que les comptes rendus par une entité sont réguliers, sincères et donnent

playing fields and altered rules and regimes. In “Beyond business as usual?” — our Global introduction article — we present four paradigm-shifting trends that have the potential to reshape the healthcare landscape and create new opportunities: high-quality generics, fundamental healthcare reform, personalized medicine and globalization. To create a more sustainable biotechnology industry, companies will need to understand these trends, prepare for them and help shape them. As biotech faces the future

construction hybride ne disposant pas de bases conceptuelles solides, peut s'inspirer de l'ancrage théorique qui sous-tend le mouvement de la qualité. Il développe ces idées en discutant cinq idéesforces de la qualité : l'orientation-client, le système de production, la maîtrise des processus, les erreurs sources d'apprentissage et l'implication du personnel de base. Ce faisant, il apparaît que les défis de l'action publique renouvelée, soumise à un nombre croissant de paradoxes, peuvent trouver

.................................................................... 35 PARTIE III : ACTEURS EUROPÉENS ................................................................................ 39 3.1. The European Fair Trade Association (EFTA) ................................ 39 3.2. Network of European worldshops.................................................... 41 3.3. Max Havelaar, le label du commerce équitable ............................... 43 3.4. La Plate-Forme pour le Commerce Equitable...

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the proposed fusion between Ryanair and Air Lingus, the main players on Dublin/London routes. It aims to evaluate the situation of the merger and its influence on the market behavior, competition and quality of services provided. Ryanair, one of the largest airlines in the world, is an Irish-based “low cost” airline offering point-to-point scheduled air transport service on more than 400 routes across Europe. With more than 40 million passengers

Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM) and AMR Research, and initially included 69 voluntary member companies. Council membership is now open to all companies and organizations interested in applying and advancing stateof-the-art supply-chain management systems and practices. Member companies pay a modest annual fee to support Council activities. All who use the SCOR-model are asked to acknowledge the SCC in all documents describing or depicting the SCOR-model and its use. The complete SCOR-model and other

our restaurant we defined the following mission, goal, values and vision. Mission: Bring the spirit of Germany to Latvia and offer German food and drinks. Goal: Bring German culture and atmosphere to Latvia. Values: friendliness, credibility, quality, originality, hospitality Vision: We want to be a meeting-place for the whole family and everyone, for locals as well as for tourists. 2 Products/Services In the following we describe our products. In the first step we categorized our single