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Simulation Gaming and the Improvement of Quality

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Global Interdependence

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Improvements in quality performance in the Far East are slowly being mirrored in the West. The role of analytic methods, including charts, in raising quality standards is justly attracting wider recognition. SQCCHART is a new simulation/game, written to support training in the effective use of statistical quality control charts.

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  1. School of Management, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK

    James M. Freeman

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  1. Department of English, University of Alabama, 35487-0244, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

    David Crookall

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Kinki University, Kyushu, Iizuka-shi, Fukuoka, 820, Japan

    Kiyoshi Arai

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Freeman, J.M. (1992). Simulation Gaming and the Improvement of Quality. In: Crookall, D., Arai, K. (eds) Global Interdependence. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68189-2_40

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