Theory Explicating the Linkage Between Quality, Productivity and Competitive Position
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Begun in 1973, the Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) is the premier international NDE meeting designed to provide an interface between research and early engineering through the presentation of current ideas and results focused on facilitating a rapid transfer to engineering development.
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Productivity has been of interest for generations, certainly since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Industrialists desired more output per person-hour and got it by using machines. Machine operators in sweat shops at low wages turned out phenomenal productivity. High productivity has always been linked to high profit.