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External Obstacles to Quality for Small Scale Enterprises


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1 Department of Production Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-32
2 M.E. Dept., Assam Engineering College, Guwahati-13, India
3 MSME-DI, 111& 112, B.T.Road, Kolkata-108
4 Production Engineering Dept., Jadavpur University, Kolkata-32, India
     

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The Small scale manufacturing enterprises are facing critical problems while selling their products. As the SSE is not having huge financial backup and so they depend very much on the revenue earned after selling their product. The product sales can only increase if the manufactured product is meeting the desired level of standard of the customers' requirement. But actually it is not doing so. In this paper, we have tried to analyse the problems in the context of external obstacles to Quality by taking survey with the help of questionnaire for the SSE. If the external obstacles are addressed properly by the SSE, then they can remove the obstacles to quality to a large extent by changing them accordingly as per market demand.
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Authors

Abhijit Chakraborty
Department of Production Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-32
Sudip Kr. Deb
M.E. Dept., Assam Engineering College, Guwahati-13, India
Sitanath Mukhopadhay
MSME-DI, 111& 112, B.T.Road, Kolkata-108
Ranjan Bhattacharya
Production Engineering Dept., Jadavpur University, Kolkata-32, India

Abstract


The Small scale manufacturing enterprises are facing critical problems while selling their products. As the SSE is not having huge financial backup and so they depend very much on the revenue earned after selling their product. The product sales can only increase if the manufactured product is meeting the desired level of standard of the customers' requirement. But actually it is not doing so. In this paper, we have tried to analyse the problems in the context of external obstacles to Quality by taking survey with the help of questionnaire for the SSE. If the external obstacles are addressed properly by the SSE, then they can remove the obstacles to quality to a large extent by changing them accordingly as per market demand.

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