Assessing Performance of National Quality Infrastructure on Cooking Utensil Products in Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Birhanu, Beshah (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Amaru, Ayansa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-10T08:08:27Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T06:26:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-12-10T08:08:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T06:26:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study is focused on assessing the performance of national quality infrastructure (NQI) on aluminum cooking utensil products in Ethiopia. The quality of cooking utensil products is determined from each production process starting from raw material preparation, which is an aluminum circle sheet until the end product that is cooking utensil products. However, this product which is locally produced shows low-quality products, due to the lack of developing a standard for it. Therefore, to achieve a good quality product of cooking utensils, NQI pillars (standard, conformity assessment, metrology, and accreditation) play a high role. Hence, the objective of this study is to assess the performance of national quality infrastructure on cooking utensil products that are locally produced to improve the quality of the product and competitiveness in local and global markets. To conduct this study both primary and secondary data were collected from twelve manufacturers and different government offices. Primary data was collected by observation and 73 persons were interviewed through discussions. Secondary data was collected from different kinds of literature, articles, journals, and respective offices. From the data collection, the findings of this study suggested the lack of developed standards and these products are categorized under voluntary standard products due to that the way of quality control in this sector is weak. And the researcher evaluated the aluminum circle sheet and cooking utensil products manufacturing process concerning NQI pillar service on each production process for both production process. However, from ENQI pillars service, nothing is practiced or implemented in this sector, which means the relationship between manufacturers and ENQI service is weak. As a result, the low-quality product was achieved that cannot be competent in the local and global markets. Moreover, the health of a society can be affected because of a lack of the tests of the chemical composition of the product. To solve the above problems the researcher developed the NQI model for both the manufacturing process and proposed solution to improve the quality of the product and competitiveness in the local and global markets. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/20341 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | NQI | en_US |
| dc.subject | Aluminium Utensils | en_US |
| dc.subject | Competitiveness | en_US |
| dc.subject | ENQI | en_US |
| dc.subject | Quality Infrastructure System | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessing Performance of National Quality Infrastructure on Cooking Utensil Products in Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |