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No single baseline exists to uniquely address process improvement issues with respect to industrial management from an evolutionary and process maturation perspective. This research illustrates that the software industry's Capability Maturity Model (CMM) can be adapted within unrelated industries as a process maturity framework. This research also shows that existing process improvement paradigms do not address issues of process maturity and that existing industrial process environments do not conform to CMM tenets. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]