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Refers to the quest of quality in an organization

Total quality management

A philosophy that involves everyone in an organization in a continual effort to improve quality and achieve customer satisfaction

Total quality management

A management system to utilizing all resources to provide continuous customer satisfaction

Total quality management

A management approach that seeks to improve quality of products and service through ongoing refinements in response to continuous feedback

Total quality management

A management strategy aimed at embedding awareness of quality in all organizational processes

Total quality management

An approach to achieve operational excellence

Total quality management

Means that the organization's culture is defined by and supports the constant attainment of customer satisfaction through an integrated system of tools, techniques and training

Total quality management

The art of managing the whole to achieve excellence

Total quality management

Goal of TQM:

Do the right thing right the first time, every time

Two main objectives of TQM:

1. Total client satisfaction



2. Continuous improvement

Basic tenets of TQM:

1. The customer makes the ultimate determination of quality



2. Top management must provide leadership and support for all quality initiatives



3. Preventing variability is the key in producing high quality



4. Quality goals are a moving target that requires a commitment toward continuous improvement



5. Improving quality requires the establishment of effective metrics

Three aspects of TQM:

- counting



- customer



- culture

Objective of TQM:

Continuous improvement

Principles of TQM:

1. Customer focus



2. Process improvement



3. Total involvement

Elements of TQM:

1. Leadership



2. Education and training



3. Supportive structure



4. Communication



5. Rewards and recognition



6. Measurement

Elements of TQM (stevenson):

1. Continuous improvement



2. Competitive benchmarking



3. Employee empowerment



4. Team approach



5. Decison based on facts



6. Knowledge of tools



7. Supplier quality



8. Champion



9. Quality at the source



10. Suppliers are partners in the process

4 process steps of TQM:

1. Kaizen



2. Atarimae Hinshitsu



3. Kansei



4. Miryokuteki Hinshitsu

Focuses on continuous improvement to make processes visible, repeatable and measurable

Kaizen

The idea that things will work as they are supposed to

Atarimae Hinshitsu

Examining the way the user applies the product

Kansei

The idea that things should have an aesthetic quality

Miryokuteki Hinshitsu

Quality gurus:

- dr. W. Edwards deming



- dr. Walter a. Shewhart



- dr. Joseph juran



- dr. Kaoru ishikawa



- philip crosby



- armand v. Feigenbaum

Lead the quality movement in Japan

Dr. W. Edwards Deming

He modified the PDCA cycle to PDSA cycle

Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Advocated extensive of statistics and control charts and focused on product improvement and service conformance

Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Stressed the importance of suppliers and customers for the business development and improvement

Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Deming's system of profound knowledge:

1. Theory of optimization



2. Theory of variation



3. Theory of knowledge



4. Theory of psychology

Deming's fourteen points:

1. Create constancy purpose toward improvement of product and service



2. Adapt the new philosophy



3. Cease dependence on mass inspection



4. Minimize total cost



5. Continuously improve the system of production and service



6. Institute training on the job



7. Institute leadership



8. Drive out fear



9. Break down barriers between areas



10. Eliminate slogans aimed solely for the work force



11. Eliminate numerical goals, work standards and quotas



12. Remove barriers that hinder workers



13. Institute a vigorous program of education and self improvement



14. Take action to accomplish the transformation

A cyclic process for planning and testing improvement activities prior to full-scale implementation and / or prior to formalizing the improvement

Deming cycle

Defines quality as fitness for use in terms of design, conformance, availability, safety and field use

Dr. Joseph Juran

He relies on system and problem-solving techniques

Dr. Joseph Juran

Focuses on top-down management and technical methods

Dr. Joseph Juran

Juran's quality trilogy:

1. Quality planning



2. Quality control



3. Quality improvement

Provide operators with the ability to produce goods and services that can meet customers needs

Quality planning

The inspection part where operators compare actual performance with plans and resolve the differences

Quality control

Encompasses improvement of fitness for use and error reduction by applying breakthrough thinking

Quality improvement

States that zero defects is an ethos that management should adopt and promote

Philip Crosby

Develop and promote the principle of doing it right the first time (DRIFT)

Philip Crosby

Crosby's four absolutes of quality:

1. Quality is conformance to requirements



2. The management system is prevention



3. The performance standard is zero defects



4. The measurement system is the cost of quality

He pioneered quality control activities in Japan

Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa

He is mostly known for developing the cause and effect diagram

Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa

11 points of Ishikawa's philosophy of TQM:

1. Quality begins and ends in education



2. The first step to quality is to know the requirements of the customer



3. The ideal state of quality control is when quality inspection is no longer necessary



4. Remove the root cause, not the symptoms



5. Quality control is the responsibility of all workers and all divisions



6. Do not confuse means with objectives



7. Put quality first and set your sights to long term objectives



8. Marketing is the entrance and exit to quality



9. Top management must not show anger when facts are presented to subordinates



10. 95% of the problems in a company can be solved by the seven tools of quality



11. Data without dispersion information is false data

Emphasized the theory of probability as the tool of the statistician

Dr. Walter A. Shewhart

He described quality control as the use of statistical methods

Dr. Walter A. Shewhart

According to him, quality must encompass all the phases in the manufacturing of a product

Armand V. Feigenbaum

Phases in the manufacturing of product:

1. Design



2. Manufacturing



3. Quality checks



4. Sales



5. After sales services



6. Customer satisfaction

Controls to control the phases of manufacturing a product:

1. New design control



2. Incoming material control



3. Product control



4. Special process studies

Feigenbaum's contribution to the quality body knowledge:

1. Total quality control



2. Concept of a hidden plant



3. Accountability for quality



4. Concept of quality costs

An effective system for integrating the quality development, quality maintenance and quality improvement efforts which allow full customer satisfaction

Total quality control

Three steps to quality:

1. Quality leadership



2. Quality technology



3. Organizational commitment

Motivating force for quality improvement

Quality leadership

Statistics and machinery used to improve technology

Quality technology

Includes everyone in the quality struggle

Organizational commitment

Selection of suppliers is based on:

- quality



- price



- delivery



- service

Ten strategies for top management according to Subburaj Ramasamy:

1. Proactive management



2. Adventurous and bold change management



3. Do it right the first time (DRIFT)



4. Continuous preventive action



5. Care for little things and accumulate gains



6. Ensure economic performance



7. Practice manage by walking around



8. Measure success



9. Never rest on laurels, continue to improve



10. Build a virtual organization

Philip Crosby's simple requirements for DRIFT:

1. Define the requirements for each employees



2. Provide the wherewithal to achieve the requirements



3. Keep on motivating and encouraging the employees

Three major activities in MWBA:

- listening



- facilitating



- teaching

Advantage of MWBA:

Helps the organization to consolidate talents, wisdom of all the employees and other stakeholders

3Ps

1. Product



2. Process



3. Personnel

Means that whatever subunits, components/materials, fixtures needed for manufacturing a product are all manufactured by the organization

Vertical integration

Requirements for virtual enterprise:

1. Identify the most critical parts



2. Identify the other parts



3. Identify vendors for the other parts



4. Continuously increase sub-contracting