BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa Biography: Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa Devry University Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa Kaoru Ishikawa is known as “the ‘Father of Quality Circles’ and as a founder of the Japanese quality movement”. (Beckford‚ John. Quality: A Critical Introduction) Ishikawa was also a pioneer in Total Quality Management. He believed in working for the customer before‚ during‚ and after product and/or services were delivered. Ishikawa was a Chemist‚ held a doctorate in Engineering
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Management TRUE/FALSE 1. Deming laid out a “quality improvement program” for companies such as Ford‚ GM‚ and Procter & Gamble‚ when invited to work with them to improve their quality. ANS: F DIF: Difficulty: Easy NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic TOP: A-Head: The Deming Philosophy KEY: Bloom’s: Knowledge 2. Unlike other management gurus and consultants‚ Deming defined and described quality precisely. ANS: F DIF: Difficulty: Easy NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic TOP: A-Head: The Deming Philosophy KEY: Bloom’s:
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William Edwards Deming was an American statistician‚ professor‚ author‚ lecturer and consultant. He made a significant contribution to Japan ’s later reputation for innovative high-quality products and its economic power. There‚ from 1950 onward‚ he taught top management how to improve design (and thus service)‚ product quality‚ testing‚ and sales (the last through global markets) through various methods‚ including the application of statistical methods. W Edwards Deming placed great importance and
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the wee hours of the morning and thus‚ disturbing their sleep during their working hours. Things were worse at the other plant of M&M in Nagpur. But this was all in the 1980s. M&M has come a long way since then – it has worn the most coveted Deming prize for quality‚ and started a farming equipment assembling plant in the USA. After the huge success there‚ the company opened a second assembly plant and a distribution centre in Georgia. Now‚ the company is in the process of establishing assembling
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carrying out the plan‚ the hawthorne experiments in the late 1920s showed how worker productivity could be impacted by participation. • 1930s: Walter Shewhart developed the methods for statistical analysis and control of quality. • 1950s: W. Edwards Deming taught methods for statistical analysis and control of quality to Japanese engineers and executives. • 1968: The Japanese named their approach total quality to companywide quality control. Kaoru Ishikawa’s synthesis of the philosophy contributed
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different pioneers perhaps some of the most recognizes pioneers are the three major contributors they are W. Edwards Deming‚ Joseph M. Juran‚ and Philip B.Crosby. Mr. Deming was most recognizes for the Deming cycle this particular approach was develop to link the production of a product with consumer needs and focus the resources of all departments. Deming was also known for demings fourteen points as well as the seven deadly diseases. Mr. Juran was known for Juran’s three basic steps to progress
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TQM notion was developed based on the teachings of American management professionals corresponding to W. Edwards Deming‚ Joseph M. Juran‚ and Armand V. Feigenbaum‚ but they obtained very little success in the U.S; however in Japan‚ mangers embraced their idea strongly and ended up naming their highest yearly prize for manufacturing excellence after Dr. Deming. That’s why W. Edwards Deming is famous for creating TQM when in reality it wasn’t only him who improved the concept after the Japanese utilized
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Completion of Chapter 1 Proctor and Gamble – Focus on repeat customers * Practical satisfaction of meeting customer requirements. * Review of modern quality – Skilled craftsman on 1 to 1 basis. Blacksmith.. one on one negotiation face to face relations with customers. * Industrial Revolution – Henry Ford – Mass production. Quality once a post production review. Reactive approach. * Bell System Statistical – Shurart. * WWII Post War l 40’sand 50’s- Beming and Juran
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Engineering Management Systems - Quality Systems By Rob Walker Email rob.walker@theiet.org ©Sept 2012 2 Quality Systems Contents Introduction to Quality Assurance ............................................................................. 5 Quality Audits ........................................................................................................... 7 UK Ministry of Defence project SafSec ................................................................... 10 Quality
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DOE - Design of Experiment DOE is an approach used to identify factors/steps that are contributing most to an observed variation in product specifications. The classical DOE focuses on identifying the factors that affect the level of a product/process response‚ examining the response and forming the mathematical prediction model. The modern DOE‚ introduced by Genichi Taguchi in early 1980s‚ applies in both product and process development to identify the factors that affect the variability of the
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