Total Quality Management Introduced in the 1950s and made more popular in the 1980s Total Quality Management is a very radical management style. A strong Total Quality Management plan relies on internal as well as external team building. A mistake to avoid before the implementation of a Total Quality Management strategy is an inaccurate analysis of the precondition and current state of an organization. Leadership styles and the organizations culture need to work well together. If they do not‚ this
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raise their companies to the top‚ often firing managers in the bottom 10% and giving the top 20% bonuses. While streamlining the company some of GE’s 350 businesses were closed and the management structure was reduced from twenty-nine levels to only six‚ with
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Chapter 1-17 Operations Management Roberta Russell & Bernard W. Taylor‚ III Organization of This Text: Part I – Operations Management Intro. to Operations and Supply Chain Management: Quality Management: Statistical Quality Control: Product Design: Service Design: Processes and Technology: Facilities: Human Resources: Project Management: Chapter 1 (Slide 5) Chapter 2 (Slide 67) Chapter 3 (Slide 120) Chapter 4 (Slide 186) Chapter 5 (Slide 231) Chapter 6 (Slide 276) Chapter 7 (Slide 321) Chapter
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6. What is Infant mortality period? 7. What is an Affinity diagram? 8. Define Life cycle cost. 9. Define Empowerment. 10. What is Statistical thinking? PART B — (5 × 16 = 80 Marks) 11. (a) Explain in detail the obstacles to be faced in implementing TQM in an organization. Or (b) Bring out the dimensions of product and service quality. Also explain why the service quality is more difficult to define than product quality. 12. (a) Compare and contrast Deming’s‚ Juran’s‚ and Crosby’s perspectives
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Case Study One: Amazon.com Amazon started as an e-commerce book site and has now added music‚ toys‚ electronics‚ software‚ and home improvement equipment to its list of product offerings. The Amazon supply chain is longer than that of a bookstore chain such as Borders or Barnes and Noble because of the presence of an additional intermediary—the distributor. The distributor margins in the Amazon supply chain can also be viewed as an increase in cost. However‚ Amazon has exploited several opportunities
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Name: QUALITY MANAGEMENT MID TERM EXAM Question You are a project management consultant assigned to a small manufacturing firm that has been experiencing a myriad of problems. After conducting interviews and fact-finding with key managers‚ you have observed the following: •Company revenues and profits have fallen dramatically over the previous 12 months‚ along with a drop in market share •Customer complaints have reached an all time high •Employee morale is at an all time low •The
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Elements of TQM: Quality is defined by customer Employee involvement Continuous improvement Prevention‚ not inspection Drive out variability in process control (SPC) PDCA Cycle Representation of continuous improvement Plan‚ Do‚ Check‚ Act Six Sigma Improvement Model (DMAIC) “PDCA cycle on steroids” More precise Define‚ Measure‚ Analyze‚ Improve‚ Control Define – customer
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CHAPTER 11 SIX SIGMA AND PROCESS IMPROVEMENT TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS 1. In Six Sigma‚ a problem is defined as a deviation between what should be happening and what actually is happening that is important enough to need correcting. Answer: T AACSB: Analytic Skills 2. Half the tolerance is equal to the distance from the target to the upper specification limit. Answer: T AACSB: Analytic Skills 3. A change in the quality level from 3-sigma to 4-sigma represents
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They claim six sigma is not a revolutionary way of quality thinking but rather more on evolutionary thinking on quality development. Discuss why six sigma is evolutionary and not revolutionary. I believed that six sigma is a product of evolutions to many quality standards we have from 1798 of Eli Whitney’s mass production and interchangeable parts to the present. What made six sigma different from other model is that it combined the elements of
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Strategic Quality Management Strategic Quality Management (SQM) is the process of establishing long-range quality goals and defining the approach to meeting those goals (Juran and Gryan‚ 1993: page 38). In order for an organization to succeed against its’ competitors‚ they will need to apply SQM. This will help them to implement continuous improvement within the company. “SQM also requires values and principles‚ system thinking‚ positive leadership‚ internal and external customer satisfaction‚
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