MANAGEMENT OF QUALITY Introduction Quality refers to the ability of a product or service to consistently meet or exceed customer requirements or expectations. Different customers will have different requirements‚ so a working definition of quality is customer-dependent. In order to rebuild its economy after the Second World War‚ Japan focused on quality improvement‚ making it a national imperative. This took place during a time when quality was not uppermost in the minds of business organizations
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Overcoming The Barriers In Implementing TQM and Sustaining The Success Through Continuous Quality Improvement – Deming’s 14 Points Revisited Dr. R. Jagadeesh Abstract Total Quality Management (TQM) became a popular buzzword during the last three decades and is considered to be the globally accepted success formula across the organizations. A number of success stories have been well documented in literature and widely circulated to spread the spirit and practice of TQM. While many organizations
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Quality Circles Quality Circles (QC) or Quality Control Circles (QCC) : History * Pioneered by Japanese. * Japanese nomenclature: Quality Control Circles (QCC)‚ generally now known as Quality Circles (QC) or some call it as Small Group Activity (SGA). * 1962: First QC Circle was registered with QC Circle Head Quarters in Japan. * 1974: Lockheed Company‚ USA started Quality Circle movement. * 1977: International Association of Quality Circles (IACC) was formed in USA.
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Quality Initiatives Aiming for 120% product quality “We have to aim for 120% product quality. If 99% of the products we make are perfect‚ that would seem like a pretty good record. However‚ the customers who become the owners of the remaining 1% will surely consider their products 100% defective. It is unacceptable that even one customer in a thousand–even one customer in ten thousand–should receive a defective product. That’s why we have to aim for 120%.” When founder Soichiro Honda said this
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PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Chapter 17 QUALITY MANAGEMENT Chapter 17 Quality Management Benefits of Quality Control I. II. Minimum scrap or rework due to reduced defectives. Reduced cost of labour and material as a result of reduced defectives. III. Uniform quality and reliability of product help in increasing sales turn over. IV. Reduced variability resulting in-higher quality and reduced production bottle necks. V. Reduced inspection and reduced inspection costs
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INTRODUCTION 1. ABOUT THE PROJECT Quality Assurance in Manufacturing Industries: Quality assurance is a process centered approach to ensuring that a company or organization is providing the best possible product/services. It is related to quality control‚ which focuses on enhancing and improving the process that is used to create the end result rather than focusing on result itself. Among the parts of process that are considered in Quality Assurance are: ▪ Planning ▪ Design
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I 1.Why is quality is a difficult term to define? How can we improve our understanding of quality? Quality itself has been defined as fundamentally relational: ’Quality is the ongoing process of building and sustaining relationships by assessing‚ anticipating‚ and fulfilling stated and implied needs. Even those quality definitions which are not expressly relational have an implicit relational character. Zero defects and conformance to requirements or their modern counterpart‚ six
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maintain a level of quality. Especially for the businesses engaged in export business has to sustain a high level of quality to ensure better business globally. Generally quality control standards for export are set strictly‚ as this business is also holds the prestige of the country‚ whose company is doing the export. Export houses earn foreign exchange for the country‚ so it becomes mandatory to have good quality control of their products. In the garment industry quality control is practiced right
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production methods or quality control‚ called quality circle. Therefore quality circle is nothing but a small group of employees who come together to discuss with the management issues related to either quality control or improvement in production methods form a Quality Control Circle (QCC). These employees usually work in the same areas‚ and voluntarilyvoluntarily meet on a regular basis to identify‚ analyze and solve their problems. Key Characteristics of quality circle: • A circle‚ usually
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Cost of Quality (COQ) "The cost of quality." It’s a term that’s widely used – and widely misunderstood. The "cost of quality" isn’t the price of creating a quality product or service. It’s the cost of NOT creating a quality product or service. Every time work is redone‚ the cost of quality increases. Obvious examples include: The reworking of a manufactured item. The retesting of an assembly. The rebuilding of a tool. The correction of a bank statement. The reworking of a service‚ such as
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