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An updated text on achieving profitability through quality. Two critical success factors are explored: how to build quality controls into every phase of operations and how to implement quality control strategies down and across organizational lines, mobilizing commitment at every level.
Total Quality Management: Key Concepts and Case Studies provides the full range of management principles and practices that govern the quality function. The book covers the fundamentals and background needed, as well as industry case studies and comprehensive topic coverage, making it an invaluable reference to both the novice and the more experienced individual. Aspects of quality control that are widely utilized in practice are combined with those that are commonly referred to on University courses, and the latest developments in quality concepts are also presented. This book is an ideal quick reference for any manager, designer, engineer, or researcher interested in quality. - Features two chapters on the latest ISO standards - Includes an introduction to statistics to help the reader fully grasp content on statistical quality control - Contains case studies that explore many TQM themes in real life situations
The principles of Total Quality Management have proven to be invaluable to organisations in all sectors of business and commerce and to the individuals they comprise. Indeed many organisations have discovered the relationship between quality and profitability. Now, more than ever, it is important to develop a quality strategy by adopting the principles of TQM. This important text provides a solid framework for understanding the basic concepts of TQM. It comprises three interlinked modules - fundamentals of TQM, methods of TQM and process management and improvement - and provides an integrated approach to this increasingly important business strategy. Fundamentals of Total Quality Management is vital reading for students doing MBAs, and those on MSc courses in business studies and engineering featuring TQM models, as well as practitioners in quality management and control.
Now, Toyota's top quality control expert shows managers in any business how to improve quality and cut costs using his management techniques. Used successfully by companies worldwide--these techniques have already been proven to increase productivity and dramatically improve quality in administrative, marketing, service and technology-related functions, as well as on the manufacturing floor.
This Book Covers All Aspects Of Total Quality Management(Tqm). It Provides Not Only The Principles And Practices But Also The Tools And Techniques. It Ensures The Reader To Have A Sound Understanding Of All The Concepts Of Tqm.Salient Features * It Presents Comprehensive Coverage Instructional Needs Of Business, Education, Engineering, Health-Care, Technology Students In Professional Education Institutions. * Provides Detailed Solutions To Problems In Attribute And Variable Control Charts And Acceptance Sampling Plan. * It Contains Tqm Concepts Of Leadership, Customer-Satisfactions, Employee Involvements, Continuous Process Improvement, And Supplier Partnership And Performance Measures. * It Covers Quality Systems, Bench Marking, Quality Function Deployment, Quality By Design, Experimental Design And Taguchi S Quality Engineering.
This concise introduction explains in simple terms exactly what quality management means in practice and shows how the basic principles can be implemented in large and small organizations. The authors provide an overview and history of the major approaches, from Deming to Ishikawa to Feigenbaum, and explain how their approaches differ. This concise introduction explains in simple terms exactly what quality management means in practice and shows how the basic principles can be implemented in large and small organizations. The authors provide an overview and history of the major approaches, from Deming to Ishikawa to Feigenbaum, and explain how their approaches differ.
The main purpose of this paper is to compare and discuss the evolution of six important management systems: Japanese Total Quality Control (JTQC), Total Quality Management (TQM), Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Lean Thinking and Six Sigma. Indeed the contribution of this work lies in the concurrent analysis and classification, by the means of a literature review, of the results and critical implementation factors of the six systems. Deming’s Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) has been used to classify the findings from the literature review.
This study investigates the relation of total quality management (TQM) and just-in-time purchasing (JITP) with respect to firms' performance, based on theories from operations management, organization theory, strategic management and marketing. U.S. companies have implemented TQM and JITP techniques to improve their global competitive position. The results indicate that the extent of TQM and JITP implementation positively correlates with a firm's performance. Furthermore, the relation between JITP and financial and market performance is more significant in those industries that face high as opposed to low foreign competition. In this study, the validity of findings was assessed in four parts: statistical conclusion, internal, construct, and external validity. Each validity type is defined and its threats are discussed. Based on the findings, a revised research model is offered. The author also notes likely avenues of future research for theorists and practitioners.