TQM

TQM

Encompasses entire organization, from supplier to customer.

Stresses a commitment by management to have a continuing, company-wide, drive toward excellence in all aspects of products and services that are important to the customer.

Deming’s Fourteen Points

1. Create consistency of purpose

2. Lead to promote change

3. Build quality into the products

4. Build long term relationships

5. Continuously improve product, quality,

and service

6. Start training

7. Emphasize leadership

8. Drive out fear

9. Break down barriers between

departments

10. Stop haranguing workers

11. Support, help, improve

12. Remove barriers to pride in work

13. Institute a vigorous program of

education and self-improvement

14. Put everybody in the company to work

on the transformation.

Concepts of TQM

1. Continuous improvement

2. Employee empowerment

3. Benchmarking

4. Just-in-time (JIT)

5. Taguchi concepts

6. Knowledge of TQM tools

Tools of TQM

¨ Tools for generating ideas

¨ Check sheet

¨ Scatter diagram

¨ Cause and effect diagram

¨ Tools to organize data

¨ Pareto charts

¨ Process charts (Flow diagrams)

¨ Tools for identifying problems

¨ Histograms

¨ Statistical process control chart

 
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