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QUALITY – MEANING:
• A good product
• Sturdy
• Durable
• Easy to operate
• Good in appearance, etc.
These features, when associated with product define
quality in a broader sense that means a product that:
QUALITY CONTROL:
TOOLS/TECHNIQUES OF TQM:
• Reliability
• Maintainability
• Safety
KAIZEN:
1. Maintenance
2. Improvement
1. Maintenance:
2. Improvement:
The improvement function is aimed at improving current
standards.
• Voluntarily
• Regularly
• In normal working time
• Under the leadership of their supervisor
• To identify, analyze and solve "work-related"
problems
• To recommend solutions to management
NATURE OF TQM:
TQM MODEL:
BENEFITS OF TQM:
EFFECTIVE TQM:
As TQM is a necessity for any business organisation and
its effective implementation cannot be overlooked for
successful achievement of organisational goals through
customer satisfaction, the following guidelines will help
in its successful implementation:
1. It should aim at customer satisfaction through active
involvement of all people across the functional areas and
organisational hierarchy.
2. Not only involvement, it must also aim at
commitment on the part of all those who are associated
with the TQM programme to implement it successfully.
3. Education, training, measurement, accountability,
recognition, reward, teamwork and communication are
the backbone of effective TQM.
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PRINCIPLES OF TQM:
The task force set up for revising the ISO (International
Organization for Standardization) 9000 series of
standards decided that organizations can continually
improve their performance if they follow the following
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