Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Assertiveness of improvement
suggestions
6. Result Of Quality Assurance Of 6. Standardization
Product & Servicing
Quality of product & servicing from System for the control of quality &
customer’s viewpoint related matters
Comparison of competitiveness of Control items & control points
product & servicing
Customer servicing & countermeasure Utilization of such statistical
for complaint control methods as control charts
& other statistical concepts
Assurance from customer’s viewpoint Contribution to performance of QC
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Technique to grasp customer Actual conditions of control
satisfaction activities
8. Quality Assurance
Measurement of results
Substantive results in quality,
services, delivery time, cost, profits,
safety environment
Intangible results
Measures for overcoming defects
10. Planning For The Future
Benefits of PNQA
Provides a simple language to make TQM easy to understand the criteria
Provides guidance to organizations and Helps them to invest wisely in improvement
Provides a way of measuring progress and performance
Provides feedback to help improvement
Provides learning & benchmarking opportunities
Improves efficiencies and effectiveness in organizations
Eligibility
Following five eligibility categories of the award:
Manufacturing companies
Service organizations
Small & Medium businesses / enterprise
Healthcare organizations
Agriculture
Number of Assessors Member
1. Three Members may be the best.
2. Two sometime result the Leader and an Assistant. Leader may exert dominant influence.
3. Many Members sometime take long time to reach the Consensus, when a certain Assessor
sticks to his own thought.
JQA Experience
JQA applied over six members at the beginning. (1997). In order to give many examiners the
chance of experience has reduced three examiners and some observers from 2003. IQA (Itabashi)
applied three members from the beginning. (1998)
Customer-Driven Quality- the organization’s focus on its customers and the ability to ensure its
operations meet their needs
Visionary Leadership - senior leaders’ capacity for setting key directions for the organization by
action and example
Continuous improvement and Learning - the ability of the organization to acquire, share and use
knowledge to improve
Employee participation and development- employees commitment, involvement, training
recognition safety and satisfaction in order to optimize the opportunities for success in their work
environment
Fast Response- ensuring flexibility and the capacity to act speedily
Design quality & Prevention- Preventing problems at a design stage rather than production or
service delivery.
Partnership Development- Building labor -management relationship and suppliers and the
company and the company – customers partnerships
Focus on the Future – Developing partnership and operating strategically and possessing a long-
range commitment
Management by Fact - reliance on data and analysis in decision making
Corporate Responsibility and Citizenship - proactive and responsive commitment to the needs
and concerns of the community and larger public
Result orientation- Performance system needs to focus on results and should be balanced in the
interest of all stakeholders. Correlation with field results and financial indicators.
Criteria Framework
System- The system comprises the set of well-defined and well-designed processes for meeting the
company’s customer and performance requirements
Measures of Progress and Goal- The goal – i.e., the basic aims of the system are the delivery of ever-
improving value to customers and success in the marketplace.