Honda is a large Japanese manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. It employs over 179,000 people and has subsidiaries like Acura. Honda implements total quality management to continuously improve products and processes. This involves management, workforce, suppliers, and customers. Honda uses a quality cycle and quality enhancement system to implement TQM using methods like the PDCA cycle to bridge gaps between targets and current performance. Honda also provides quality management education to improve worker skills. Honda recalled over 962,000 vehicles globally to repair power window problems.

1. TOTAL QUALITY
MANAGEMENT

2. introduction
Honda Motor Company, Ltd is a Japanese public
multinational corporation primarily known as a
manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.
Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle
manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest
manufacturer of internal combustion engines
Honda surpassed Nissan in 2001 to become the
second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer.
Honda is the sixth largest automobile manufacturer in
the world.
The company achieved the number one position among
all mass production cars sold in the USA

3. Type: Public company
Industry: Automotive, Aviation
Founded on 24 September 1948
Founder(s): Soichiro Honda, Takeo Fujisawa
Headquarters: Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Key people: Takanobu Ito (President, CEO, &
Representative Director)

4. products
Automobiles,
Motorcycles
Scooters ,
ATVs,
Electrical Generators,
Water pumps,
Lawn and Garden Equipments ,
Tillers,
Outboard motors,
Robotics,
Jets,
Jet Engines,
Thin-film solar cells

5. stats
Revenue: US$ 107.82 billion (2011)
Operating income: US$ 6.87 billion (2011)
Net income: US$ 6.44 billion (2011)
Total assets: US$ 139.61 billion (2011)
Total equity: US$ 53.69 billion (2011)
Employees:179,060 (2011)
Subsidiaries: Acura, Honda Aircraft Company

6. Current market position
With high fuel prices and a weak U.S. economy in June
2008, Honda reported a 1% sales increase while its rivals, including
the Detroit Big Three and Toyota, have reported double-digit losses.
Honda's sales were up almost 20 percent from the same month last
year. The Civic and the Accord were in the top five list of sales.
Analysts have attributed this to two main factors. First, Honda's
product lineup consists of mostly small to mid-size, highly fuel-
efficient vehicles.
Secondly, over the last ten years, Honda has designed its factories
to be flexible, in that they can be easily retooled to produce any
Honda model that may be in-demand at the moment.
At the 2008 Beijing Auto Show, Honda announced that they were
looking to develop an entry-level brand exclusively for the Chinese
market similar to Toyota's Scion brand in the USA

7. Cutting-edge technology
Their fundamental design philosophy seeks to maximise
space and comfort for people, while minimising the space
required for mechanical components. With this aim in
mind, Honda's R&D activities include product-specific
development and fundamental research.
Some of the technologies include,
 Combi Break System
 HondaMatic Transmission
 Fuel Injection System
 Idle Stop System
 Honda Fuel Cell Vehicle, Honda FCX

8. Management policy
Honda works to ensure that the products and
services result in 3 joys:
Joy for people who buy them.
Joy for those who sell them and
Joy for people who produce them.

9. QUALITY OBJECTIVE
Maintain an international viewpoint , we are
dedicated to supplying products of the highest
efficiency yet at a reasonable price for
worldwide customer satisfaction.

10. Honda products

12. TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Total quality management or TQM is an integrative
philosophy of management for continuously improving
the quality of products and processes.
TQM functions on the premise that the quality of
products and processes is the responsibility of everyone
who is involved with the creation or consumption of the
products or services offered by an organization.
In other words, TQM capitalizes on the involvement of
management, workforce, suppliers, and even
customers, in order to meet or exceed customer
expectations

13. Honda’s quality cycle

14. Honda’s quality enHancement
system

15. TQM AT HONDA

16. TQM METHODOLOGY AT HONDA
To implement TQM, the CEO has strengthened :
Customer focused viewpoint.
Increased efficiency.
Cost cutting efforts.
Delegation of authority.
Expediting daily operations.
New product development.

17. PDCA CYCLE
Basic principle of TQM is to bridge the gap
between ―Target‖ and ―Status quo‖.
PDCA cycle to bridge the gap :
Make initial plan.
Implement the plan.
Analyse the outcome.
Recognise new problems and improve the
process of operation.
Repeat process till target is achieved.

18. Implementing quality
management education
In Japan, Honda offers a training curriculum
divided into four courses according to in-house
qualifications and the extent of individual
workers' quality control responsibilities in order
to improve associates' quality assurance skills.
The Honda QC Basic Course (HBC), which was
first offered 40 years ago, provides an example of
how Honda is working to train its personnel to be
leaders in improving quality.

20. CONCLUSION
Honda operates a TQM system. Its philosophy is to push quality
back to the supplier, expecting the products to arrive defect free to
Honda’s defined level. But this won’t ever stop the company from
checking.
―With the tolerances and the complexity of some of the
components, we’ve found that some suppliers are not always able to
guarantee meeting our specs – so we rely heavily on inspection. For
the more critical components, particularly safety critical
components, we carry out 100% inspection,‖ says Honda.
Operations Director, Professor Gary Savage, adds: ―Last season
Honda recorded zero stoppages due to reliability of the chassis. The
TQM system clearly contributed significantly to this. Our aim now
is to maintain this record as we move forward – and the system and
processes will develop in order to facilitate this aim.‖

21. TOKYO—Honda Motor Co. said it would voluntarily
recall 962,000 cars world-wide to repair problems with
power window.
The car maker said no serious injuries or fatal accidents
have been reported as a result of the problems. The
company estimated it would spend ¥1.29 billion ($16.8
million) in Japan for the recall.
Honda, Japan's third-biggest car maker by
volume, recalled more than 2.3 million vehicles in early
August, citing problems with automatic transmissions.
A Honda spokeswoman said there were nine reported
cases of vehicles catching on fire in Japan and China
because of the power-window problem. She also said
two people reported light burns after touching
overheated switches.