24. Quality Control
Quality Control involves monitoring specific project
results to determine if they comply with relevant
quality standards, and identifying ways to eliminate
causes of unsatisfactory results
34. TQM Support Mechanism
Systematic Planning
Tools for measuring delivering and sustaining
quality
Organizing for quality & developing teams
Communication between all parts of the
organization
Commitment of the organization to a TQM
approach
Recognition and perhaps change of the
organizations’ culture & environment
35.
36.
37. Five Pillars of TQM
Product
Processes
Organization
Leadership
Commitment
38. TQM
A management approach centered on quality, based on
company-wide participation and aimed at long term
success through customer satisfaction (ISO)
39. TQM
Based on company-wide participation
TQM involves everyone in an organization -every
function and every activity
40. Evolution of Quality
1200-1799
Guilds of
Medieval Europe
1800-1899
Product
Orientation
1900-1940
Process
Orientation
1941-1945
Quality during
World War II
1946-Present
Birth of Total
Quality
41. Guilds of Medieval Europe
(1200-1799)
Craftsmen across Europe organized into unions
called Guilds
Guilds were responsible for developing strict rules
for product and service quality
Inspection committees enforced the rules by
identifying flawless goods with a special mark
A second quality mark came from the craftsmen
themselves
Primary Focus: Product Inspection
42. Product Orientation
(1800-1899)
US quality practices in the 1800s were shaped by
several different production methods:
Craftsmanship
The Factory System
The Taylor System
43. Craftsmanship
Early 19th century- the approach tended to follow the
craftsmanship model in the European countries
Masters maintained a form of quality control by
inspecting goods before sale
44. The Factory System
This is a product of the industrial revolution in
Europe
The craftsmen became factory workers and the
shop owners their production supervisors
Quality in the factory system was ensured through
skilled laborers and supplemented by audits
and/or inspections
Large production departments employed full-time
inspectors who produced quality reports and
Defective products were either reworked or
scrapped.
45. The Taylor System
In the late 19th century US broke from European
tradition and adopted a new management approach
by Taylor
Taylor’s goal was to increase productivity without
increasing the no. of skilled craftsmen
He achieved this by assigning factory planning to
specialized engineers and using displaced workers
and supervisors to execute the engineers plans
This new approach led to remarkable rises in
productivity
BUT …
46. The Taylor System
Workers once again stripped of their dwindling power
and the new emphasis was on productivity which had
an adverse effect on quality
48. Process Orientation
(1900-1940)
Beginning of the 20th century marked the inclusion of
processes in quality practices
Shewhart recognized that industrial processes yield
data.
He determined that this data can be analyzed using
statistical techniques to see if a process is stable or “in
control” or if is being affected by special causes that
should be fixed.
His concepts are referred to as “Statistical Quality
Control” (SQC)
Primary Focus: Product Inspection & SQC
49. Quality during World War II
(1941-1945)
After World War II had started, US enacted legislation to
help gear the civilian economy to military production
At that time contracts were awarded to manufacturers who
submitted the lowest bid. Products were inspected upon
delivery
The armed forces inspected virtually every unit of product
to ensure that it was safe for operation
To ease this problem, the armed forces began to utilize
sampling inspection to replace unit-by-unit inspection
They adopted sampling tables and published them in a
military standard Mil-Std-105
They also helped their suppliers improve their quality by
sponsoring training courses in Shewhart’s SQC techniques
Primary Focus: Sampling Inspection & SQC
50. Birth of Total Quality
(1946-Present)
After World War II, major Japanese manufacturers
converted from producing military goods for internal
use to civilian goods for trade
Poor response from the world market
Japan started exploring new ways of thinking about
quality (Deming and Juran)
Rather than relying purely on product inspection, total
quality focused on improving all organizational
processes through the people who used them
51. Birth of Total Quality
(1946-Present)
Juran, at a conference of the European organization for
quality control in Sweden made the following
prediction
“The Japanese are headed for world quality leadership
and will attain it in the next two decades because no
one else is moving at the same pace”
52. America’s Response
Initially US clung to its assumption that Japanese
success was price related and responded with
strategies aimed at reducing domestic production
costs and restricting imports. This did not prove
beneficial
By the end of the 1970’s US reached a major quality
crisis.
They started to think “if Japan can.. Why can’t we?
CEO of top US organizations then took an
initiative