EVOLUTION OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT
EVOLUTION OF TQM
Early 20th Century- Quality meant inspection. Reactive in nature.
1980's- Quality began to have strategic meaning.
Proactive in nature.
Successful companies understand that quality provides a competitive advantage.
Put customer first, and define quality as meeting or exceeding customers expectation.
Quality excellence has become a standard for doing business.
QUALITY GURUS
People behind Quality
Walter Shewhart (1920s & 1930s)
Bell Telephone Engineer
Grandfather of Statistical Quality Control (SQC).
Contributed to understand the process of variability.
Developed concept of statistical control charts.
William Edwards Deming (1940s & 1950s)
Father of Statistical Quality Control
Deming's Cycle (PDCA)
Stressed management's responsibility for quality
Developed "14" points to guide companies in quality improvement.
Japanese established "Deming Prize" in his name
15% of quality problems are actually due to worker error
85% of quality problems are caused by systems and errors
JOSEPH M. JURAN (1950)
• Defined quality as "fitness for use"
- Developed concept of cost of quality
• Originated idea of quality trilogy
Quality planning
Quality control
Quality improvement
JURAN'S QUALITY PLANNING ROADMAP
1.Identify your customers.
2.Determine their needs.
3.Translate them into your language.
4.Develop a product that can respond to the needs.
5.Develop processes, which are able to produce those product features.
6.Prove that the process can produce the product.
7.Transfer the resulting plans to the operating forces.