Total Quality Management: TQM TQM Tools and Techniques Case 7.1 Process Variation Exercise
Total Quality Management: TQM TQM Tools and Techniques Case 7.1 Process Variation Exercise
Total Quality Management: TQM TQM Tools and Techniques Case 7.1 Process Variation Exercise
TQM
The integration of all processes and functions of the firm in the task of ensuring a products quality throughout its life cycle. Measurement of Success:
Method of Achievement:
Requires a cultural change based on a management philosophy of meeting customer requirements through continuous improvement. Delco - lip service GM - more work for same pay Top Management must support TQM
Top managers serve as role models Use of quality processes and tools Encourage communication Put money where mouth is:
Mechanisms of Change
Axioms of TQM
Commitment to Quality Extensive Use of Scientific Tools, Technologies and Methods Total Involvement in the Quality Undertaking Continuous Improvement
Lack of Constancy Concentration on Short-Term Profits Over-reliance on Performance Appraisals Job Hopping Overemphasis on Visible Figures
Juran
Defined Quality and Cost of Quality Quality Habit Quality Trilogy University Breakthrough Sequence
Quality is Conformance to Requirements, Not Goodness Quality Systems Amount to Prevention Zero Defects Define the Performance Standard Measurement of Quality is the Price of Nonconformance
Check Sheets Pareto Analysis Cause and Effect (Fishbone) Diagrams Process Flow Diagrams Histograms
QFD
Quality Function Deployment - a set of methods to identify a of the major requirements of a firms customers and to evaluate how well the designs of product and OM processes meet or exceed those requirements
QFD links four matrices: 1. Customer requirements planning matrix 2. Technical features deployment matrix 3. Process plan and quality control charts 4. Translate critical process and product parameters into specifications for operations for plant personnel
House of Quality
Interrelationships
Technical Features
Voice of the Customer Relationship between Customer Desired Traits and Technical Features
Work towards dramatic, strategic breakthroughs for the organization 5 Key principles: 1. A planning and implementation process is defined to foster continuous improvement throughout the PDCA cycle 2. Identify key functions and systems within the firm that need to be improved for the firm to achieve its strategic objectives 3. It encourages appropriate cross-functional and vertical participation in planning to execution for achieving yearly objectives 4. All planning and execution are based on fact 5. Goals and action plans reflect the true capabilities of the organization
Implementing TQM
Define the mission Identify the system output Identify customers Determine customer requirements Develop a customer specification that details customer requirements and expectations. Determine the activities required to fulfill customer requirements and expectations
TQM Implementation
Baldrige Award initiated in 1987 Sets a national set of standards that can be used as a benchmark for TQM. Hundreds of thousands of major firms use the Baldrige criteria as a guide for quality improvement programs. A formula or template for TQM
Baldrige Award
not a contest not prescriptive not a guarantee of high quality Customers dictate it Formalized system in place not a contest not prescriptive not a guarantee of high quality
Baldrige Award
To raise the consciousness of U.S. business leaders regarding the issue of quality. To provide a comprehensive framework for measuring the quality efforts of U.S. businesses. To provide U.S. business with a template for a thorough TQM system.
Baldrige Award
Winners include:
It takes 8 to 12 years to develop a quality system that is competitive for the award
Leadership (110) Strategic Planning (80) Customer and Market Focus (80) Information and Analysis (80) Human Resource Development (100) Process Management (100) Business Results (450)
Customer Satisfaction Results (130) Financial and Market Results (130) Human Resource Results (35) Supplier and Partner Results (25) Company Specific Results (130)
ISO 9000
A generic term for a series of standards sponsored by the Organization for Standardization. Specifies the quality systems to be established by manufacturing and service firms. A system for establishing, documenting, and maintaining a system for ensuring the quality of the output of a process.
ISO 9000
review the facility,s quality manual audit the facilitys process unannounced audits annual re-certification
ISO 9000
Means of gaining access to EC markets Competitive requirement Customers dictate it Formalized system in place
TQM
Baldrige - You have to demonstrate results and achievement ISO - just looks for a system Both are stepping stones to becoming a TQM organization