Fundamentals of Total Quality Management
1 Introduction
2 Historical evolution of Total Quality Management
3 Some definitions of quality
4. Philosophy, principles and concepts of TQM
5. Quality management systems and standardization
6. Tools for the quality journey ( 7 QC Tools)
1. Check sheets
2. The Pareto diagram
3. The cause-and-effect diagram
4. Histograms
5. Control charts
6. Scatter diagrams and the connection with the stratification principle
7. Flow Charts
7. The seven new management tools
1. Affinity Diagram [KJ method]
2. Interrelationship diagram.
3. Tree diagram.
4. Prioritization matrix.
5. Matrix diagram or quality table.
6. Process decision program chart.
7. Activity network diagram
8. Benchmarking
1. What is benchmarking?
2. What can be benchmarked?
3. How is benchmarking carried through?
9. Leadership, policy deployment and quality motivation
1. Introduction
2. The PDCA Leadership Model—a model for policy deployment
3. Leadership and quality motivation
4. Conclusion
10. Implementation process (PDCA)
1. Introduction
2. Four stages of implementation
3. Plan
4. Do
5. Check
6. Act