JURAN TRILOGY
presented by Dr. Joseph M. Juran in 1986
the Juran Trilogy is a universal way of thinking about
quality—it fits all functions, all levels, and all product
and service lines.
Juran emphasized that the management team
should commit to not only the customers but also
the suppliers and most importantly the employees.
THE JURAN TRILOGY OF QUALITY CONSISTS
OF THREE BASIC QUALITY ORIENTED
PROCESS MANAGEMENT, WHICH ARE:
Quality Planning
Quality Control
Quality Improvement
Process for preparing to meet
Quality Planning quality goals.
Identify customers and determine
customers’ needs.
Develop processes to produce the
product that respond to customers’
needs
Establishing quality goals
Design and Establish process controls
Transfer the resulting plans to
operating forces.
Process for meeting quality goals
Quality Control during operations.
Choosing control subjects and unit of
measurement
Establishing a measurement
procedure or methods
Measure and evaluate actual quality
performance.
Interpreting differences and compares actual
performance to quality goals.
Taking action to correct the differences
between the real performance and what the
pre-established standard should be.
Quality The process for breaking through to
unprecedented levels of
Improvement performance
Establish the infrastructure to secure annual quality
improvement
Identify needs for improvement or so called the
improvement projects
Establish project teams to each project, who
would be responsible for bringing the project to a
successful conclusion.
Provide resources, motivation and training
needed to diagnose the cause, stimulate
establishment of remedies, provide corrective
and preventive action & establish controls to
hold the gains.
4 Different Strategies to
Improvement
Repair • Reactive; fix what is broken.
• Proactive; continually improve a
Refinement process that isn’t broken.
• Improvement through innovation or
Renovation technological advancement.
Reinvention • Start over with a clean slate.
Figure 1. The Juran Trilogy Diagram