QUALITY CIRCLES - UNDERSTANDING AND PRACTICING Birth of Quality Circles Quality Control Circle concept, which had its birth in Japan 25 years ago, has made its impact the World Over. In order to go into the values encompassed in the Quality Circles, ...

FEATURES OF JAPANESE QUALITY MANAGEMENT It is deisrable to study the salient features of Japanese Quality Manage­ment for drawing some lessons from it. First of all Japan is an Asian Country like ours, who has been successful of late in technical capability ...

QUALITY MANAGEMENT Quality Management principles and concepts are comparatively easy to grasp and they help to build the bridge of understanding in identifying the common Quality Mission. It also aids and enhances the capability to attain the "Fitness for use" at every stage ...

Distinction Between Chance and Assignable Causes of Variation    Chance Cause                                                                                                             Assignable Causes (i) Consist of many individual causes.                                                              Consist of one or just a few individual causes. (ii) Any one chance cause results in only a                                                      Any one assignable cause can result in ...

Quality Control and Breakthrough  Principles. The industrial quality data are of two types : Attributes: Number of welds rejected, number of defective holes, number of defects on an ingot or sheet, number of defects of various types on casting, etc. Variables: Length, weight, ...

PROCESS OF INTRODUCING QUALITY PROGRAM IN AN EXISTING ORGANISATION Fig. 18.8 depicts the process by which the quality program car be intro­duced in the existing organization. The Quality Assurance (QA) department should function independently; but it must interface with every department wherever ...

BASIC CONCEPTS OF QUALITY ASSURANCE PRO­GRAMMES Nowadays, there is a growing need for the recognition to provide real value to the customers, which in turn requires improvement in the quality of services. The improvement in the quality is more beneficial to ...