Total Quality Management The key to business improvement

Quality is a customer issue. It arises because customers require products and services, which not only meet their performance requirements but are satisfac­ tory in terms of safety, length of working life and pride of ownership. In a manufacturing organization, therefore, the achievement of quality...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peratec Ltd
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1994, 1994
Edition:1st ed. 1994
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • One Introduction and Executive Summary
  • How to use this book
  • Total Quality...is it really a strategic issue?
  • Two A Total Quality Approach
  • Overview
  • Section 1 — The basic concepts of Total Quality
  • Section 2 — A model management framework for Total Quality
  • Section 3 — Starting the change to Total Quality
  • Three Executive Encyclopaedia of Total Quality Processes and Techniques
  • An alphabetical series of technique briefings overviewing the major Total Quality processes, tools and techniques
  • Four Profiles of Success Through Total Quality
  • Boots The Chemists
  • Cossor Electronics
  • Dowty
  • Express Engineering
  • Gwent Health Authority
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • IBM
  • National Westminster Bank
  • Nissan
  • Pitney Bowes
  • Sony
  • Conclusion — The key factors of success
  • About the major contributors
  • Other sources of help