Total Quality Management (TQM) involves a systematic approach to quality management that focuses on improving quality in all areas of an organization. It includes six basic concepts: 1) committed and involved management, 2) focus on both internal and external customers, 3) effective involvement of the entire workforce, 4) continuous improvement, 5) treating suppliers as partners, and 6) establishing performance measures for processes. The document provides further details on each of these six concepts of TQM.
Overview of Total Quality Management (TQM) by Muhammad Asif, outlining basic concepts.
TQM's evolution from WWI quality assurance, addressing poor manufacturing quality and initial skepticism.
TQM is a comprehensive quality management system involving all organizational functions and employee participation.
Six fundamental concepts of TQM: management commitment, customer focus, workforce involvement, continuous improvement, supplier partnerships, and performance measures.
Key role of management in TQM, establishing quality councils, vision, and continuous quality improvement programs.
Importance of customers in TQM, aiming to satisfy both internal and external customers through a customer-oriented approach.
Emphasizing workforce participation in TQM, promoting employee empowerment, and responsibility for decision-making.
Focusing on continuous improvement in processes, with specific initiatives like on-time delivery and customer satisfaction.
History Of TQM
•TQM has evolved from the quality assurance
that was first developed at the time first
World War.
• Large Scale Manufacturing produce poor
quality
• Quality inspectors introduce to reduce the
failure of Quality.
• In 20th century TQM was considered a fad by
many business leaders.
4.
Defination Of TQM
TQMis the system approach to quality
management. It is the improvement of quality of
not only the product, but also the total quality
management of all the process and function in
the organization such as, manufacturing,
distribution, administration, communicaton,
marketing, procurement and so on. TQM involve
the participaton of all the employees of the
organization for this purpose.
5.
Six Basic Conceptsof TQM
• A committed and involved management
• Focus on the customer both internally and
externally
• Effective involvement and utilization of the entire
work force
• Continuous improvement
• Treating suppliers as partners
• Establish Performance measures for the
processes
6.
A committed andinvolved management
• Management must participate in the quality
program
• A quality Council must be established to
develop a clear vision
• An annual quality improvement program is
established
• TQM is a continual activity that must be
entrenched in the culture.
7.
Focus on thecustomer both internally and
externally
• Customer consider as most important asset of
an organization
• The key to an effective TQM program if its
focus on the customer
• An excellent place to start is by satisfying
internal customers
• An organization must define all its process and
function with customer point of view
8.
Effective involvement andutilization
of the entire work force
• TQM is organization wide challenge that is
everyone responsibility
• A satisfy employee will work his best for the
attainment of organization goal
• Another way to involve the employees is
Employees empowerment
• Employee empowerment simply is the
individual responsibility for decision making
on organization
9.
Continuous improvement
• Continuousimprovement of the business and
production process
• Quality improvement projects such as,
• on time delivery
• customer satisfaction
• scrap satisfaction
• billing error rate
• cycle time
• supplier management are good places to begin.