Author: A. Richard Shores ISBN: 0873891090 / 9780873891097 Year: 1990 Availability: Out of Stock
Learn how to successfully implement world-class manufacturing in this comprehensive guide to total quality management.
In addition to discussing individual strategies, Shores presents a management ...
Author: Timothy Braithwaite ISBN: 0873892712 / 9780873892711 Year: 1994 Availability: In Stock
This book presents an application of total quality management (TQM) principles, tools, and techniques to the business of defining, constucting, and delivering automated information systems and servi...
Author: Dough Hutchinson ISBN: 0873892526 / 9780873892520 Year: 1994 Availability: Out of Stock
This book takes the basic tenets of quality principles and practices and applies them to total quality management in the clinical laboratory. This management system can be implemented in many differ...
Author: Patrick J. Sweeney ISBN: 0527917184 / 9780527917180 Year: 1993 Availability: In Stock
TQM for Engineering shows managers, research scientists, and design engineers how to integrate quality concepts ino the technical environment, contribute as key members of the TQM team, and transfor...
Author: Mohammed Zairi ISBN: 0884151506 / 9780884151500 Year: 1991 Availability: In Stock
Although the concept of quality is familiar to engineers, their treatment of it has always been narrowly focused. Many people, including engineers, are still wrestling with the diffcultis associated...
Author: John Persico ISBN: 0527916544 / 9780527916541 Year: 1992 Availability: In Stock
The TQM Transformation: A Model for Organizational Change clarifies and demonstrates this organization-wide transformation process, presenting managers with a useful model for institutionalizing qua...
Author: Dorsey J. Talley ISBN: 0873890957 / 9780873890953 Year: 1991 Availability: In Stock
This book not only provides the reader with a list of measurements you can slect from, it also provides a methodology that will allow you to expand on (Talley's) excellent work, modifying it to suit...
Author: H. James Harrington ISBN: 0071347038 / 9780071347037 Year: 1999 Availability: In Stock
Are your organization's management and employees in complete harmony, not only about how each activity's quality and productivity are measured, but also about what is considered acceptable performan...
Author: John M. Kelly ISBN: 8174890033 / 9788174890030 Year: 2000 Availability: In Stock
TQM: A How to Program for the High-Performance Business focuses on the nuts and bolts of taking small steps to produce big results tin terms of improved productivity, customer service, and profitabi...
Author: Thomas J. Cartin ISBN: 0873894286 / 9780873894289 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
Many organizations have realized bona fide reward payoffs using a systematic continuous approach to quality and quality improvement. Divided into two sections, this book begins with an easy overview...
Author: Deming, W. Edwards ISBN: 8176710377 / 9788176710374 Year: 2008 Availability: In Stock
In the classic Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1986, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he cla...
Author: Mawby, William D. ISBN: 0873896335 / 9780873896337 Year: 2005 Availability: In Stock
There is a forgotten process in modern quality management that is preventing many companies from reaching their full potential for improvement – and that is the decision making process. Some d...
Author: Peter Merrill ISBN: 1563271753 / 9781563271755 Year: 1997 Availability: In Stock
Is your organization looking back on its quality process and saying, "it failed"? Are you concerned that TQM is just another fad, only to be replaced by the next improvement movement? Don't jump shi...
Author: Charles G. Cobb ISBN: 0873896432 / 9780873896436 Year: 2005 Availability: Out of Stock
Many books on process mapping are oriented around a traditional manufacturing process control environment. The methodology and tools in this book are applicable to any company in any industry that i...
Author: Yoji Akao ISBN: 1138031798 / 9781138031791 Availability: In Stock
How do you bridge the sometimes overwhelming gap between your corporate goals and the deployment of those goals?
Hoshin Kanri, the Japanese term for policy deployment, is an approach to strategic...
Author: Kiyoshi Uchimaru, Susumu Okamoto ISBN: 1563270056 / 9781563270055 Year: 1993 Availability: Out of Stock
Achieving total quality in product design and development is a daunting but essential goal for technical personnel. Much of what has been written about the tools and practice of total quality manage...
Author: D.H. Stamatis ISBN: 1032417692 / 9781032417691 Year: 2023 Availability: In Stock
This practical resource establishes a sound rationale for the continuation of Total Quality Management (TQM) in all organizations, offering a model and an implementation strategy, as well as traditi...
Author: Noriaki Kano ISBN: 9283311302 / 9789283311300 Year: 1996 Availability: Out of Stock
As the service sector in the world’s economies increasingly represents more and more of the workforce, the need for this economic sector to stay productive, focused, and effective increases. T...
Author: Anderson, Gaylord F.; Dell, Larry D.; Wilson, Paul F. ISBN: 0873891635 / 9780873891639 Year: 1993 Availability: In Stock
This book describes the methods and tools used to develop and implement an effective TQM program. It provides a practical explanation of root cause analysis and discusses the proactive use of analys...
Author: John D. Hromi ISBN: 0873892860 / 9780873892865 Year: 1995 Availability: In Stock
Volume 5 of The Best on Quality series reports on national and international quality award activities that help foster quality growth.
Among the renowned contributors to this volume include: Yoshi ...
Author: John D. Hromi ISBN: 0873893891 / 9780873893893 Year: 1997 Availability: In Stock
Volume 8 of the Best on Quality series centers on the applications of quality system standards in small to medium-sized businesses, in health care, in regards to the environment, in former centrally...
Author: Patrick A. Hough ISBN: 1860760473 / 9781860760471 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
This work describes the trials and tribulations of the narrator in his attempt to implement Total Quality Management in the fictionalized company LoQualScan. Amid staff bickering, turf battles and...
Author: Peter Merrill ISBN: 0873897331 / 9780873897334 Year: 2009 Availability: Out of Stock
Failure of a quality initiative, either in part or in whole, can happen to any organization. What differentiates successful organizations is that they learn from their failures and do it right the s...
Author: John Hradesky ISBN: 0070305110 / 9780070305113 Year: 1995 Availability: In Stock
total approach to TQM that guarantees success. TQM is so multifaceted--and afects so many apsects of an organization--that embracing it piecemeal often leads to disaster. The answer? The complete, i...
Author: H. G. Menon ISBN: 0070415323 / 9780070415324 Year: 1992 Availability: Out of Stock
This book shows both engineers and managers how to systematize this process by using techniques to reduce variation, and thereby reduce cost. It explains the mathematical and statistical tools used ...