The Quality Walk Beth Stuart went on a tour to evaluate a potential supplier’s facility before her company‚ Epic Communications‚ entered into a long term contract for 1.2 million high speed communications circuit boards. Her tour guide was Michael Spade‚ VP of manufacturing for PushTel. If the relationship proved beneficial to both parties‚ follow-up contracts would be negotiated each year thereafter. Beth noticed during her walk that employees were disappearing into their offices and down connecting
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CASE: DOUGLAS ELECTRICAL INC Summary: Jim Essinger is a management consultant and training specialist from St. Louis who specializes in continuous process improvement and total quality management. Each month‚ he goes to Springfield‚ Illinois and provides three days of training to employees of a privately owned electrical wholesaler-distributor‚ Douglas Electrical Supply Inc. One of the attendee is Tony‚ from Quincy branch. Based on Jim and Tony’s conversation‚ Tony seem to be confused
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the Pharmaceutical Quality System Richard L. Friedman Food & Drug Administration‚ Center for Drug Evaluation & Research‚ Division of Manufacturing & Product Quality ABSTRACT: This paper summarizes parenteral drug contamination case studies presented at industry conferences and a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee meeting in the period of 2000-2004. CGMP deficiencies associated with each contamination event are discussed. The key role of a well-functioning quality system in contamination
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Quality of Work Life Quality of work life (QWL) is viewed as an alternative to the control approach of managing people. The QWL approach considers people as an ’asset’ to the organization rather than as ‘costs’. It believes that people perform better when they are allowed to participate in managing their work and make decisions. This approach motivates people by satisfying not only their economic needs but also their social and psychological ones. To satisfy the new generation workforce‚ organizations
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Fundamental Factors Affecting Quality The nine fundamental factors (9 M’s)‚ which are affecting the quality of products and services‚ are: markets‚ money‚ management‚ men‚ motivation‚ materials‚ machines and mechanization. Modern information methods and mounting product requirements. 1. Market: Because of technology advancement‚ we could see many new products to satisfy customer wants. At the same time‚ the customer wants are also changing dynamically. So‚ it is the role of companies to identify
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123 Strategic Quality Planning Quality is strategic. This may seem somewhat obvious‚ but the actions of Companies implementing quality measures oftenobscure this fact. This is especially true when a comÑpany is in a reactive mode and does notjise effective planning. In this chapter we discuss iinpörtant aspeêts of strategic quality planning. Strategic planning has two important dimensions: content and pro ess. Strategy content answers the question of what is to be contained in the strategic plan
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------------------------------------------------- operatıons management project report Cost management through product design: target costing approach‚ Yasemin Zengin and Erhan Ada In this paper‚ target costing tool combined with other management techniques‚ namely Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Value Engineering (VE)‚ has been focused with a case study. In this case study‚ QFD-TC (Target Costing) methodology has been executed in a SME (Small and medium enterprises) and it is showed that
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employees must focus on providing customers with the highest quality customer service possible. The challenge is to devise a way of organizing and controlling employees that will promote high-quality service that will encourage employees to be committed to the hotel‚ and that will reduce the level of employee turnover and absenteeism—which are typically high in the hotel business. Questions 1. How do the various theories of management discussed in this chapter offer clues for organizing and
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QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION Dr.R.Sivakumar Assistant Professor of Education Annamalai University Introduction Higher Education Institutions are frequently the focus of attention since they represent valuable resources for any country. They produce the educated men and women that often become the social‚ political‚ technological‚ economic‚ and religious leaders of the country. Because of the changes that have occurred in the restructuring of the education system as well s
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Implement Quality Improvement at Riordan Manufacturing Continual improvements are essential for businesses to attain a competitive advantage in their industry and remain profitable. Riordan Manufacturing must apply Total Quality Management (TQM) to their organizational processes to eliminate waste‚ reduce costs‚ increase productivity‚ and focus on customer satisfaction. This paper identifies an improvement plan by outlining the steps of Riordan Manufacturing’s developed quality management process
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