Quality

  • Two types of Quality
    • Performance Quality: Design specifications and defined features
    • Conformance Quality: Execution of specifications and processes. After a product or service is defined, ongoing focus is conformance to the specification 100% of the time.
  • W. Edwards Deming and J.M. Juran in Japan
  • Total Quality Management (TQM) — Quality extended to the entire organization
    • Everyone in the workplace is responsible for quality
    • Everyone has a direct customer
  • ISO 9000 Quality Standards
    • International Organization for Standardization
    • ISO 9001:2008 — Standard for Quality Management System that can be certified
  • Cost of Poor Quality — Up to 10-15% of the revenue is lost in inefficiencies in a 3-sigma company
    • Returns
    • Warranties
    • Scrap
    • Quality team/Inspections
    • Lost sales and revenue
    • Unsatisfied / lost customers
    • Poor asset utilization
    • Inefficiencies throughout organization
    • Excess inventories
    • Expediting costs
    • Re-work
    • Long cycles (production, delivery, collection)

Foundation

  • Quality is Conformance to the specifications!
  • “85%” of the responsibility for quality is leadership
    • Leadership role is to provide tools, training and culture
    • Quality, Safety, Cost and Delivery are Equals
  • Everyone must be a zero defect producer — do it right the first time
  • Everyone must be an inspector –- catch defects as they happen
  • The system of Quality is prevention
  • The performance standard is Zero Defects
  • The measurement of Quality is the cost of non-conformance

Tools