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Quality Definition

Quality :

Fitness for use; meets intended purpose, performs satisfactory in service for a specified time.

Quality Assurance (QA)

Planned, systematic procedures and actions to assure that the engineering design, materials, equipment, structures, and systems comprising a facility will, on completion, conform to specified requirements and meet the intended purpose.

Quality Control (QC)

Part of quality assurance which, through check, reviews, measurements, test, inspections, determine the specifications are met

TQC in Japan

Now Japan is the one of state in the word which is leading in supplying product with high quality standard. The product is acceptable and use in word wide. Japan has succeeded for implementing the Total quality Control (TQC). The following activities is the one of proven evident report which already done to reach and develop the Japanese TQC :

  • •Quality Control Annual Conference (The first in 1962)
  • •Quality Month and Q Mark (Q Flag). (Q Month is November every year. The design of Q Flag changes of the Color of flag, first blue than changed by red)
  • •Journals for SQC and FQC (By JUSE, first publication in1949 and developed in 1962)
  • •QC Circle activities (By JUSE and Japan Broadcasting Corporation NHK)
  • •Deming Prizes (The first awarded in September 1951 in Osaka, if contributed to dissemination and development of theories relating to statistical quality control)
  • •QC implementation in Different Industries (Instead of thinking about he reasons that you can not do, why try to discover what you can do?). TQC simply means that we do what we are supposed to do)
  • •Study Group on Sampling (QC is often called “Management by facts and data”)
  • •The one of Japanese people who is become contributed leader for TQC in Japan is
  • •Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa. He discovered of “Fishbone Diagram”. The famous slogan Dr. Ishikawa;
    • –The next process is our customer
    • – TQC simply means that we do what we are supposed to do
    • QC is a thought revolution in management.

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