Posts Tagged Total Quality Management
What is 5S?
Posted by 1Q8 in Quality Concepts on July 30th, 2009
5S is a philosophy and a way of organizing and managing the workspace and work flow with the intent to improve efficiency by eliminating “muda” or waste, improving work flow and reducing process unevenness. The term 5S comes from a list of five Japanese words which start with the letter S.
It’s sometimes referred [...]
Total Quality Management
Posted by 1Q8 in Quality Concepts on July 25th, 2009
Total Quality Management – TQM is a management strategy aimed at embedding awareness of quality throughout the organization and approach to long-term success through customer satisfaction and continuously improve the business processes.
TQM has been widely used in all different organization, manufacturing, education, government, service industries, as well as NASA space and science programs.
In a TQM [...]


