Comprehensive Guide to Quality Management
Comprehensive Guide to Quality Management
By
S.N Mishra
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
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Definition of Quality
Management
Components of Quality
Dimensions of Quality •Planning
•Assurance
•Cost
•Control
Quality
Pareto Principle
Managemen Total Quality
t Management
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DEFINITION OF QUALITY
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ROLE OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT
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DIMENSIONS OF QUALITY
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DIMENSIONS OF QUALITY
• Performance: Performance refers to a product's primary
operating characteristics. This dimension of quality
involves measurable attributes; brands can usually be
ranked objectively on individual aspects of performance.
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COMPONENTS OF QUALITY
Control Improvememt
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PLANNING
• Quality control planning is the first step.
• Requirements must be identified, a criteria needs to be
set,
• Important procedure must be recognized as a part of the
plan.
• A quality plan sets out the desired product qualities and
how these are assessed and define the most significant
quality attributes
• It should define the quality assessment process
• It should set out which organisational standards should be
applied and, if necessary, define new standards
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PLANNING STRUCTURE
• Product introduction
• Product plans
• Process descriptions
• Quality goals
• Risks and risk management
• Quality plans should be short, succinct documents
• If they are too long, no-one will read them
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QUALITY CONTROL
• Quality control is needed to review the quality of the
product or service.
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OBJECTIVES OF QUALITY CONTROL
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STAGES OF QUALITY ASSURANCE
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QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
• There is always room for improvement.
• Through quality improvement, the results can be
measured and possible improvements in products or
services can be made.
• It is a systematic, formal approach to the analysis of
practice performance and efforts to improve
performance. A variety of approaches—or QI models
—exist to help you collect and analyze data and test
change.
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PDCA: Plan-Do-Check-Act
It is a cyclic method for continuous improvement of processes
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PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
Kaizen Implementation
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QUALITY COST
• Quality costs are the all the costs that a manufacturer
incurs to ensure it produces a quality product.
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Quality costs fall into four categories, which are:
• Appraisal costs.
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QUALITY COST
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TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT
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CHARACTERISTICS OF TQM
• Committed management.
• Adopting and communicating about total quality management.
• Closer customer relations.
• Closer provider relations.
• Benchmarking.
• Increased training.
• Open organization
• Employee empowerment.
• Flexible production.
• Process improvements.
• Process measuring
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CONCEPT 0F TQM
• Improve continuously.
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BENEFITS OF TQM
• Improved quality.
• Employee participation.
• Team work.
• Working relationships.
• Customer satisfaction.
• Employee satisfaction.
• Productivity.
• Communication.
• Profitability.
• Market share.
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THREE ASPECTS OF TQM
• COUNTING-Tools, Techniques and training in their use for
analyzing, understanding, and solving quality problems.
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TRADITIONAL APPROACH
Traditional Approach
AND TQM
Basis for differentiation TQM
Definition Product oriented Customer oriented
Priorities Second to service and cost First among equals of service and
cost
Decisions Short term Long term
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PRINCIPLES OF TQM
• Improve continuously.
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PRINCIPLES OF SERVICE QUALITY
• Customer focus
• Leadership
• Involement of people
• Process approach
• System approach to management
• Approach to decision making
• Mutual beneficial suppliar relationship
• Continual improvement
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OBJECTIVES OF SERVICE QUALITY
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DIMENSIONS OF SERVICE QUALITY
• Reliability
• Perform promised service dependably and accurately. Examples: delivered home
heating oil on schedule, correct diagnosis and treatment of a medical problem.
• Responsiveness
• Willingness to help customers promptly. Example: avoid keeping customers
waiting for no apparent reason.
• Assurance
• Knowledge and courtesy of employees. Ability to convey trust and confidence.
Example: being polite and showing respect for customer.
• Empathy
• Providing caring, individualized attention to customers. Example: being a good
listener.
• Tangibles
• Physical facilities and facilitating goods. Example: cleanliness.
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PERCIVED SERVICE QUALITY
Word of Personal Past
mouth needs experience
Expected
Service Quality Service Quality Assessment
service
Dimensions 1. Expectations exceeded
Reliability ES<PS (Quality surprise)
Responsiveness 2. Expectations met
Assurance Perceived ES~PS (Satisfactory quality)
Empathy service 3. Expectations not met
Tangibles ES>PS (Unacceptable quality)
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SERVICE QUALITY GAP MODEL
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PARETO PRINCIPLE
NAMED AFTER VIFREDO PARETO AN ITALIAN
ECONOMIST
• • He then noticed that 20% of the pea pods in his garden accounted
for 80% of his pea crop each year.
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PARETO PRINCIPLE
• A small number of causes is responsible for a large percentage of the
effect -usually a 20-percent to 80-percent ratio.
• You can apply this ratio to almost anything, from the science of
management to the physical world
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PARETO PRINCIPLE
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EXAMPLES OF PARETO PRINCIPLE
• 20% of the input creates 80% of the result.
• 20% of the bugs cause 80% of the crashes.
• 80% of customer complaints arise from 20% of your products or services.
• 80% of the work is usually done by 20% of the people.
• 80% of the quality can be gotten in 20% of the time perfection takes 5 times
longer.
• 80% of your staff headaches come from 20% of our employees
• 80% of our personal telephone calls are to 20% of the people in our address
book.
• In most parties 80% of the beer will be consumed by 20% of people.
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WHAT IS PARETO CHART?
• A Pareto Chart is a series of bars whose heights reflect the frequency or
impact of problems.
• The bars are arranged in descending order of height from left to right.
• This means the categories represented by the tall bars on the left are
relatively more significant then those on the right.
• This bar chart is used to separate the “vital few” from the “trivial many”.
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WHY PARETO CHART IS USED?
• A Pareto Chart breaks a big problem down into smaller pieces,
identifies the most significant factors, shows where to focus efforts,
and allows better use of limited resources.
• You can separate the few major problems from the many possible
problems so you can focus your improvement efforts, arrange data
according to priority.
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MANAGEMENT
TOOLS….
PRESENTED BY:
What this topic all about ?
• Conclusion
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QUALITY MANAGEMENT..
• Quality management is the act of overseeing different activities and tasks within an organization to
ensure that products and services offered, as well as the means used to achieve them, are
consistent.
• It helps to achieve and maintain a desired level of quality within the organization.
• The aim of quality management is to ensure that all the organization’s stakeholders work together
to improve the company’s processes, products, services, and culture to achieve the long-term
success that stems from customer satisfaction.
• It helps an organization achieve greater consistency in tasks and activities that are involved in the
production of products and services.
• It increases efficiency in processes, reduces wastage, and improves the use of time and other
resources.
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QUALITY MANAGEMENT(contd.)
• It helps improve customer satisfaction.
• It enables businesses to market their business effectively and exploit new markets.
• It makes it easier for businesses to integrate new employees, and thus helps businesses
manage growth more seamlessly.
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QUALITY MANAGEMENT
TOOLS..
FLOW CHART
PARETO CHART CONTROL CHART
SCATTERED
CAUSE EFFECT DIAGRAM
HISTOGRAM
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FLOWCHART…
• We all are familiar with “Flowchart” since our school or college days. A flowchart is a diagram
which represents a workflow process, algorithm, or a step by step process connected by arrows in
different directions.
• These flowcharts are used for the representation of organizational structures, Login System,
document work process flow, billing transaction flow etc.
• It is the step of the process that will provide information or picture of what the process looks like
and throw some light on the quality issues. Flowchart helps in identifying where exactly the
quality issue is in the process.
• Here, every step is an action and result of it produces an output which is again used as an input to
the next step.
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FLOWCHART(contd.)
• Given below is an Example of sample flowchart of the kitchen department or kitchen hierachy
of a five star hotel.
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HISTOGRAM…
• A common graphical tool used to portray and visualize the distribution of a set of data is the
histogram. It shows the form of the distribution by establishing the frequency of the data within
a certain range.
• The histogram is constructed by taking the difference between the minimum and maximum
observations and dividing it into evenly spaced intervals.
• Then, the number of observations in each interval is counted and the frequency is plotted as the
height of a bar on the graph.
• The histogram is, in essence, a simplified view of the distribution that generated the plotted data.
How to Use:
• Step 1. Collect variable data (length, distance, weight, time, etc).
• Step 2. Generate the graph as a histogram, either with an application or manually.
• Step 3. Draw your conclusions.
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HISTOGRAm(Contd.)
Parts of a Histogram:
• The title: The title describes the information included in the histogram.
• X-axis: The X-axis are intervals that show the scale of values which the measurements fall under.
• Y-axis: The Y-axis shows the number of times that the values occurred within the intervals set by
the X-axis.
• The bars: The height of the bar shows the number of times that the values occurred within the
interval, while the width of the bar shows the interval that is covered. For a histogram with equal
bins, the width should be the same across all bars.
Example of a Histogram
• Jeff is the branch manager at a local bank. Recently, Jeff’s been receiving customer feedback
saying that the wait times for a client to be served by a customer service representative are too
long. Jeff decides to observe and write down the time spent by each customer on waiting. Here
are his findings from observing and writing down the wait times spent by 20 customers:
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HISTOGRAm(contd.)
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CAUSE & EFFECT CHART…
• Cause-Effect is also known as Fish-bone diagram as the shape is somewhat similar to the
side view of a fish skeleton. During problem-solving, everyone in the team has a different
opinion about the root cause of the issue or problem.
• Fish-bone diagram captures all causes, ideas and uses brainstorming method to identify the
strongest root cause.
• Cause-Effect diagram records causes of specific problems or issues related to the processor
system. You will get many different causes for a specific problem.
• To start with the fishbone, you need to state your problem as a question, that too in terms of
“why”. This will help in brainstorming as each question should have an answer. In the end,
the entire team should agree on the problem statement and then place this question at the
“head” of the fish-bone.
• The rest of the fishbone then consists of one line that is drawn horizontally across the page
attaching the problem statement at the head and a vertical line drawn as branches or bone.
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• For example, a hotel manager wants to investigate why guest rooms are not ready for check-in
at 4:00 PM. The manager brainstorms reasons with the improvement team and creates a cause-
and-effect diagram to categorize the reasons. The team can then prioritize problem areas and
develop improvement ideas.
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SCATTER DIAGRAM..
• Scatter diagrams are graphs that show the relationship between variables. Variables often
represent possible causes and effect.
• As an example, a scatter diagram might show the relationship between how satisfied volunteers
are that attend orientation training.
• The diagram shows the relationship between volunteer satisfaction scores and volunteer
orientation training.
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CHECK LIST…
• A check sheet is a basic quality tool that is used to collect data. A check sheet might be used to
track the number of times a certain incident happens.
• The Check sheet is used to collect data and information in an easy format.
• It increases accuracy in the data collection process with easy method and format. It
significantly reduces efforts for data collection as well. This data collection is based on actual
facts and figures rather than any imaginary numbers and item.
• The check sheet is updated by recording “marks” or “checks” on it. In the below Example, the
Human Resource Department tracks the number of questions raised on each day under
different categories.
• Thus the below table shows the total number of questions raised in the Human Department by
different category like Health Insurance, Sick Time, Paid Time off etc. It also provides
information on the total number of questions raised on each day in a week.
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CHECK LIST…(CONT.)
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PARETO’S CHART:
• A Pareto chart is a bar graph of data showing the largest number of frequencies to the smallest.
• Pareto analysis is based around the 80/20 rule, whereby often the vital few things cause the
biggest effect.
• That’s 80% of sales come from 20% customers…
• 80% of defects come from 20% root causes…
• It might not be exactly 80/20, but you’ll find that the vital few things cause the major effect.
• It’s simple in its approach.
• And it’s depicted in the form of a bar chart, whereby frequency or impact is show in descending
order, against specific cause codes, or reasons of failure / problems.
• Using this method, you can quickly, see the biggest impact from the vital few causes.
• And once you have this information, you can get to work improving the vital few root causes.
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• In this example, we are looking at the number of product defects in each of the listed categories.
• When you look at the number of defects from the largest to the smallest occurrences, it is easy to see
how to prioritize improvements efforts.
• The most significant problems stand out and can be targeted first.
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CONTROL CHART:
• Control charts or run charts are used to plot data points over time and give a picture of the
movement of that data.
• These charts demonstrate when data is consistent or when there are high or low outliers in the
occurrences of data.
• It focuses on monitoring performance over time by looking at the variation in data points. And
it distinguishes between common cause and special cause variations. The Dow Jones Industrial
Average is a good example of a control chart.
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CONTROL CHART(CONTD.)
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IMPORTANCE OF QUALITY
MANAGEMENT TOOLS..
HIGHER
PRODUCTIVITY BEAT THE
LEVELS COMPETITION IN
CUSTOMER
THE MARKET
SATISFACTION
ATTRACTS
LOYAL SET OF CAUSE AND
CUSTOMERS EFFECT
RELATIONSHIP
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QUALITY LEADERSHIP
QUALITY
• The quality is a distinctive attribute or
characteristic possessed by someone
or something.
• Quality is doing the right things right
and is uniquely defined by each
individual. — A product or process that
is Reliable, and that performs its
intended function is said to be
a quality product.
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LEADERSHIP
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QUALITY LEADERSHIP
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• Quality leadership is where quality principles become “a
basis for guiding, empowering and supporting the
constant pursuit of excellence by the employees
throughout the organization.”
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CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD LEADER
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1. Honesty and Integrity
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2. Confidence
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3. Inspire Others
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4. Commitment and Passion
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5. Good Communicator
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6. Decision-Making Capabilities
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MOTIVATION
• Motivation is an important
factor which encourages
persons to give their best
performance and help in
reaching enterprise goals.
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NATURE OF MOTIVATION
• 1. Motivation is an inner feeling which energizes a person to work more.
• 2. The emotions or desires of a person prompt him for doing a particular work.
• 3. There are unsatisfied needs of a person which disturb his equilibrium.
• 4. A person moves to fulfill his unsatisfied needs by conditioning his energies.
• 5. There are dormant energies in a person which are activated by channelizing
them into actions.
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Strategies for achieving a motivated workforce:
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• Continued….
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TEAM
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Recognition and Rewards
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• Continued….
• When employees and their work are valued, their satisfaction and
productivity rises, and they are motivated to maintain or improve their good
work.
• Praise and recognition are essential to an outstanding workplace.
• People want to be respected and valued by others for their contribution.
• Everyone feels the need to be recognized as an individual or member of a
group and to feel a sense of achievement for work well done or even for a
valiant effort.
• Everyone wants a ‘pat on the back’ to make them feel good.
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GAIN SHARING
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Performance Appraisal
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Employee Involvement
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Benefits of Employee Involvement
• Improved Morale
• Increased Productivity
• Innovation
• Motivated workforce
• Customer satisfaction
• Improves communication
• Stress reduction
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CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
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MEANIN
G
• It is a measure of how products and services supplied by a
company meet or surpass the customer’s expectations.
• Customer expectation is the needs, wants, and
preconceived ideas of a customer about a product or a
service.
• If customer expectations are met then the customer is
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WHO ARE
CUSTOMERS
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• Performance needs (satisfiers)
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• Excitement Needs (delighters)
• This is the real test and bottom line- when the customer repeatedly
comes back to you for repeat orders and to purchase new products
manufactured by you. (In spite of stiff competition and multiple
Suppliers/Sources! )
• Surveys
• Customer feedback
• Comparison with
alternatives
• Employee feedback
• Internet/blogs
• Toll free numbers
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Quality and customer
expectations
• Quality is defined as excellence in the product or service
that fulfil or exceeds the expectations of the customer.
• There are 9 dimensions of quality that may be found in
products that produce customer satisfaction.
• Though quality is an abstract perception, it has a
quantitative measure Q= (P / E ) , where Q=quality,
• P= performance(as measured by the
manufacturer.), and E = expectations( of the
customer).
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9 Dimensions Of
Quality
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SERVICE QUALITY
MANAGEMENT
❖ The process of managing the quality of services delivered to a customer according to his
expectations is called Service Quality Management.
❖ It basically assesses how well a service has been given, so as to improve its quality in
the future, identify problems and correct them to increase customer satisfaction.
•Responsiveness – How quickly the services are rendered to the customer and the promptness of service
delivery. With respect to software services, it would be the ability to respond to customer problems or give
solutions.
•Assurance – This is a measure of the ability to convey trust to the customers and how well they extend the
courtesy. Software assurance involves the amount of confidence the customer has in handling the software
application or navigating a site, the belief he has on the information provided and its clarity, reputation etc.
•Empathy – Giving personalized attention, understanding the requirements and caring for the customers. The
software service would include customized applications, one-to-one customer attention, security privacy and
understanding customer preferences.
•Tangibles – The physical attributes like appearance, equipment, facilities etc. When we speak of software
services, the tangibles would be aesthetics of the software application or website, navigation features,
accessibility, flexibility etc.
Responsiveness
Assurance
Do it now.
Know what your doing.
Empathy
Care about them. Tangibles
Reliability Look sharp.
Just do it.
QUALITY SERVICE DELIVERY GAPS :
• Gap 1: between consumer expectation and management perception - When the management does
not correctly perceive what the customers want.
• Gap 2: between management perception and service quality specification - Not setting appropriate
performance standard. example would be when hospital administrators instruct nurses to respond to a
request ‘fast’, but may not specify ‘how fast’.
• Gap 3: between service quality specification and service delivery - Poorly trained personnel,
incapable or unwilling to meet the set service standard.
• Gap 4: between service delivery and external communication - Statements made by company
representatives and advertisements.
• Gap 5: between expected service and experienced service - Consumer misinterprets the service
quality.
Process of service quality management:
Identifying
Managing customer Educating customer
primary quality Managing evidence
expectations about the service
determinants
• Look at incorporating the clients’ requirements into the recruitment and selection process.
• Set clear standards of performance detailing the minimum operating criteria and revisit them often.
• Having a clear concept of the position that you want to occupy in the market place.
• Helps an organization to design and create a product which the customer actually wants and desires.
1. Quality is an investment.
❑ Fishbone diagram –
❑ Pareto Chart –
Separating the trivial from the important. Often, a majority of problems is caused by a minority of
causes (i.e. the 80/20 rule).
❑ Blueprinting-
Visualization of service delivery, identifying points where failures are most likely to occur
TOOLS TO ANALYZE AND ADDRESS SERVICE QUALITY PROBLEMS :
❑ ISO 9000
Comprises requirements, definitions, guidelines, and related standards to provide an independent
assessment and certification of a firm’s quality management system
❑ Six Sigma
❑ There are service quality gaps and solutions presented in the Gaps Model
• Fishbone diagram
• Pareto Chart
• Blueprinting
• Total Quality Management (TQM)
• ISO 9000
• Malcolm Baldrige Model Applied to Services
• Six Sigma
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
INTRODUCTION OF ISO
An ISO Management Standard is a set of internationally recognised
guidelines, covering key areas of running and managing a business such as:
• ISO certification is proof from a third party that you comply with an ISO
management standard.
• It can show your key stakeholders that you have a well-run business that
has structure, is stable and ready for growth – this can help with applying
for finance from your bank, impressing potential investors, or eventually
selling.
• To achieve ISO Certification, you have to prove that your business meets
the requirements of the standard.
• Although this sounds intimidating, a lot of the requirements are general
good business practice and we will help you every step of the way.
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• Once certified, we will help you to continually retain your certification.
• You will be able to contact us for advice whenever you need it and our fees
include on-going consultancy to help keep your systems on track for a
painless re-certification, year after year.
If you answer yes to all or some of the following questions, you should
consider having your business certified:
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• Could improving customer satisfaction improve your turnover?
• Do you find yourself (or your team) spending time fixing things rather than
planning for a stronger future?
• Do different people do things in their own way?
• Does it take a while for new starters to become productive?
• Would your business benefit from improved staff engagement and
heightened motivation?
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Benefits of ISO
• An ISO management standard is a way of running your operations so they
are consistent and effective. It is viewed as business best practice.
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(REQIREMENTS)
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What are the ISO 9001 Requirements?
REQUIREMENTS
• As with any standardization or regulatory organization that awards
certifications, you can expect that there are a lot of requirements to comply
with — especially since this is an international standard.
• All the ISO 9001 requirements are set out by ISO in ten clauses.
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ISO 9001 Mandatory Requirements — Documents and Records
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• Records about customer property
• Production/service provision change control records
• Record of conformity of product/service with acceptance criteria
• Record of nonconforming outputs
• Monitoring measurement results
• Internal audit program
• Results of internal audits
• Results of the management review
• Results of corrective actions
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Non-Mandatory Requirements — But Often Included
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• Procedure for production and service provision
• Warehousing procedure
• Procedure for management of nonconformities and
corrective actions
• Procedure for monitoring customer satisfaction
• Procedure for internal audit
• Procedure for management review
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IMPLEMENTATION OF ISO
• Familiarize Yourself with ISO 9001
• Plan Everything out for Implementation
• Identify Responsibilities, Policies, and Objectives
• Develop Your Documentation
• Launch Your Quality Management System
• Review Your Performance
• Assess and Register for Certification
• Continual Improvement
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DOCUMENTATION OF ISO
• QMS documentation hierarchy
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ISO 22000 :
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ISO 22000
• ISO 22000 is a Food Safety Management System that can be applied to any
organization in the food chain, farm to fork. Becoming certified to ISO
22000 allows a company to show their customers that they have a food
safety management system in place.
• This is becoming more and more important as customers demand safe food
and food processors require that ingredients obtained from their suppliers to
be safe.
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What does ISO 22000 require?
• ISO 22000 requires that you build a Food Safety Management System. This
means that you will have a documented system in place and fully
implemented throughout your facility that includes:
• Effective Prerequisite Programs in place to ensure a clean sanitary
environment
• A Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Plan developed to identify, prevent
and eliminate food safety hazards,
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• The ISO 22000 standard contains the specific requirements to be addressed
by the Food Safety Management System. The standard requires food safety
management system processes including:
• Having an overall Food Safety Policy for your organization, developed by
top management.
• Setting objectives that will drive your companies efforts to comply with
this policy.
• Planning and designing a management system and documenting the system.
• Maintaining records of the performance of the system.
• Establishing a group of qualified individuals to make up a Food Safety
Team.
• Defining communication procedures to ensure effective communication
with important contacts outside the company (regulatory, customers,
suppliers and others) and for effective internal communication.
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• Having an emergency plan.
• Holding management review meetings to evaluate the performance of the
FSMS.
• Providing adequate resources for the effective operation of the FSMS
including appropriately trained and qualified personnel, sufficient
infrastructure and appropriate work environment to ensure food safety.
• Implementing Prerequisite Programs.
• Following HACCP principles.
• Establishing a traceability system for identification of product.
• Establishing a corrective action system and control of nonconforming
product.
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• Maintaining a documented procedure for handling
withdrawal of product.
• Controlling monitoring and measuring devices.
• Establishing and maintaining and
internal audit program.
• Continually updating and improving the FSMS.
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HACCP DEFINITION
• HACCP-Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points
• “Is a systematic approach to the identification and assessment of risk and severity, and
control of biological, chemical and physical hazards associated with a particular food,
production process or practice”
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HISTORY OF HACCP
Year 1959 Pillsbury developed HACCP system to meet requirements of
“NASA” space program. Modes of failures concepts of US army Natick
Lab. was the basis
Year 1969- Codex Alimantarius - Joint WHO/FAO body published
guidelines for HACCP
Year 1985- Sub committee of National advisory Committee(NAS) developed
report based on HACCP-1985
Year 1989- National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria of
Foods (NACMCF) established guidelines for HACCP
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7 PRINCIPLES OF HACCP
Hazard Identification/Analysis:
The process of collecting and interpreting information on hazards and conditions leading to their presence to
decide which are significant for food safety
RISK ASSESSMENT
Control Point; A step where control can be applied to prevent, eliminate or reduce a food safety
hazard to acceptable levels.
Control Measure; Any activity that can be used to prevent , eliminate or reduce to an acceptable level a food safety hazard
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Academic Quality
Improvement Project (AQIP)
A forum for higher education institutions to review
one another’s action projects.
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Acceptance number
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Acceptance quality
limit (AQL)
In a continuing series of lots, a
quality level that, for the purpose of
sampling inspection, is the limit of a
satisfactory process average.
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Acceptance sampling
Inspection of a sample from a lot to decide whether to accept
that lot. There are two types: attributes sampling and variables
sampling. In attributes sampling, the presence or absence of a
characteristic is noted in each of the units inspected. In variables
sampling, the numerical magnitude of a characteristic is
measured and recorded for each inspected unit; this involves
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Acceptance sampling plan
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Accuracy
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Activity-based costing
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Advanced Product Quality
Planning (APQP)
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Cost of poor quality (COPQ)
The costs associated with providing poor quality products or services. There
are four categories: internal failure costs (costs associated with defects
found before the customer receives the product or service), external failure
costs (costs associated with defects found after the customer receives the
product or service), appraisal costs (costs incurred to determine the degree
of conformance to quality requirements) and prevention costs (costs
incurred to keep failure and appraisal costs to a minimum).
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Cost of quality (COQ)
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Error proofing
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Green Belt (GB)
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Hazard analysis and critical
control point (HACCP)
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Heijunka
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Instant pudding
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Jidohka
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Key process
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Lead time
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One-piece flow
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Prevention cost
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Process owner
The person who has responsibility and authority for ensuring
that a process meets specified requirements and achieves
objectives.
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Quality management system (QMS)
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