Total Quality Management - Kaizen Continuous Improvement (PowerPoint PPTX)

The recent global meltdown and recession has put great pressure on the organizations to produce the best quality products at the most affordable prices.

Organizations need to implement Total Quality Management in order to achieve organizational success as well as satisfying the customers so as to make more profit in the business arena.

This document on Quality covers an extensive compilation of topics to help you understand the Total Quality Management Principles. And, It can help develop a basic appreciation of quality concepts related to TQM's goal of continuous improvement.

Kaizen is a system of continuous improvement in quality, technology, processes, company culture, productivity, safety and leadership. The concept of Kaizen was born in Japan following World War II. The word Kaizen means "continuous improvement." It comes from the Japanese words 改(kai), which means "change" or "to correct" and 善 (zen) which means "good." Kaizen is a company-wide philosophy oriented toward continuous improvement. The literal definition extends to one's personal and social lives. In business, it applies to continuing improvement applicable to everyone, both managers and employees. The main idea is to maintain and improve work standards with the responsibility delegated to the worker.
The Kaizen strategy is one of the most important concepts in Japanese management and is credited with being the key to Japanese competitive success. One important aspect of Kaizen is its emphasis on process, complemented with management acknowledgement. This contrasts with results-oriented management, which is ingrained in western thinking. Kaizen, mostly, focuses on implementation.

This Unit of TQM contains:

• Introduction
• Kaizen and Gemba Kaizen
• The approaches to Continuous Improvement
• 5 S
• Company-Wide Quality Control (CWQC)
• Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and the House of Quality
• poka-yoke and Quality of Work Life (QWL)

This 71-Slide PowerPoint document explains in details Kaizen as a system that involves setting standards and then continually improving those standards

The document is easily customizable and contains many powerful figures, diagrams, ice-breakers, pictures, ... to get the holistic view of the concepts of the Quality Systems.