System Improvements Through TQM, TPM, JIT and KANBAN

System Improvements Through TQM, TPM, JIT and KANBAN

ABSTRACT

Quality is a customer issue. Success of any organization depends on its product quality. It arises because customers require products, which not only meet their performance requirements but also are satisfactory in terms of safety, working life and pride of ownership. So every organization is looking for a new technique which when applied will give better quality product without increasing cost of it.

Total Quality Management and Total Productive Maintenance are the latest and powerful techniques, which can be applied to improve quality. These techniques have potential to maximize an  operational efficiency and to provide strategic competitive edge to business and strive to make the best use of all available resources and opportunities.
 In a manufacturing organization, the achievement of quality standards is not restricted to the production department. It extends to all parts of business from conceptual design to marketing, from order processing and distribution.
Thus to include every employee, concept of TPM evolved. Total Productive Maintenance is a means of creating a safe and participative work environment in which all employees target the elimination of losses in order to continuously enhance the capacity, flexibility and capability of processes leading to higher employee morale and greater organizational profitability.
Thus these techniques aim at improving quality through overall improvement of  the system and waste elimination or reduction in the system. Just In Time (JIT) is management that focuses organization on continuously identifying and removing sources of waste so that processes are continuously improved.