TQM organizational development for a global manufacturer

Author

Suzuki, Kiyoshi ; Tashiro, Hisato ; Fujii, Nobuzumi ; Ushikubo, Masayoshi ; Sakata, Ichiro

Author_Institution

Sanden Corp., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

6-9 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

1461

Lastpage

1465

Abstract

The essence of rapid growth of the global manufacturer is a series of actions to accumulate daily effort of creative improvement, while improving the quality of each management and each result, in order to build the company which prospers in the 21st century. In this paper, we introduce a TQM organizational development plan of a global manufacturing company. One of the authors won the Deming Prize for Individuals in 2007 for his efforts in TQM globalization and has led the global organization to win quality awards, including the Award for World-Class Total Productive Maintenance Achievement, Japan Quality Medal, and several Deming Application Prizes.

Keywords

globalisation; manufacturing systems; organisational aspects; total quality management; TQM organizational development; global manufacturing company; total quality management; Communities; Companies; Lead; Technological innovation; Total quality management; Total Quality Management (TQM); continuous improvement; knowledge management; organizational development; transformational leadership;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

2157-3611

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0740-7

Electronic_ISBN

2157-3611

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEM.2011.6118159

Filename

6118159