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What does this mean? And who makes this claim?
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And while we're at it, is "total quality management" a generic term like "]", or is it "Total Quality Management" (proper noun)? If it's the latter, then who developed it? Who espouses / promotes it? How much does it cost?
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How is TQM different from "]"?
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Most of all, what evidence is there that this is not just another industry ]? We're trying to run an encyclopedia here, and people who want to know what TQM is, apart from the hype, will come '''here''' to find out. ] 13:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
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M is a generic term, but it is usually capitalized. I'm not sure why, other than just tradition. Note that ] is usually capitalized in spite of also being a generic term. TQM is usually credited with being started by ], although h
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I don't think that he came up with the name "Total Quality Management", but he did use it in the later part of his career (after he came to the U.S.). I think that it has enough credibility to be more than just a buzzword. It's been around in Japan since the 1950s, and it's been in use in the U.S. since the 1980s. It's hard to say what comphone this
panies have used it since it is a philosophy of operations rather than
a specific product. From my understanding, it is quite common in Japan. I know that some well-known U.S. companies that have been credited
as use TQM principles have been ] and ]. --[
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==Origin of TQM name==
Retired United States Air Force (Tactical Air Command) General Bill Creech claim in his book that he coined the term "Total Quality Management," in
early 1980's. (page 6 of ''The Five Pillars of TQM'', Bill Creech, Trumen Talley Books
, New York 1995, ISBN 0-452-27102-9 ). At the time Japanese automobile manufactures were grabbing a greater share of the American market with cars of higher quality then American cars. Creech claim he created TQM without knowing of Deming's or Juran's works.
He devised the term from a ''total'' approach to put ''quality'' in every aspect of ''management''.
The name then spread throughout the United States Department of Defense.

TQM was popular from about 1985 to 1995. It has since been replaced by other methods (such as ]). TQM was a group of techniques used to improve an organization. It typically included:

* Company wide quality control ("TQM is not limited in its application"

* Continuous quality improvement
* Total customer satisfaction or service
* Total employee involvement
* Integrated process management


(See ''The Quality Book'', by Greg Hutchins, published by QPE, Portland OR. 199

Although based on sound principles TQM ultimately faded away. It began to be thought of as a fad or hype that did not produce results. The reason for TQM's failure are discussed in Hutchins' book and in Juan's book, ''Juran on Quality by Design'', J.M. Juran, The Free Press, 1992, ISBN 0-02-916683
7. Reason include the long time needed to see result (it can take up to six years, not a quick fx), poor definition the
goals, lack of top management buy-in, vague plans, fear (will I engineer myself out of a job?), confusion (TQM uses a mixture of techniques and principle that managers may not understand), and poor definition of responsibilities. ] 00:44, 11 January 2006

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