·  Quality & its importance

·  Customer concepts & customer needs

·  Quality loop

·  What is ISO? Types of standards

·  Other benefits of ISO

·  Steps to be followed for ISO at our end

·  What we can do for effective implementation of ISO?


Customer’s Needs

Definition of Customer

Customer is one who uses our product or services

Types of Customer

·  Internal Customer

Next User

· Intermediate Customer

Next dept/Other plant/sister concern

·  External Customer

End User

“To satisfy all these customers is our first & foremost objective”

What is Quality ?

·  Quality means, products or services made as per customers requirements

·  Customer’s satisfaction

Importance of Quality

·  Tough competition

·  Educated customer

Quality “Mantra”

·  Right specifications, Right Time, Right Price

·  Every Time, First Time

Traditional Method

Manufacturing Cost +

Profit = Selling Price

What customer expects is minimum Selling price, hence,

Desired Method

Selling Price ¯ = Manufacturing cost ¯

+ Profit ­

Base for the system is :

· Quality

· Customer

· Price

Quality Loop

EVOLUTION OF ISO 9000

FAMILY OF STANDARDS

Around Inspection

1920

Around Process Control

1945

Around Design Control

1960

1978 System control in all areas

U.K. of management which

directly or indirectly affect

quality

BS 5750 Part I, II, III

1987 ISO 9000 family of Standards

by International Organisation

for Standardization (ISO)

1988 Bureau of Indian Standards

IS 4000 Series

1994 First Revision

Inspection Vs Quality Control

Inspection / Quality Control
·  Starts after production / ·  Starts before & along with production
·  Segregates good and bad / ·  Ensures that bad things will not happen
·  Responsibility of the Inspection department / ·  Every bodies responsibility

ISO 9000 - series of standards

- ISO means…..

·  International Organization for standardization

·  This std was first released in March, 1987

·  ISO 9000 gives guidelines for selection of standards

·  Contractual standards are :

a)  ISO 9001-1994 : This is applicable to the organizations who design, develop, manufacture and supply and service product.

b) ISO 9002-1994 : This is applicable to the organizations who manufacture, supply and service product or services as per specifications given by the customer.

Features of ISO standards :

a)  These are standards of system of production

b)  These are generic standards

c)  These are practical standards

d)  These are not product standards

e)  These ensure consistency of product quality

f)  In this, mistakes are corrected in a systematic way so that chances of repetition are reduced.

LOSSES DUE TO BAD QUALITY

Tangible

(1) Increased rejection/rework

(2) Less production/productivity

(3) Higher customer complaints.

Intangible

(1) Loss of goodwill

(2) Conflicts between different depts.

(3) Loss of morale

Quality and Productivity

(1) Go hand in hand

(2) Quality is key to higher productivity

Types of Quality

·  Quality of Design

·  Quality of Product

·  Quality of Process

·  Quality of Systems

·  Quality of Service

Effects of Bad Quality

Tangible

a)  Higher Rejection

b)  Higher Rework

c)  Higher no. of customer complaints

d)  Less production/productivity

Intangible

a)  Credit down in the market

b)  Dept. to Dept. quarrels

c)  Less interest in work

Quality & Productivity

·  Supplementary to each other

·  Productivity increases with good Quality

NUMEROUS BENEFITS THAT WILL BE

DERIVED FROM WORKING TO

ISO 9001-2000 & TS 16949 QUALITY SYSTEMS

· Improved communication at all levels

· Decreasing trend in rejections, reworks, customer complaints

· Decreasing trend in inventories

- Raw materials

- W.I.P.

- Finished Goods

· Lead time reduction

· Customer relation improvement.

Trust/confidence enhancement.

· Sub-contractor relation improvement.

Long term association.

· Improved housekeeping

· Improved contacts with overseas buyers.

· People development

· Improved health of people.

Some More Benefits of ISO :

a)  It reduces rejection/rework

b)  It improves housekeeping

c)  It increases morale of the company

d)  It ensures Quality and after sales service to customers

e)  It improves team work

f) It saves cost by :

·  avoiding repetition of work

·  avoiding unnecessary records

·  monitoring processes

·  ….and many other ways

g)  Opportunities for export market

h)  Due to increased confidence of customers in you, you get more & more orders

i)  It improves discipline in the organization

j)  It increases credit in the market

Steps to be followed for ISO at our end :

1.  Study the standard and select the right standard

2.  Define Quality policy & Quality objectives. Display at various locations, explain meaning/intent to all

3.  Give training to each & every employee

4.  Write Work Procedures giving details of all activities

5.  Make changes in Work “practices”, wherever necessary

6.  Conduct “Internal Audit” to find out whether work is carried out as per written procedures

7.  Implement suggestions/observations of Internal Audit

8.  Conduct an Audit by External (Friends) Auditors

9.  Implement suggestions received from them

10.  For certification audit call world famous, well known auditors for audit

11.  Implement their suggestions

12.  Achieve certification

What we can do for effective implementation of ISO :

1.  We must know the complete details of the work we are doing

2.  We must know our Work Procedures in detail

3.  Our work place must be neat and clean

4.  Every thing must be attached with a label/tag/colour along with its status i.e. For Inspection/Accepted/ Rejected /For rework etc.

5.  All the inspection, measuring & test equipment must be calibrated

6.  We must maintain records, wherever written in the work procedures

7.  We must be ready for change