Investigations on the web based Models of five vital TQM strategies

Abstract

During the past few decades manufacturing engineers have been newlineexperiencing the emergence of globally competitive and dynamic business newlineenvironment As a result they have been searching for new principles and newlineapproaches to stabilize the position of their companies in the global market newlineParticularly from early 1980s manufacturing engineers acknowledged and newlineadopted the contributions of quality management experts Today their newlineconcepts and ideas are collectively addressed under the title Total Quality newlineManagement TQM Since then the field of TQM has been witnessing the newlinedevelopments of numerous tools and techniques These tools and techniques newlinehave been developed with the objectives of achieving continuous quality newlineimprovement and customer satisfaction The TQM literature suggests various newlinestrategies and different methods to achieve these objectives newlineAfter achieving varying degrees of continuous quality improvement newlineand customer satisfaction the researchers and practitioners turned their newlineconcentration towards developing TQM strategies Despite their power in newlineaccelerating the TQM journey practical implementation of TQM strategies newlinedemands the building of teams efficient information management and newlineknowledge from inside and outside the organization Particularly when newlinedifferent functions and units of an organization are geographically separated newlinewidely the formation of teams with members from these units and sharing of newlinedata information and knowledge among them become a near impossible task newline newline