Implementing a Company Wide Quality Strategy

880328

02/01/1988

Authors Abstract
Content
Moving a company forward to meet the challenges of a changing and dynamic market requires a considerable amount of self-evaluation if long term success is to be guaranteed. There is no simple solution. Much to the disappointment of some purists, the true challenge for the U.S. auto industry is in balancing the long term with the all important short term measures of performance.
Rockwell Automotive has embarked upon this process of change, adopting a company wide strategy for Total Quality Control. The foundation for this strategy places as much emphasis on startegic planning and organizational climate as it does on such currently poptdar techniques as QFD, Taguchi Methods, SPC and the Japanese.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/880328
Pages
12
Citation
Adams, R., and Gavoor, M., "Implementing a Company Wide Quality Strategy," SAE Technical Paper 880328, 1988, https://doi.org/10.4271/880328.
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Published
Feb 1, 1988
Product Code
880328
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English