For undergraduate and graduate courses in Total Quality Management, Quality Assurance, and Total Quality offered by technical, engineering, business, education, and health care departments.
Presenting sufficient theory to ensure a sound understanding of basic concepts, this progressive text provides a fundamental, yet comprehensive exploration of total quality management (TQM) in an all-encompassing, single-volume review that covers not only the principles and practices, but also the tools and techniques.
This book provides a fundamental, yet comprehensive coverage of Total Quality Management. It is divided into two parts: Part I covers principles and practices, and Part II covers tools and techniques.
Some of the features of this text include: - Practical state-of-the-art approach
- Figures and tables that help clarify and reinforce the concepts presented
- Where appropriate, techniques are reduced to simple mathematics or developed in the form of charts and tables
- Sufficient theory is presented to ensure a complete understanding of the concepts
NEW to this edition: - Reorganization of Part II for a more logical chapter sequence
- Brief description of a TQM exemplary organization added at the end of each chapter
- Revised chapter to reflect the ISO 9000: 2000 revision
- Increased number of examples in most chapters
- New chapter entitled "Information Technology"