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Hoshin Kanri
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Hoshin Kanri

by Yoji Akao
December 2020
Intermediate to advanced
244 pages
4h 40m
English
Productivity Press
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CHAPTER 1

TQM and Hoshin Kanri

Japanese quality control in its present form is based on the statistical quality control (SQC) that was brought over from the United States after World War II. Later in Japan we developed total quality control (TQC), which in other countries has come to be known as CWQC (companywide quality control) or TQM (total quality management).

The transition from SQC to TQC occurred during the years 1961 to 1965 in companies whose achievements in quality earned them the Deming Prize. These companies were Nissan Automotive (1960), Teijin and Nippon Denso (1961), Sumitomo-Denko (1962), Nippon-Kayaku (1963), Komatsu (1964), and Toyota Jiko (1965). During this period the concepts of control items and hoshin kanri, or policy ...

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