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Appendix 5.2 Science SQC, A New Quality
Control Principle
It is important for all divisions to turn implicit knowledge of their business pro-
cesses into explicit knowledge through integrated and collaborative activities by
sharing objective awareness. To accomplish this, a new systematic and organized
SQC propulsion cycle in the Toyota way, so-called Science SQC, proposed by the
author (Amasaka, 1997a) was developed under a new concept using a new meth-
odology that applied the four core principles, as shown in Figure 5.4, that enabled
jobs to be scientically performed. is conceptual diagram shows the nucleus of
Toyota’s and its groups’ TQM activities based on a new quality principle that ...