Using rapid TQM instead of TQM

In manufacturing TQM is a process that your manufacturing plant can use to improve their business processes, which include their manufacturing processes. TQM can also be used to improve the quality of the products that you are manufacturing. The goals of TQM are realized through the continuous involvement of your employees because without their involvement TQM would not be very effective. The biggest problem with TQM, like other manufacturing processes, is how long it takes to begin seeing results in your company after you have implemented it.

The reason that it takes so long to begin seeing results with TQM is how much time you have to dedicate to maintaining TQM, but also how long it takes TQM to realize its full potential.

To get past the time requirements of TQM there is a process called rapid TQM that your manufacturing business can use. Rapid TQM is a tweaked version of TQM, with rapid TQM, you will be able to implement TQM in weeks, and you will be able to see visible results within months. The biggest difference between TQM and rapid TQM is that your company is going to need to become more efficient at problem solving because you will need to solve the right problem based on the data that you have collected rather than solving the wrong problem.

Your company is going to need to become efficient at recognizing what the right problems are compared to what the wrong problems are. To help determine the right problems that need to be solved your best bet is to talk to employees about what they think is going on because they are the ones with firsthand experience with the processes. You can also use rapid data collection, but your employees are the best source of information.

With rapid TQM, you are going to be rapidly collecting the data, so the techniques that you use to collect data are going to be different from with TQM. With rapid TQM, you will only be collecting the data that you need, which can be done by having a clear idea of what you will need. The hardest part about collecting the data quickly is to weed out the information that you do not need.

To ensure that you only gather the data that you need you will want to develop some kind of scoring system for the data that you are collecting. The scoring system is going to need to rate the data based on its relevancy to the problem at hand. The scoring system should also be used to determine how accurate the information is, the lower the score the less accurate the information contained in the data is.

Another difference between TQM and rapid TQM is meetings that you are going to be holding. With TQM, your company has to hold a ton of meetings, which is one of the biggest reasons that the TQM process is so slow, the meetings slow down the process. With rapid TQM, you will be holding fewer meetings, which cuts down the time it takes for your company to achieve results. The best way to get the meetings to go smoothly in rapid TQM is to hire an outside party to facility the meeting. By hiring an outside party, all they will need to gather the required information before the meeting starts so that the meeting can be as short as possible. The outside party is also a benefit because they are neutral to the politics that are involved with the business, so they can stay neutral no matter what is said or suggested during the meeting.

The best thing about rapid TQM is that you are going to be getting more for your effort. You will start seeing results sooner with rapid TQM, which results are the best rewards.