Wednesday, 24 January 2018

It was not all Smooth: How Japanese revolutionized TQM

Is your product approved on Quality? How it is benchmarked with the available products in the market? How do you perform Quality Assurance at the manufacturing process? These are common questions of today’s customers, thanks to the ever growing sources of information. Today, a customer is well apprised of purchasing criteria. The manufacturers are choosing quality over price any day to achieve long lasting return on investment.

 But, where does this Quality come from? What are the dimensions that keep some companies ahead in competition with Quality? Quality in last hundred years has undergone four stages of changes as under Inspection (Stage 1), Quality Control (Stage 2), Quality Assurance (Stage 3) and Total Quality Management (Stage 4). TQM is today’s manufacturing and is the way of managing for the future. It is far wider in its applications than merely assuring product or service quality. The origin of Total Quality Management (TQM) can be traced back to early 1920s when statistical theory was first applied to product quality control. This concept was further developed in Japan in the 1940s.

The focus widened from quality of products to customer, continuous improvement in operations, employee involvement, leadership, training and education. Though the term took birth in US, but Japanese revolutionized it.  Kaoru Ishikawa’s synthesis of the philosophy contributed to Japan’s ascendancy as a quality leader. As an after-effect of World War 2, the Americans ignored Dr. Edward Deming's quality management philosophy. In 1950, he went to the collapsed post-war Japan. He contacted the members of Japanese union of sciences to help them to rebuild Japanese industry. Prior to World war, the Japanese didn’t emphasize enough on the quality of products. He spoke to around 100 Engineers about his Quality Theory and convinced them by providing statistical information to process control to trace the errors back to the origin. Additional training was given to provide customer satisfaction. By 1970s, US industrial sector had been broadsided by Japanese high quality competition.

It was a hard-earned lesson for Japan and today, they are having the highest level of quality infrastructure, operations and manpower to produce quality products. Daifuku India, one of the largest global material handling solution providers for factory automation and distribution automation is practicing TQM in all over their production and customer satisfaction process. Though many Indian material handling companies are also providing automated storage and retrieval system, Daifuku is committed to provide service through consultation.  It offers the best selling range of ASRS that delivers the speed and efficiency which helps to reduce cycle time and energy. Being a Japanese company Daifuku has enhanced the awareness and quality consciousness among the employees and stakeholders to ensure customer satisfaction in the supply chain management and warehouse management.

Daifuku India is evolving as a value innovator to create and provide best solutions for Indian customers with a competitive edge. Daifuku provides optimal distribution solutions most suited to the age of e-commerce by constructing systems which can quickly supply products to consumers.


Daifuku India helps to achieve the optimized space utilization of the warehouses in various manufacturing facility. The Daifuku caters a comprehensive range of products such as AS/RS, Unit Load AS/RS, Mini Load AS/RS, Racking Systems to its customers that meet their versatile needs in logistics and manufacturing. It provides and offers material handling solutions with the aid of automated storage and retrieval systems with higher speed and more accuracy.

For more information, visit http://www.daifuku.com/in/solution/storage

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