Now that you have figured out the costs, you need to convey it to your team and let them know the costs incurred due to the poor quality delivered. Without awareness, they may not even know how their work would actually matter to the Customers. Now that awareness is created to all, it is important to understand all the corrective actions that need to be taken.
This will help in covering most of the problems in the program, without letting it escalate to the next level. Create a small group or committee in charge of the Zero Defects Program. It is not a mere motivational program, but a program that actually drives and implements the concept of zero defect in all product groups. This committee will be responsible to track issues not taken seriously in some meetings, and getting resolutions to them as well.
A Zero defects program is not just restricted to. Management needs to understand the program to communicate it rightly with every member of the organization. Hence, conduct supervisor training to all managers and keep them posted on the Quality Improvement Program and its initiatives.
Zero defects day need to be conducted on repetition like a year or a quarter to understand how far they have come since the last Zero Defects day, and how far they need to go to actually achieve the Zero Defects for all their products. During team meetings, it is advised that measurable goals are made with employees for a duration of a month or a quarter and discuss the previous goals that were set.
Quality Improvement is a continuously evolving process, and goals need to keep evolving with time. Talk to employees to understand what causes them problems that prevent them from building error-free processes.
Ask them if they think there is any possible solution that can be implemented. If they have figured it out take a note of it.
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A focus on zero defects may be stifling to a discussion of continuous improvement, and may lead to frustration and non- productivity.
To the general workforce, it may be a demoralizing concept. While everyone understands that continuous defect reduction is critical and necessary, most people understand, intuitively at least, that true zero is unachievable. Always striving for an unachievable goal may eventually de-motivate even the most optimistic of employees, particularly if they are frequently told that their defect level is unacceptable — because it is not zero.
Thus, while continuous improvement is applicable to everyone, zero defects can or should only be applied to the final supplier, rather than at interim points along the supply chain. Attempting to do the latter may eventually put one or more of the suppliers in jeopardy. Finally, it should be realized that the inspections and tests themselves however careful and precise they are have a finite probability of actually causing a defect.
Since the slogan zero defects implies immediate compliance to a defect-free standard, it may not leave time for the continuous improvement process to occur. In fact, it may even slow down the continuous improvement process because of the massive resources that inspected-in quality entails. Zero defects is a message that can carry with it confusion and misinterpretation, mixed with technical impracticality. It may be appropriate that the idea of zero defects be replaced with a policy of zero escapes, since the latter has limited interpretation.
As a company is doing all it can to improve the product and business using continuous improvement techniques, it also needs to consider what it can do to prevent a random, low-level defect from reaching the final customer.
In this regard, zero escapes of defects may be a complimentary activity to continuous improvement. A logical strategy is to employ continuous improvement methodologies everywhere in the business and manufacturing process to improve quality and yield, and reduce cycle time and costs. Then, at the point of shipping the final product to the final customer, employ a zero escapes methodology to help ensure that a randomly defective unit does not reach its final application.
Expecting individual suppliers in the supply chain to produce zero defects, in an effort to eliminate or minimize the final gate, is likely to be an impractical strategy. Quality professionals already have specific, descriptive methodologies that are aimed at achieving the same goals as zero defects. Here are but some of the methodologies already in use and being developed to minimize the defects in the end product:.
It is probably best to not encourage the use of somewhat ambiguous terminology in the place of well-defined and meaningful methodologies such as these. The concept of continuous improvement is intuitive.
It makes sense to always strive for a better process or product, to reduce costs, satisfy customers and gain market share.
Absolute perfection can never be achieved, but an organization can move closer and closer with good statistical and engineering practices. This articles seems to totally miss the point of the zero defects concept. Phil Crosby was the proponent and repeatedly had to fight with people who failed to understand the concept.
The concept is simple and has nothing to do with statistics and far less to do with appraisal and testing. A defect may be lot worse than a mistake. A defective tyre may kill you while a tyre with a spelling mistake will not.
Both are nonconformities but a nonconformity must have the potential to adversely affect the performance of the product to be considered a defect. Mind you, this did lead to food specs openly allowing small amounts of rat feces in food! The author started out in the first sentence of this article by confusing Six Sigma the process improvement methodology with sigma level of quality a metric that defines a sigma level of six as 3. The mean shift itself is controversial. Without the mean shift, the DPMO number is.
The author went on to make the assumption that the only way to achieve zero defects is to perform more inspection. This is a flawed assumption. Eliminate the need for massive inspection by building quality into the product in the first place.
I agree with the author that not all defects are created equal. However, a defect is defined as something that does not meet customer expectations.
Zero defects as a goal can be and is applied to many types of defects. Consider the airline industry where a crash is considered to be a defect.
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