Integrating Productivity and Quality Management

Productivity and quality management concepts; productivity and total quality management challenges, opportunities, and scope of activities; the productivity-quality connection; productivity measurement; productivity and quality improvement through statistical process control; productivity and quality planning; techniques for resolving quality problems; productivity and quality improvement strategies and techniques; techniques for improving employee productivity, morale and employment; establishing and managing a productivity and quality improvement program; consumer satisfaction - a drive for quality and productivity improvement. Appendices: statistical tables; blank work forms for statistical control implementation; constants and formulas for control charts; blank work forms for the implementation of task analysis technique (TAT) for cost of quality computations; selected productivity and quality centers.