In January 2010 the company earned ISO 9001:2008 certification of its quality management processes.
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The report's findings mean that the District Council will have to designate a formal Air Quality Management Area.
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Mr. SAM ATWOOD (Media Manager, Coast Air Quality Management District): And that is a very conservative calculation, actually.
What Mr Welch cared about was quality hence his embrace of the Six Sigma programme for total-quality management.
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Air-quality management with measures to reduce emissions from aircraft, vehicles, auxiliary power units (APUs) and ground power units (GPU).
The junction of Lower Guildford Road, Highclere Road and High Street, Knaphill has been declared an air quality management area.
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There are still many sectors where Japanese firms are world leaders, based primarily on superior engineering, materials, manufacturing and quality management.
In the 1990s, ISO9000 (a quality management system) spread through many industries.
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Among its sourcing safeguards, the company prequalifies and continually monitors its overseas factories to ensure that quality management systems are in place.
They concern management practices that at some point emerge and become popular, such as the old Total Quality Management, ISO9000 system or SixSigma.
Total Quality Management (TQM, ) Continuous Improvement (CI, ) and Six Sigma programs all have been glorified by companies hoping to improve product or service quality.
The high quality management is likely to give SanDisk a competitive edge as it fights to maintain its large presence in the flash industry.
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When onsite quality management was not provided, Boeing had to jump in anyway, dispatching hundreds of engineers to try and solve supplier-level problems delaying production.
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Yet the real reason for fading fads is not that executives have built into their everyday activities such now-familiar ideas as core competences and total-quality management.
The journey might begin to look a lot like Hoshin-Kanri planning, which is a planning approach originating from the Total Quality Management movement.
Four years ago, Cotswold District Council made an Air Quality Management Area Order because the NO2 levels at the Air Balloon roundabout exceeded the recommended thresholds.
Steve, in short, leaves the company in the best shape in its history: it has immense amounts of cash, killer products, high quality management and devoted customers.
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The former boss of Coca-Cola's Mexican operation, whose 58th birthday fell on election day, talks of infusing government with total quality management and tracking it with performance indicators.
They have vision, deep product pipelines, quality management.
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He said that Deming was more focused on the statistical analysis of quality whereas he, Juran, was more concerned about the human input, teaching people how to introduce what he called CWQM (company-wide quality management).
He had earned his CBE by 1989, long before he was snapped up by a flagging BT keen to tap his "international experience, his dedication to quality management, and his in-depth knowledge of the computing services industry".
The Toyota and Boeing stories underscore starkly contrasted approaches to outsourcing, supply chain management, and the quality management needed in a marketplace where public fears fester each time a serious product risk is traced to a foreign source.
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This study, published in Personnel Psychology, compares two groups of activities that aim to increase company productivity: those related to human resources, such as training and teamwork, and those related to operational management, such as just-in-time production and total-quality management.
Even Joseph Juran, one of the two American post-war germinators of the quality idea (the other was W. Edwards Deming), considered that quality circles were pretty useless if the company's management was not trained in the more general principles of total quality management.
In addition, CSCO has several signs of high-quality management: a top quintile return on invested capital ( ROIC) of 18%, few asset write-downs (less than 10% of net assets), and a compound annual growth rate for NOPAT of 26% over the past 10 years.
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Quality of management, not business models, is better at explaining the difference in performance between banks.
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But shareholders are more interested in what all of this says about the quality of management further up the bank.
In industries where public safety must be ensured, engineers and technicians depend on different versions of this widely recognized quality-management system.
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Over time, the quality of management at these state firms, which had become more professional over the past decade, will surely suffer.
His three professed principles were to deliver promptly on promises, to avoid layoffs and to make certain that his employees trusted the quality of management's leadership.
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