Lean manufacturing - TQMIt is well known that lean manufacturing had been influenced by many techniques and schools of thoughts. One such management thinking is TQM or Total Quality Management. Influence of TQM on lean manufacturing is very large and therefore many techniques are common to both lean manufacturing and TQM. In lean manufacturing, we can discus TQM as one of its prime tools used to achieve its objective. Many of TQM gurus like Deming and Juran played a major role in shaping Toyota production system. So it is worth learning some of the total quality management techniques and tools which are commonly used in lean manufacturing. It is said that lean manufacturing can bring all the results TQM alone can bring quickly. |
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