THE HISTRICAL CHANGES OF JAPANESE QUALITY CONTROL AND TRENDS AND TASKS OF QUALITY ISSUES

  • Tanaka Hiroshi (Fuculty of Management and Information Science, Shikoku University)
  • Published : 1998.11.01

Abstract

TQC, the features of Japanese QC (JQC), is forced to change now. There are many problems related to QC field, such as magnification of quality objects, social quality, thoroughness of CS, enforcement of PL law, applications of ISO standards concerning the QA system and the environmental management system, and still more recent American industrial tendency which attaches importance to TQM and so forth. Qn the occasion of JQC have passed for fifty years, since 1945. I would like to look back upon its QC history and discuss the meaning of the recent changes in QC concepts and the theoretical framework of its QC.

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