LIST OF 100 METHODS FOR TQM
Management methods
- Acceptable quality level (AQL)
- Affinity diagram
- Arrow diagram
- Benchmarking
- Consensus reaching
- Contingency planning
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Criteria testing
- Customers’ contingency table
- Deming wheel (PDCA)
- Departmental purpose analysis (DPA)
- Error proofing (pokayoke)
- Force analysis
- Gannt charts
- ISO 9000
- Just in time (JIT)
- Kaizen
- Mystery shopping
- Objective ranking
- Pareto analysis
- Potential problem analysis (PPA)
- Problem prevention plan
- Process decision programme chart
- Programme evaluation and review (PER) technique
- Quality circles
- Quality function deployment (QFD)
- Relation diagram
- Teamwork
- Total productive maintenance
- Why-how charting
- Zero difects
Analytical methods
- Cause and effect analysis
- Critical path analysis (CPA)
- Departmental cost of quality
- Domainal mapping
- Evolutionary operation (EVOP)
- Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA)
- Fault tree analysis
- Force field analysis
- Minute analysis
- Paired comparisons
- Parameter design
- Process cost of quality
- Reliability
- Robust design (off-line quality control)
- Solution effect analysis
- Stratification
- System design
- Taguchi methods
- Tolerance design
Idea generation
- Brainstorming
- Brainwriting
- Breaking set
- Buzz groups
- Idea writing
- Imagineering
- Improve internal process (IIP) plan
- Lateral thinking
- List reduction
- Mind mapping
- Morphological forced connections
- Multi-voting
- Nominal group technique
- Opportunity analysis
- Rich pictures
- Snowballing
- Suggestion schemes
Date collection analysis and display
- Bar charts
- Basic statistics
- Box and whisker plots
- C chart
- Checksheets
- Concentration diagrams
- Cusum chart
- Dot plots
- Flowcharts
- Geometric moving average
- Histograms
- Hoshin kanri (quality policy deployment)
- Is/is not matrix
- Matrix data analysis
- Matrix diagram
- Moving average
- Multi-vari charts
- NP chart
- Paynter chart
- P chart
- Pie charts
- Process analysis
- Process capability
- Sampling
- Scatter diagrams
- Spider web diagrams
- Statistical process control (SPC)
- Stem and leaf diagram
- Tally charts
- Tree diagrams
- U chart
- X moving range (X-MR) chart
100. X-R chart