What is QCFI (QUALITY CIRCLE FORUM OF INDIA)?

Posted on: April 15th, 2023 / By: ViVEK A. SHROUTY / Posted in: #QUALiTYViVA, 17 SDG, 7 QC Tools, Kaizen Approach, Kaoru Ishikawa, lean, make in india, Muda, National Safety Day, OEE, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, QCFI, QCI, QMS, Quality, Quality 4.0, Quality Circle, QUALiTYViVA, Safety, Safety , OHSAS OH&S, Seiri , Seiton , Seiso , Seiketsu and Shitsuke, Skill, Total Productive Maintenance, TPM, Training, Visual Controls, ZED / Comment: 0

INTRODUCTION QCFI stands for Quality Circle Forum of India. It is a non-profit organization that works to promote the concept of quality circles in India. Quality circles are small groups of employees who meet regularly to identify, analyse and solve work-related problems. It was established with the objective of promoting the concept of Quality […]

Calculation of OEE- Overall Equipment Efficiency

Posted on: December 20th, 2022 / By: ViVEK A. SHROUTY / Posted in: #QUALiTYViVA, 5S, 7 QC Tools, 8 Wastage, Autonomous Maintenance, Certification, EIGHT PILLARS OF TPM, IATF16949, ISO 9001:2015, Kaizen, Learn, Learning & Development, OEE, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, QCI, QMS, Quality, Quality Circle, Skill, Total Productive Maintenance, TPM, Training, ViVEK_SHROUTY / Comment: 0

OEE is an important metric, as it ties-in, well with the objectives of TPM program, which aims at having, Zero-defects, Zero-breakdowns and Zero-stops in the production process. The three components of overall equipment effectiveness metric are: Availability Performance Quality The definitions of each of above components are as below, Availability – is a measure of […]

WASH, from Quality Council of India (QCI)

Posted on: July 28th, 2020 / By: ViVEK A. SHROUTY / Posted in: #QUALiTYViVA, NABL, QCI / Comment: 0

We all are going through the difficult phase of pandemic, because of Corona virus disease, COVID 19 which stopped all the activities in the society and seriously impact on industries, businesses and organizations. So, what’s the Extra Edge? Role of Management System Management system plays the important role in planning the activities align with organization’s […]

100 years of quality

Posted on: November 11th, 2019 / By: ViVEK A. SHROUTY / Posted in: #QUALiTYViVA, 5S, 7 QC Tools, 8 Wastage, ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 17025:2017, Kaizen, QCI, QMS, Quality, World Standard Day, WQD2019, WSD2018 / Comment: 0

100 years of quality, #CQIat100 is theme for this year celebration of World Quality Day, #WQD2019. The reason behind this theme is, Chartered Quality Institute, CQI is celebrating its centenary this year. The Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) is the professional body for experts in quality management With 19,000 members located in 130 countries. World Quality […]

The Hurdles and challenges in implementation of quality concepts programme and a way forward for its success in organizations

Posted on: December 26th, 2018 / By: ViVEK A. SHROUTY / Posted in: #QUALiTYViVA, 5S, Kaizen, lean, NCQC2018, QCFI, QCI / Comment: 0

( This article is in continuation to last article dated 25.12.2018 “QCFI – NCQC-2018 Souvenir and My Article”) There are various hurdles and challenges for success of the quality concepts (like Lean Management, Six Sigma, Kaizen, 5S, Quality Circle and others) programme. Some of them are mentioned as below, which are commonly referred as failures: […]

The 7 QC Tools

Posted on: June 10th, 2018 / By: ViVEK A. SHROUTY / Posted in: 7 QC Tools, Kaoru Ishikawa, QCI, Quality, Quality Circle / Comment: 0

Kaoru Ishikawa a professor of engineering at Tokyo University first gives the “7 QC Tools” to world. He is knows as father of “Quality Circle”. Kaoru Ishikawa The 7 QC tools developed / originated in japan and also called as seven basics tools. These 7 tools comprise of graphical presentation such as histogram and statistical […]

Quality Management, Zero Defects Zero Effect (ZED) way

Posted on: December 16th, 2017 / By: ViVEK A. SHROUTY / Posted in: #QUALiTYViVA, 5S, Kaizen, QCI, Quality, ZED / Comment: 0

The quality management is a very old concept with aim to improve the quality standard of the product(s) or the service(s). The basic and fundamental concepts of Quality Management are: Customer satisfaction Continuous improvement to attain next level of benchmark Cost reduction Reduction in waste Involvement of all stakeholder Upgrading knowledge of human resources The […]

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