Author : Narender Kumar and Vijay Mittal

Quality Circle is a team of employees of various relevant departments which emphasis on providing opportunities of reducing in house or customer complaints in Final Inspection Department through effective analysis of Final Inspection data which results in cost reduction through achieving zero defect or defect free manufacturing in all aspects of organization. The methodology gives platform and opportunity to individuals to identify scope of improvements which result in ease, effective and efficient work and work culture. There are several steps to implement quality circle methodology to achieve the desired results. Quality Tools such as Pareto chart, line and arrows diagrams are used for improvement in any organization in which Pareto Diagram is studied as a prime source to identify and selecting problem for improvement in any industry. Quality Circle Methodology can be applied to any industrial culture more than one time to a process until it reaches to its optimum capacity reduce quality cost in any of the industrial process.. The implementation of Quality Circle Methodology helps in achieving efficient production by analysis of data of various products and processes. It involves improvement in process through the process of finding route cause and implement corrective and preventive action to any process. It also improves the quality through reduction of PPM to certain level in a process and improves the quality standard through provide proper system to final inspection area which results achieving zero defect level in certain defects. Although this approach uses existing quality management system and problem solving tools, its application is to provide more thorough approach to improve work conditions, reducing or eliminate waste or non-value added work during any job change over or regular production.

Keywords: Quality Circle, PPM etc.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.5, No.1 (Feb-2015)