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List of Topics For Presentation
List of Topics For Presentation
by
Pradip V. Mehta
Fellow, American Society for Quality
Apparel Quality
Characteristics of a quality apparel and ways to make sure quality apparel are
produced during manufacturing are covered in this topic.
Discussed here six thought leaders who had a lasting impact on quality
management practices throughout the world. These thought leaders are:
Crosby, Deming, Feigenbaum, Ishikawa, Juran, and Taguchi.
When it comes to clothing, one normally does not think that a clothing item can
pose hazard, however, this presentation will address several hazards posed by
children’s clothing and show ways to address them.
Customer-Supplier Relations
Having better product quality than your competitor does not necessarily guaranty
survival in business. This presentation shows how to use proven quality
improvement approaches to move from excellent product quality to overall
excellence in business operations in order to compete in increasingly globalized
world we live in today.
Quality cannot be managed effectively unless you can define quality and get
everyone in the company to agree to it and understand it. This presentation will
expose you to different ways of thinking about quality and let you decide what
definition suits best to your situation. This presentation will change the way you
think about quality.
Quality of raw materials, parts, sub-assemblies, etc. received from suppliers has
significant impact on the quality of the final product. This presentation addresses
how to help your suppliers to improve their processes and process controls so
that ultimately quality of what your make or sell improves and it reduces your cost
of quality.
Various statistical sampling plans for effective control pf quality during apparel
manufacturing are covered in this presentation.
Six Sigma is ubiquitous today. One can hardly pick up a business publication
today that does not have an item on Six Sigma. This presentation shows what
Six Sigma is, explains the statistical principle behind it, and points out
advantages of effective Six Sigma implementation
ISO 9000
This presentation explains ISO 9000 Quality Management System and its
requirements for ISO 9000 certification or registration.
This presentation shows the relationship between quality and profitability and
dispels the myth that better quality costs more.
Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC), and Quality Management – Are
They all the Same?
This presentation explains what QA, QC, and Quality Management each mean
and how they are different from each other, yet how they complement each
other.
This presentation will show how auditing techniques can be applied to quality
system to find areas for improvement. Discussed are principles of audit and
good auditing techniques and practices.
Quality by Design
Quality can not be inspected in products or can not be put into products after
products are made. This presentation will show how to take quality into
consideration during design phase.
Quality Costs
There are two aspects of cost of quality. One is the cost of quality function and
the other is the cost of poor quality. This presentation will show various elements
of each aspects of cost of quality and how to calculate total quality costs.
This presentation will show how to identify quality improvement project and get
started.
This presentation will show how to use customer satisfaction or rather, customer
dissatisfaction for quality improvement.
For those organizations that do not either manufacture or purchase by their own
specifications, the best way to assure and improve product quality is through end
item inspection and testing. Even when suppliers of such organizations build
quality into products that they manufacture using Quality Function deployment
(QFD), Taguchi approach, Statistical Process Control (SPC), In-Process Quality
Control, etc. end item inspection and testing indicate how effective those quality
measures are. This presentation discusses how to plan and manage end item
inspection and testing.
Quality Management
This presentation will explain the discipline of quality management the same as
financial management or marketing management.
Covered here are quality management principles and practices for retailers of
consumer products.
Social Responsibility
Consumers today not only want good quality products but they do not want those
products made by child labor and in unsafe environment. This presentation will
discuss retailers’ and manufacturers’ response to increasing awareness about
working conditions and efforts to improve them. Also, discussed here are various
Social responsibility management Systems, such as SA 8000 (Social
Accountability, International), WRAP (Worldwide Responsible Apparel
Production), and FLA (Fair Labor Association).
Standards and Specifications
Statistical Sampling
Customer complaints and returns are the best source of information about what
customers want. That’s why, the area of customer complaints and customer
returns is called a “gold mine.” This presentation will show you how to harness
this gold mine to one’s advantage.
This presentation will dispel the myth that ISO 9000 is used only to achieve
certification or registration. This presentation will show how to use various ISO
9000 Quality Management System clauses or requirements to drive improvement
in your organization and/or in your supplier organization.
What is Quality?
Quality means different things to different people. This presentation will expose
you to different ways of thinking about quality and let you decide what definition
suits best to your situation. This presentation will change the way you think
about quality.