Sense of MEASUREMENT - part 1

The Kaizen philosophy is an introduced Japanese concept from Toyota in years '40- '50, that it supposes that every function of our life should be constantly improved.

It is based on the principle that “the energy comes from the bottom “, that is on the understanding of the result in an enterprise does not come caught up from the management, but from the directed job on the product.

The management assumes now a new function, not much assumes therefore one legacy to the hierarchical management as far as the support of the been involved directly in the production.

The cycle of Deming (famous also as PDCA cycle) is the natural evolution of these concepts and is a model studied for the continuous improvement of the quality in an optical over a long time from the american statistic W. Edwards Deming in Japan in the 50'.

The acronym identifies the several ones makes that they constitute the model:
- Plan: establish objects to obtain and the necessary processes
- Do: execute the processes
- Check: test the results
- Act: act in order to fix or to improve the process.
The model of Deming was to the base of the industrial miracle of Japan of the post-war period.

A model of this type previews that to the term of one determined activity or process they are carried out of the measurements of the result and after to reports the feedbacks at the beginnig of the cycle for being able to improve the process.
Every point of arrival becomes the beginning for the next step.
In this way are expressed the concepts of “continuous improvement” and of “total quality”.

The certification of quality ISO 9001:2000 (also known as Vision 2000) resumes these concepts: the certification of previous quality previewed that the business processes had to be apply to you well, while with Vision 2000 it is demanded that the processes are apply “in the best way”.
This is a great difference.

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