Life and Works of Quality Guru Joseph Juran
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- Establish quality goals
- Identify the customers- those who will be impacted by the efforts to meet the goal.
- Determine the customers' needs
- Develop product features that respond to customers' needs
- Develop processes that can produce those product features
- Establish process controls, and transfer the resulting plans to the operating forces
- Evaluate actual quality performance
- Compare actual performance to quality goals
- Act on the difference
- Establish the quality improvement infrastructure
- Identify the improvement projects
- For each project establish a project team with clear responsibility
- Provide the resource, motivation, and training needed by the team
- Build awareness of the need and opportunity to improve
- Set goals for that improvement
- Create plans to reach the goals
- Provide training
- Conduct projects to solve problems
- Report on progress
- Give recognition for success
- Communicate results
- Keep score
- Maintain momentum
Born: Dec 24, 1904
Died: Feb 28, 2008
Juran is best known for:
Juran's Trilogy - Juran's trilogy consists of Quality Planning, Quality Control, and Quality Improvement.
10 Steps of Quality Improvement
Quality Control Handbook — Juran published the first edition of the Quality Control Handbook in 1951.
Cost of Quality - Juran defined the Cost of Quality as tangible and intangible costs.
Pareto Principle - Juram emphasized the application of the Pareto Principle (80:20 rule) in the field of Quality Management.
A Brief Introduction:
Joseph Juran was a management consultant specializing in managing for quality. He has authored hundreds of papers and 12 books, including Juran's Quality control handbook, Quality Planning and Analysis, and Juran on Leadership for Quality.
Timeline
1951: Joseph Juran publishing Quality Control Handbook.
The Mid 50s: Like Deming, Joseph Juran travelled to Japan to conduct the Quality Management seminars for top and middle-level executives.
Juran's Trilogy
Juran's Quality Trilogy is an approach to cross-functional management that is composed of three managerial processes: planning, control, and improvement.
1. Quality Planning
Quality Planning is the activity of developing the products and processes required to meet customer's needs. It involves:
2. Quality Control
This process consists of the following steps:
3. Quality Improvement
This process is the means of raising quality performance to unprecedented levels (breakthrough). This involves:
Cost of Quality
The cost of quality, or not getting it right the first time, Juran maintained should be recorded and analyzed and classified into failure costs, appraisal costs and prevention costs.
1. Failure Cost
Scrap, rework, corrective actions, warranty claims, customer complaints and loss of custom
2. Appraisal Cost
Inspection, compliance auditing, and investigations
3. Prevention Cost
Training, preventive auditing, and process improvement implementation
Pareto Principle
Juran emphasized that 80% of problems are created by 20% causes. Organizations should identify the vital few (20%) causes and take actions to remove them from the system.
Quality Improvement - 10 Steps
Juran proposed ten steps to quality improvement:
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