Life and Works of Quality Guru Joseph Juran

• 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 - Juran 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:
• 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

• 2. Quality Control
  

  
  This process consists of the following steps:
• Evaluate actual quality performance
• Compare actual performance to quality goals
• Act on the difference

• 3. Quality Improvement
  

  
  This process is the means of raising quality performance to unprecedented levels (breakthrough). This involves:
• 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
  
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  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:

• 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