Quality Tools for Continuous Quality Improvement

There are a number of quality tools around that can help you with continuous quality improvement, most of which have been around for many years and proven many times over. These quality tools range from the easy tally chart as used by kids to do surveys at school to advanced statistical tools.

Continuous Quality Improvement is a vital skill that all businesses must implement if they wish to survive. Without a planned program of continuous improvement utilizing the various quality tools a company will fail to improve their business processes.Failure to apply continuous quality improvement to all of a company's products and processes will eventually lead to competitors offering better products and services, enabling them to take your business.

This Article will discuss the various Quality Tools and how they can help you with Continuous quality improvement. These quality tools are tried and tested, having been around for many years in most cases. Introduced by the various quality gurus such as Deming and Juran into the Japanese manufacturing industry after world war two, these ideas have helped them out compete the west.
These quality tools will help you to collect data and then arrange that data to be able to analyze it and find root causes to your problems. Using other tools you will be able to define solutions and monitor processes to ensure compliance and continual quality improvement.
Future postings within this blog will deal with the various quality tools that are available to use to help you drive continuous quality improvement.