Matching the promotion of total quality control and total productive manitenance: An emerging pattern for the nurturing of well-balanced manufacturers

The merits of adopting a more eclectic approach that integrates the exploitation of the strengths exhibited by selected, key management paradigms, in the strive to nurturing well-balance manufacturing firms capable of surviving and prospering in markets where competitiveness is ever increasing are d...

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Published in:Total quality management & business excellence 1999-03, Vol.10 (2), p.243
Main Author: Dario Ikuo Miyake: Takao Enkawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Comparative analysis
Competition
Competitive advantage
Core competencies
Goal setting
Maintenance management
Manufacturers
Manufacturing
Organization development
Paradigms
Productivity
Quality control
Strategic management
Strategic planning
Studies
Total quality
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Summary:The merits of adopting a more eclectic approach that integrates the exploitation of the strengths exhibited by selected, key management paradigms, in the strive to nurturing well-balance manufacturing firms capable of surviving and prospering in markets where competitiveness is ever increasing are discussed. Concepts providing theoretical grounds to such an approach are reviewed. A comparative analysis of the total quality control (TQC) and total productive maintenance (TPM) paradigms which is developed which shows that they can be complementary to each other. Grounded on insights acquired from a comparative investigation of archetypal practitioners of TQC and TPM, in particular, the concurrent promotion of enantiomorphic sides and approaches featured by these paradigms is shown not to be antagonistic but rather mandatory nowadays. On that account, the promising potential of exploiting the strengths that are intrinsic to these two subject paradigms for fostering the new competencies that firms must be equipped with is highlighted. It is advocated that such a manufacturing strategy can be deployed by the cumulative, stepwise and consistent embedding of performance improvement mechanisms derived from each of the subject paradigms under the framework of unfolding strategic staircases.
ISSN:1478-3363
1478-3371