Quality Control Circle (QCC) is a small circle group (also known as QC team generally about 6 people) formed spontaneously by the same, similar, or complementary nature of the workplace of the people in the circle of several people, all cooperation, brainstorming, in accordance with a certain program of activities to solve the problems and issues occurring in the workplace, management, culture and so on. Work site, management, culture and other aspects of the problems and issues. It is a more lively form of quality control. The purpose is to improve product quality and improve work efficiency .
All cooperation, brainstorming, according to a certain activity program to solve the work site, management, culture and other aspects of the problems and issues. It began with Professor Deming's Statistical Methods course in 1950 and Professor Juran's Quality Management course in 1954. QC circle activity was created by Japanese doctor in 1962, and it is mostly called quality management team in China. Instead of just training engineers and supervisors, the Japanese have a plan to massively improve productivity.
QC department in the United States is a very large department, members include quality control engineers, credibility engineers and some experts in other fields, in contrast to Japan, extensive teaching managers in various fields of quality control methods can be downsized to a strong QC department as well as specialized engineers. By April 1966, there were more than 10,000 QC circles in Japan.
And each circle demonstrated the following qualities, saving an average of $3,000 per circle. The total improvement **** in Japan as a whole amounted to a $300 million dollar benefit. Managers and engineers don't have to spend time to have these results, and still deal with cross-departmental and high-level operational programs. Analyze more unexpected problems, reduce variability and prevent recurrence. There are many great management practices in the workplace, such as clearer metrics, more complete practices, better numeric feedback, and control charts.