Armand Feigenbaum
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Armand Feigenbaum
Born: 1922
Occupation: Engineer and Quality Control
• KEY LEARNING POINTS• Armand V. Feigenbaum’s definition of quality: A way of running a business
organization.• Key Beliefs: Systems thinking, relevant measurement, participation.• Principal Methods: The four steps to quality, operating quality costs.
Biography
• Armand Vallin Feigenbaum (born 1922) is an American quality control expert and businessman. Feigenbaum was “the first in the United States to move quality from the offices of the specialist back to the operating workers”.
He devised the concept of Total Quality Control, later known as Total Quality Management (TQM).
• Feigenbaum received a bachelor's degree from Union College, and his master's degree and Ph.D. from MIT.
• He was Director of Manufacturing Operations at General Electric (1958-1968), and is now President and CEO of General Systems Company of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, an engineering firm that designs and installs operational systems.
• Feigenbaum served as President of the American Society for Quality (1961-1963), which awarded him the Edwards Medal and Lancaster Award for his international contribution to quality and productivity.
Contributions
His contributions to the quality body of knowledge include:
• "Total quality control is an effective system for integrating the quality development, quality maintenance, and quality improvement efforts of the various groups in an organization so as to enable production and service at the most economical levels which allow full customer satisfaction.“
• The concept of a "hidden" plant—the idea that so much extra work is performed in correcting mistakes that there is effectively a hidden plant within any factory.
• Accountability for quality: Because quality is everybody's job, it may become nobody's job—the idea that quality must be actively managed and have visibility at the highest levels of management.
• The concept of quality costs
Feigenbaum’s 3 Step Process
Feigenbaum’s 3 Step Process for Improving Quality:
• Quality Leadership – motivating force for quality improvement• Quality Technology – statistics and machinery used to improve technology• Organizational Commitment – includes everyone in the quality struggle
Feigenbaum’s 4 Deadly Sins
Feigenbaum’s 4 Deadly Sins:
• Hot House Quality – Quality programs that receive a lot of hoopla and no follow-through
• Wishful Thinking – Those who would pursue protectionism to keep American firms from having to compete on quality
• Producing Overseas
• Confining Quality to the Factory – When quality is viewed as a shop-floor concern, verses the responsibility of everyone
Feigenbaum’s 19 Steps
1. Total quality control is defined as a system for improvement.
2. Big Q quality (company-wide commitment to TQC) is more important than little q quality (improvements on the production line).
3. Control is a management tool with four steps.
4. Quality control requires integration of uncoordinated activities.
5. Quality increases profits.
6. Quality is expected, not desired.
7. Humans affect quality.
Feigenbaum’s 19 Steps( cont..)
8. TQC applies to all products and services.
9. Quality is a total life-cycle consideration.
10. Control the process.
11. Total quality system involves the entire company-wide operating work structure.
12. There are many operating and financial
benefits of quality.
13. The costs of quality are a means for
measuring quality control activities.
Feigenbaum’s 19 Steps( cont..)
14. Organize for quality control.
15. Managers are quality facilitators, not quality
cops.
16. Strive for continuous commitment.
17. Use statistical tools.
18. Automation is not a panacea.
19. Control quality at the source.
Books
• Quality Control: Principles, Practice, and Administration, McGraw-Hill, 1951
• Total Quality Control: Achieving Productivity, Market Penetration, and Advantage in the Global Economy, 1983, 1985, 1991, 2010(Yet to be Released)
• The Power of Management Capital, McGraw-Hill, 2003 ( co- author Donald S. Feigenbaum)
• Total Quality Control, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2004• Process Management Excellence: The Art of Excelling
in Process Management, 2006
Books( cont..)
• The power of Management innovation: 24 Keys for Sustaining and Accelerating Business Growth And Productivity(co-author Donald S. Feigenbaum), 2009
Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors of Feigenbaum:
• Recipient of ASQ's Lancaster Award• ASQ 1965 Edwards Medal in recognition of "his origination and implementation of
basic foundations for modern quality control"• National Security Industrial Association Award of Merit• Member of the Advisory Group of the U.S. Army• Chairman of a system-wide evaluation of quality assurance activities of the Army
Material Command• Consultant with the Industrial College of the Armed Forces• Union College Founders Medal• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science• Life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers• Life member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers• Life member of Plymouth Society of Marine Biology
Thank you
- Tata Reddy