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06 February 2012
Become a Chartered Quality Professional!
Enrol here now and join our growing numbers of students who are enjoying our current 100% pass success rate for the coveted Chartered Institute of Quality (CQI) Diploma in Quality Management leading to the ultimate designation Chartered Quality Professional and its related Certificates. If you are already the Quality Representative in your organisation or if it your aspiration, you should also be THE quality expert in your company. These distance learning courses enable you to do that in the comfort of you...
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12 January 2012
Quality catastrophies
Quality catastophes. Life behind the quality Dykes. Not so many years before he died Dr Juran created a video entitled 'life behind the quality dykes' in which he commented that as we come to rely more and more on technology, the consequences of quality related disasters become more severe. The terrible consequences of the natural disaster of the tsunami impacting on all of the safety measures and predictive statistical calculations in the planning and design of the Fakushima Nuclear Power station puts all ...
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12 January 2012
Human Error
Human Error - information overload? Motorists are in danger of crashing because of an inability to decipher all the information that is thrown at them on their journeys, Our conclusion from this news is that highway planners could do well to attend the DHI course on Human fallibility. According to the director of the RAC Foundation speaking at the Institution of Highways and Transportation Driver Information conference in London. Edmund King, executive director of the RAC Foundation, tells delegates that cl...
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01 June 2011
Fair trade policy
David Hutchins Innovation operates a Fair Trade Policy. We are very conscious that many of the students of our CQI registered Education Centre are individuals paying for their courses out of their own pocket, sometimes they may be concerned about possible redundancy and we respect that.Also, many of our students come from less wealthy countries.DHI Vision. Our fees and value for money are unchallengable from a non subsidised organisation operating from a Western hemisphere industrialised nation and the serv...
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01 June 2011
Toyota recalls
21 October 2010 Last updated at 08:40 Toyota to recall over a million cars in US and Japan - (BBC news web site) The latest recall affects Toyota Avalon cars built between 2005-06, among others Toyota has announced a recall of more than 1.5 million cars worldwide over ...... The announcement follows more than 10 million car recalls by Toyota already in the past year, including 1.1 million Corolla and Matrix cars in the US and Canada recalled in August because of potentially faulty engine control systems. To...
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01 June 2011
Society for Quality Circles
Quality Circles Society - do we need one in the UK?In a past issue of our occasional newsletter Touchstone we reported that during the week of the International Conference on Quality in Japan in 2005 month, both Honda and Toyota seperately announced that they had initiated a policy to aim for 100% membership of Quality Circles in all their operations world wide.Both of these automotive giants of course have extensive operations in the UK.If they are to be successful, it follows that many of their suppliers ...
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01 June 2011
Quality in Schools
Report on the 10th anniversary biannual Quality Circles Convention at the City Montessori School in India November 2007.If this event was exceptional in the past, it was stunning this year. More than 3000 students and teachers took part from across India and from 14 countries. For the first time there was a serious representation from the UK with a team of participants from Kingston University and Richmond College.There were more than 200 children each from both Sri Lanka and Nepal and for the first time a ...
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01 June 2011
Quality Circles or Gemba Kaizen?
Quality Circles or Gemba Kaizen? There are strong indications that the UK is once again beginning to take an interest in Quality Circles or could it be Kaizen? What is in a name? It comes down entirely to personal preference because the two concepts are identical. One indicator is the fact that David Hutchins now long out of print book ‘The Quality Circles Handbook’ is currently changing hands on Amazon at £95.00 per copy! The confusion over the name derives from the fact that the name Quality Circles ...
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01 June 2011
ISO 9001:2000 DTI decision causes chaos?
ISO 9001:2000 DTI decision causes chaos? By David Hutchins, Chairman, David Hutchins International Limited The credibility of ISO 9001:2000 3rd Party Certification is at an all time low and getting lower by the minute. One would imagine that integrity and ethics in such an industry was paramount. One would also imagine that it practiced what it preached and was very carefully controlled and that if any consultancy, training organisation or auditing body stepped out of line it would be severely penalized or ...
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01 June 2011
Hoshin Kanri The Strategic Approach to Continuous Improvement
Hoshin Kanri - The strategic Approach to Continuous ImprovementA new book published by Gower Publishing Click here for full details Available online fromwww.amazon.co.ukwww.countrybookstore.co.uk
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01 June 2011
DHI re-launch Quality Showcase events
DHI re-launch Quality Showcase events Summer 2008 will be the occasion of the re - launch of the popular David Hutchins International business networking events. The hosts for this next event will be in the West Midlands close to the M5 Motorway. David Hutchins says that networking and the cross fertilisation of ideas is essential to business progress. In Japan, JUSE who have been the mainstay of Business Performance Improvement there, established a strong networking structure soon after World War 2 and thi...
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01 June 2011
Steel company slashes costs
Steel Company slashes costs, wins national Quality Award for the fourth year running and moves into the top slot in world class leadershipDavid Hutchins’ client Mobarakeh Steel has rocked the fiercely competitive world of Steel Making by the ruthless application of the quality sciences and disciplines. Starting on their journey towards world class leadership in Quality and Lean manufacturing, as recently as 1998, Mobarakeh began their climb up the steepest possible curve of improved business performance tha...
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