Total Quality Management Report: Ford Motor Company Australia Analysis

This report provides an in-depth analysis of Total Quality Management (TQM) implementation, using Ford Motor Company Australia as a case study. It explores the core concepts of TQM, including its principles, benefits, and the rationale for its adoption. The report outlines various TQM tools and techniques, such as Pareto charts and Ishikawa diagrams, to identify and address quality issues. It also details the steps involved in implementing a TQM initiative, including the importance of ISO 9000 certification. The report focuses on how Ford Australia can enhance its operations, improve customer satisfaction, and achieve its business goals through effective TQM strategies, emphasizing employee involvement, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making. The report also includes the importance of management audits and continuous improvements to sustain TQM in the long run.

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Executive summary
The report describes how to implement total quality management practice in business and other
organizations. Ford Motor vehicle is a business company in Australia that was selected to
conduct the implementation analysis process. The description also shows various tools and
techniques that are employed in TQM. Implementing a good TQM enables the Company to have
a lot of benefits. ISO9000 accreditation is the best design approach that best suits the Ford Motor
vehicles.
There are very many approaches of implementing total quality management, and all those
approaches have their and advantages and their disadvantages. What matters is how the selected
approach is relevant to the companies’ current situation that they want to improve. ISO 9000 is
the standard that was used in the report to enable the implementation of TQM so that the
Company can achieve more goals and targets in their daily operations. Pareto diagrams and
Ishikawa diagrams were used in the report to analyze and determine improvements.

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Table of Contents
Executive summary.....................................................................................................................................2
Introduction...............................................................................................................................................4
Aim.........................................................................................................................................................5
Objectives...............................................................................................................................................5
Scope.......................................................................................................................................................6
Body: Implementing TQM Quality management...................................................................................6
Quality management tools....................................................................................................................7
Pareto charts......................................................................................................................................7
Ishikawa diagrams.............................................................................................................................8
TQM Rationale......................................................................................................................................9
Why TQM should be implemented in Ford Australia....................................................................9
Importance of implementing TQM in Ford Australia..................................................................10
TQM outcomes....................................................................................................................................10
What to implement within Ford Australia as part of the TQM initiative...................................10
Concepts of TQM.............................................................................................................................12
Tools and techniques used when Implementing TQM..................................................................12
Plan Do Check and Act (PDCA).....................................................................................................12
TQM Implementation Plan.................................................................................................................13
How to implement the TQM initiative within Ford Australia..........................................................13
ISO 9000 certification......................................................................................................................14
Describe how you intend to implement the TQM initiative within the business.........................15
Conclusion................................................................................................................................................16
References................................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction
Quality management is the process of overseeing that all tasks and activities that must be
completed to as to maintain the required level of excellence. It involves determining the quality
policies, making and employing quality assurance, quality control, and quality management.
Some systems are designed to play an essential role in the continued process of improving
business organizations. The quality management discipline ensures that the stakeholder's
requirements are met through providing that outputs, benefits, and procedures are in the proper
order (Hoyle, 2017). There is quality management principles like ISO that are used to govern this
discipline to ensure that all the standards are met. Quality management has four components:
quality planning, assurance, planning, and control.
Total Quality Management (TQM) is a process that shows the administration approach to long
term achievement through customer satisfaction. All members in an organization like the Ford
Motor Company work to improve the products, their services, principles, and their underlying
culture. TQM can be termed as an administration structure in a customer-focused business that
includes all their workers in a recurrent development (Fonseca, 2015). There are 8 principles of
TQM: Customer-focused, full employee participation, fact-based decision making, systematic
tactic, continual upgrading, process-centered, unified system, and communications (Rumane,
2017).
When implementing TQM, a company should consider integrating all quality-related purposes
and processes during the company operations. TQM takes into interpretation all the quality
procedures that are taken at all levels linking to all company workers. Companies like Ford
motor company in Australia have tried to implement TQM in their operations. They use it to
make improvements in their operations and avoid mistakes that can be identified. Companies

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should focus on improving their process when implementing TQM so that they improve their
operations, incorporating the knowledge and experiences of workers (Lodgaard et al., 2016).
The report focuses on a business company called Ford Motor Company, mostly known as Ford
Australia. It is an Australian subsidiary of the United States-based automaker Ford motor
company. It was founded in the year 1925, and the founder was Henry Ford and dealt with
Automotive. In the Company TQM is the foundation of various activities that include:
 Improvement of teams
 Meeting customer requirements
 Reduced costs of products
 Improving plans
 Systems improvement
Aim
The main aim of the report is to explain how businesses can use TQM to enhance their
operations and quality of their products. It enables companies and stakeholders to work closely
to improve the Company's services product services, and culture to gain success to improve
customer satisfaction. Quality management principles like ISO that is used to govern this
discipline to ensure that all the standards are met.
Objectives
To determine the benefits that the Company gains when they implement total quality
management in their operations.
To identify the rationale for the change in total quality management implementation.

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To identify different approaches that can be used to implement successful total quality
management in a company.
Scope
The report shows the implementation of Total quality management in Ford Motor Company in
the sector of automotive manufacturing and the benefits that are realized. TQM seeks to integrate
all the organization functions in the Company ranging from finance, design, engineering, and
customer services so that it can meet customer needs and the main aims of the Company.
Body: Implementing TQM Quality management
TQM views businesses and companies as a collection of processes. It states that businesses
should strive to develop these processes by using understanding and knowledges from their
workers. The objective of using TQM is to ensure that things are done in the right way for the
first time and for every time (Chen, Anchecta, Lee, & Dahlgaard, 2016). In Australia, various
companies like Philips, Semiconductor, Toyota, and Motorola have implemented the use of
TQM. It is a generic management tool that is applicable to public and private sector companies.
TQM has the following Principles; Employee empowerment, management commitment,
continuous improvement, customer focus, and fact-based decision making (Al-Damen, 2017).
The importance of implementing a TQM is to get the assigned tasks are completed at the right
time and with maximum improvement (Chang, 2016). The following steps are followed when
creating and implementing TQM in Ford Motor Company:
a) Clarify the mission and vision- all the workers must know where the Company is heading
and what the aim to achieve.

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b) Determine critical success factors- They enable organizations to focus on activities that
can help the Company to reach the set goals and achieve the mission (Long, Looijen, &
Blok, 2018).
c) Develop measures to determine the critical success factors- if the CSF is known, there
should be measures that can be used to track the progress.
d) Determine the key customers- When a company knows the groups of their customers
they create products that can meet their requirements. It will much motivate customers all
the time.
e) Solicit customer feedback- For the Company to know that they are meeting the customer
requirements, they have to ask questions and receive answers from them. Most
companies make mistakes without knowing and tend to ask customers the wrong survey
questions.
f) Develop a survey tool- Create a device that is based on determining how customers have
been satisfied.
g) Develop an improvement plan- It is developed after the Company gets feedback from the
surveyed groups.
h) Technology- Use an improved technology that is user-friendly, and its content is well
understood.
Quality management tools
Pareto charts
This is a graph that shows the defects of using frequencies and also showing their cumulative
defects (Rojac et al., 2017). These charts will enable Ford Australia to find the defects to
prioritize so that they can observe the greatest overall improvement. The diagrams enables the
managers to have a summary of the practical information showing the critical factors.

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Example of a Pareto chart
The above diagram shows how the company should use the defects that can be identified so that
it can regulate the cause of the overheating of engines. If the company puts measures to improve
this, they can be able to meet the customer requirements and thus remaining competitive.
Ishikawa diagrams
These are casual diagrams created by Kaoru Ishikawa to show the causes of a specific events
(Suárez-Barraza, & Rodríguez-González, 2019). The diagrams are used to design and prevent
defects that can cause an overall effect to a product.

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Ishikawa diagram
The above diagram shows the cause of a specific event in the Ford Motor Company and the
effects that can results. After the combination of all the causes the results can be positive or
negative depending on the causes.
NB: Pareto diagrams best fits to be used in the Ford Motor Company because they are able to
determine the defects showing their impact thus the company is able to make improvements.
TQM Rationale
Why TQM should be implemented in Ford Australia
This part describes why the rationale was chosen when implementing Total Quality
Management. Ford Australia uses the TQM to acknowledge the fact that human beings were
involved in the process, and there are a room for error (Tan, 2018). The method of implementing
the process was chosen because it has guideline rules to control the operations. The rules state
that:
 Provisions are available to ensure that there are no rooms for mistakes.
 The system should detect errors effectively.

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 If an error is found, the authority should ensure that the process is stopped to ensure that
there are no more errors.
Importance of implementing TQM in Ford Australia
When implementing TQM in Ford Australia, the following benefits are realized:
 Strengthens the Company's competitive advantage.
 Adapts easily to the changing and emerging marketing conditions and other
regulations.
 Increased productivity
 Reduced waste of resources
 Reduced cost of production
 Improved customer satisfaction
 Increased motivation for innovation for the employees
 Improved customer retention
 Better shareholders and stakeholder relationships.
TQM outcomes
What to implement within Ford Australia as part of the TQM initiative.
The part answers what we want to achieve when we implement TQM in Ford, Australia.
Through the use of TQM, the Company can improve the quality of its products such as vehicles,
machinery, spare parts and services such as marketing and advertisement. The process is
enhanced when the Company gets continuous feedback from the customers (Eaidgah et al.,
2016). The main goal is to do the right thing well for the first time, and all the other times
making sure that resources are not wasted when fixed repeated mistakes. The target and some of
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resources in automotive cannot be wasted when fixing broken processes. Improvements should
be made in the Company through the use of TQM to ensure that activities that are always
repeated based on data and feedback can produce positive changes that will help the Company
grows. The result will impact the vision and business mission of the Ford Motor Company.
The following processes and activities should be implemented within Ford Australia as part of
the Total Quality Management initiative:
 Management Audit- It encompasses the rule that are employed by the Company to
institute a culture of total quality management. The Audit should be well managed to take
the full inventory of the available processes (Ross, 2017).
 Determining critical success factors- TQM is intangible, and it is found within the
business culture. These factors should be used within the business TQM initiative to
ensure that performance measures are determined.
 Improving the process to meet the requirements within the Company- The Company
should be able to determine whether TQM is working well or not. Automated methods
can be used to improve the process of collecting user feedback and improving per the
requirements.
 Being data-driven- The feedback received from consumers is correct, even if it does not
favor the Company. TQM emphasizes change, and therefore, changes should be made
where necessary.
 Being relentless- The Company should always keep improving, even if the changes are
insignificant. Continuous small improvements will have increased benefits to the
Company (Maskell, Baggaley, & Grasso, 2017).

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The above activities should be followed to implement the TQM system that has high principles
within the organization so that they can influence the behavior and culture of the employees.
Concepts of TQM
The use of TQM in the Ford Motor Company should regulate people’s cultures, behavior, and
mindsets so that their results can be improved. The following are the concepts of TQM:
 Quality assurance- these are the plans and activities that are set to provide adequate
confidence that the Company's product will meet the customer requirements (Nanda,
2016).
 Quality management- this aspect determines the overall management function of
implementing quality policy. It involves planning, allocating resources, and functions of
other activities.
 Quality policy- Top managers express the quality intentions that are set to direct the
Company regarding their quality principles. These principles form the elements of the
policies and authorities set by top management.
 Quality- it is known as the whole characteristics and structures of products that determine
its ability to satisfy the needs of a customer.
Tools and techniques used when Implementing TQM
The following tools and methods can be used in Quality management to make improvements in
Ford Motor Company for automotive manufacturing: PDCA and TQM benchmarking.
Plan Do Check and Act (PDCA)
This is a repetitive four steps model that is used in businesses and companies to control and
improve their processes and products (Blank, 2020). Ford Australia uses this technique when