Quality at Acoustafoam.
Acoustafoam Limited are totally committed to quality and improving our certification in the first few months of 2016. We are introducing a Total management system upgrade to meet ISO 9001:2015 standard.
Some of the key points we are improving are as follows:
- Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and to stay in business, and to provide jobs.
- Adopt the new philosophy. We are in a new economic age. Western management must awaken to the challenge, must learn their responsibilities, and take on leadership for change.
- Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.
- Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus, constantly decrease costs.
- Institute training on the job.
- Institute leadership. The aim of supervision should be to help people, machines and gadgets to do a better job. Supervision of management is in need of an overhaul, as well as supervision of production workers.
- Drive out fear, so that everyone may work effectively for the company.
- Break down barriers between departments. People in research, design, sales and production must work as a team, to foresee problems of production and in use, that may be encountered with the product or service.
- Remove barriers that rob the hourly worker of his right to pride of workmanship. The responsibility of supervisors must change from sheer numbers to quality.
- Institute a vigorous program of education and self-improvement.
- Put everybody in the company to work to accomplish the transformation. The transformation is everybody’s job.
