Is (or was) North America behind the Quality Assurance Management efforts and related principals in relationship to other countries and continents ? (i.e.:Europe and South America)
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008It seems to me that North America is about 10 years behind several other countries in regards the effective use of quality practices, tools and principals like 5S, Kaizen, ISO, TQM, DOE, TPM, you name it .
Several training sessions and consulting work that I am performing today in Canada and USA were sessions and activities that I went through in Brazil in the 80’s and 90’s.
At that time we were forced to keep the standards higher than North American market to allow us to be competitive . At the same token the North American market didn’t seem to find necessary to maintain the same level (generally speaking) to maintain their market share.
After 12 years living in Canada, this is only an observation based on my past professional experience.
I am not saying that I am right or wrong.
But ………. whats your take on it ?
Edison Reis
www.qualityassurancemanagement.com