Evolution of Construction Quality: From Guilds to Total Quality Management, Lecture notes of Quality Management

An historical overview of construction quality management, from the role of guilds in medieval europe to the birth of total quality in the post-world war ii era. Various periods and production methods, including craftsmanship, the factory system, and statistical quality control.

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Dr.-Ing Abdur Rehman Nasir
Assistant Professor of Construction Engineering and Management
NIT (SCEE), NUST H-12, Islamabad
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Construction Quality and Productivity Management
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Lecture No. 03
Dr.-Ing Abdur Rehman Nasir
Assistant Professor
Department of CE&M
NIT (SCEE), NUST H-12, Islamabad
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Dr.-Ing Abdur Rehman Nasir

Assistant Professor of Construction Engineering and Management 27.02. 1

Construction Quality and Productivity Management

TITELMASTERFORMAT DURCH KLICKEN BEARBEITEN

Lecture No. 03

Dr.-Ing Abdur Rehman Nasir

Assistant Professor

Department of CE&M

NIT (SCEE), NUST H-12, Islamabad

Dr.-Ing Abdur Rehman Nasir

Assistant Professor of Construction Engineering and Management 27.02. 2

Construction Quality and Productivity Management

Content

 Evolution of Quality

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Watch the video and write three points

that come to your mind

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Evolution of Quality

1200 - 1799

Guilds of

Medieval Europe

1800 - 1899

Product

Orientation

1900 - 1940

Process

Orientation

1941 - 1945

Quality during

World War II

1946 - Present

Birth of Total

Quality

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Product Orientation

(1800-1899)

  • US quality practices in the 1800s were shaped by several

different production methods:

  • Craftsmanship
  • The Factory System
  • The Taylor System

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Craftsmanship

  • Early 19

th

century- the approach tended to follow the

craftsmanship model in the European countries

  • Masters maintained a form of quality control by inspecting

goods before sale

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The Taylor System

  • In the late 19

th

century US broke from European tradition and adopted a

new management approach by Taylor

  • Taylor’s goal was to increase productivity without increasing the no. of

skilled craftsmen

  • He achieved this by assigning factory planning to specialized engineers

and using displaced workers and supervisors to execute the engineers

plans

  • This new approach led to remarkable rises in productivity
  • BUT …

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  • Workers once again stripped of their dwindling power and the

new emphasis was on productivity which had an adverse effect

on quality

The Taylor System

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Construction Quality and Productivity Management

Process Orientation

(1900-1940)

  • Beginning of the 20

th

century marked the inclusion of processes

in quality practices

  • Shewhart recognized that industrial processes yield data.
  • He determined that this data can be analyzed using statistical

techniques to see if a process is stable or “in control” or if is

being affected by special causes that should be fixed.

  • His concepts are referred to as “Statistical Quality Control”

(SQC)

  • Primary Focus: Product Inspection & SQC

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Quality during World War II

(1941-1945)

  • After World War II had started, US passed legislation to help gear the

civilian economy to military production

  • At that time contracts were awarded to manufacturers who submitted

the lowest bid. Products were inspected upon delivery

  • The armed forces inspected virtually every unit of product to ensure that

it was safe for operation

  • To ease this problem, the armed forces began to utilize sampling

inspection to replace unit-by-unit inspection

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Birth of Total Quality

(1946-Present)

  • After World War II, major Japanese manufacturers converted

from producing military goods for internal use to civilian goods

for trade

  • Poor response from the world market
  • Japan started exploring new ways of thinking about quality

(Deming and Juran)

  • Rather than relying purely on product inspection, total quality

focused on improving all organizational processes through the

people who used them

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  • Juran, at a conference of the European organization for quality

control in Sweden made the following prediction

“The Japanese are headed for world quality leadership and will

attain it in the next two decades because no one else is moving

at the same pace”

Birth of Total Quality

(1946-Present)