{"id":10277,"date":"2017-06-07T19:47:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T19:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiacademstg.wpengine.com\/16949academy\/?p=10277"},"modified":"2024-12-06T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:20:17","slug":"how-to-implement-the-pdca-cycle-in-the-automotive-industry-according-to-iatf-16949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advisera.com\/16949academy\/blog\/2017\/06\/07\/how-to-implement-the-pdca-cycle-in-the-automotive-industry-according-to-iatf-16949\/","title":{"rendered":"How to implement the PDCA cycle in the automotive industry according to IATF 16949"},"content":{"rendered":"

When considering the tools or approaches for improvement of your Quality Management System based on IATF 16949<\/a>, or dynamic growth and profitability, \u201cplan,\u201d \u201cdo,\u201d \u201ccheck,\u201d and \u201cact\u201d (PDCA) is a one of the most obvious options. The PDCA cycle was originally developed by Walter A. Shewhart in the 1920s, and during the \u201880s of the last century, W. Edwards Deming made it famous, even though he transformed the PDCA cycle to PDSA (plan, do, study, and act). Today, PDCA has become a cornerstone of quality management. All the emphasis on process thinking is based on the PDCA cycle, be it ISO 9001<\/a>, Six Sigma, TQM, or any other management system standard. PDCA is a closed-loop engineering application, or a feedback diagram for the quality process.<\/p>\n

PDCA stands for \u201cimprovement\u201d<\/h2>\n

Each step of the quality evolution strives toward improvement of performances. The higher the quality, the higher customer expectations become, and the increase in customer expectations fuels further product and process improvement. Faster and better communication, along with methodologies like Six Sigma, have evolved over time to further accelerate improvement.<\/p>\n

On each step of the quality evolution, leading experts left their contributions. Shewhart developed control charts, Joseph M. Juran emphasized execution or project management, Genichi Taguchi strived for performance on target, and Deming targeted variability reduction. Directly or indirectly, all of these men have improved various elements of PDCA.<\/p>\n

The PDCA cycle, being a closed loop, provides a feedback mechanism for continual quality improvement, which is similar to an engineering feedback model. The four elements of PDCA represent the four states of a process. Deming changed the PDCA model by replacing the \u201ccheck\u201d step with \u201cstudy.\u201d The \u201cstudy\u201d step implies understanding the nature of variation in the process output. But the \u201cact\u201d step has led to different interpretations. For some people, \u201cact\u201d implies standardization, whereas for others, it means improvement. Currently, \u201cact\u201d is best known as the correction of the process through corrective action and prevention from recurrence through standardization.
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