Quality of Quality Definitions–An Analysis

The standards of any product, service or an organization can be characterized by the term “quality”. In the past, there was no clear definition established to define the term “quality”. From few decades, philosophers such as Feigenbaum, Deming, Crosby, Ishikawa, Juran, Taguchi and others have put their thought to define the term quality and also accomplished tothe quality management principles.The contributions of their philosophies have enlightened the engineers and managers to focus on theperformance. Every engineering concern like manufacturing, materials, design etc., are merged and linked with the citation of quality and directing their path to achieve a good quality product or a service. Quality management has extended its bounds and grown to new heights that it has become a separate area in every field and emerged as “total quality management” which is popularly abbreviated as TQM. To understand the movement of TQM, there is a need to oversee at the philosophies of quality leaders who configured the evolution of TQM. As a tribute, this paper is devoted towards a good understanding regarding philosophies and teachings of Quality Gurus and their approach towards quality management.