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Total Quality Management Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Total Quality Management via distance learning
The continuous search for excellency and quality is crucial to yield better products, superior services, and successful business. This program explores the principles of leadership, strategic planning, marketing, information technology, human resources, process management, and business results. It uses an integrated systems approach to achieve continuous improvement and reviews the application of total quality management to diverse organizations such as manufacturing, service, small business, government, health care, etc.
Academic Supervisor : Ronald D. Fite
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Total Quality Management Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Total Quality Management.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Industrial Engineering - Industrial Production - Logistics - Maintenance Engineering Management - Occupational Safety & Health - Operations Management - Petroleum & Natural Gas Production - Process Instrumentation Technology - Project Engineering Management - R & D Research & Development - Robotics & Automation .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Total Quality Management Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Total Quality Management via distance learning = 42 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Total Quality Management Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Total Quality Management via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Industrial Production.
Master's Degree - Total Quality Management Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Total Quality Management via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Industrial Production. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Total Quality Management Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Total Quality Management via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Industrial Production. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
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Total Quality Management Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Total Quality - TQ
This course covers the development of quality philosophies and principles to present today practices of ISO and other international quality standards for performance excellence. It integrates key business values, processes, and requirements within a results-oriented framework.
Academic Supervisor: Ronald D. Fite
Organizational Administration
The course surveys the field of organizational theory, including the historical underpinnings of the field, the nature of bureaucracy, evolving organizational structures and design, the organization-environment interface, multiple stakeholders, and power and influence in the emerging organization.
Academic Supervisor: John U. Kitoko
Measuring Customer Satisfaction
This course reviews the tools and techniques used for measuring customer satisfaction. It covers how to plan, implement, and get results from a customer service strategy. It reviews methods of collecting data, such as surveys and focus groups, as well as the tools for analyzing and displaying data.
Academic Supervisor: Maria Smetanina
Supplier Quality Management
This course reviews supplier quality assurance principles and techniques while stressing on the methods to obtain quality products and services from suppliers. It discusses supplier evaluation and selection, communication of quality requirements, legal aspects, performance measurements, and solving supplied item quality problems.
Academic Supervisor: Ronald D. Fite
Six Sigma Methods
This course provides a study of the management and technical aspects of Six Sigma methods. It reviews the principles and practical aspects of leadership, creativity, training, customer expectations, performance metrics, six sigma project management, measurement, problem solving tools, and statistical methods.
Academic Supervisor: Ronald D. Fite
Logistics
This program addresses today's complexity of logistics. Logistics is the management of the flow of goods, information, and other resources between the points of origin and consumption. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, packaging, and occasionally security.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Technological Management
This course provides the technical savvy and business skills for planning, manufacturing, and engineering. It offers an interdisciplinary examination of the problems encountered in integrating technology and innovation into processes and products; evaluating tangible and intangible aspects of new technology adoption; management of research and development; functional integration of marketing and operations; and the critical role that technology plays in achieving top management objectives.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Management Information Systems
This course analyzes information systems and their role in organizations. It focuses on the management of information resources for optimum performance. It reviews hardware, software, data storage, and telecommunication technologies, and considers the issues of emerging technologies, social and ethical concerns, security, and control. It explains the best use of computers to minimize cost and optimize results.
Academic Supervisor: Javier Fernandez Salgado
Total Quality Control
This course studies the quality management system of planning to meet customer needs, organizing resources, and involving employees in continuous improvement. It examines the quality control tools and philosophies that contribute to outgoing quality in the workplace. It finally covers strategic planning and process control management from different perspectives.
Academic Supervisor: Ronald D. Fite
Process Improvement Management
This course focuses on the technical and teaming skills necessary to achieve quality-processes. Topics include: understanding quality, the improvement cycle, quality tools, eliminating complexity from work, and implementing quality in processes, activities, and organizations. It also covers statistical process control and methods employed in the assurance of product conformance to quality specifications. It provides an analytical approach to solving problems in quality engineering process design and costs.
Academic Supervisor: Ronald D. Fite
Operations Management
This course provides an analytical approach to solving problems in production and operations management. It examines quantitative methods for designing and analyzing manufacturing operations, simulation of manufacturing operations, and recent issues in manufacturing including just-in-time production, synchronous manufacturing, and agile manufacturing. It also covers current competitiveness-enhancing techniques like continuous improvement, benchmarking, and business process re-engineering.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Human Resources Management
This course examines the cost effectiveness of human resources programs in terms of culture diversity, work force management, benefits, budgets, and financial planning. It explores how to effectively utilize human resources in organizations. Topics include: human resources information systems, employee protection, management succession, and human resources strategic planning.
Academic Supervisor: Charles R. Nichols
Market Profitability Analysis
This course explores the tools for market profitability analysis. It measures the net profit earned by undertaking business in a particular market. Profitability is the most significant measure to evaluate the success of any business. For a business to be profitable and successful in the long term, shareholders and managers need to identify the right strategic path. Understanding the profitability of significant customers or markets is key for a sustainable and successful future.
Academic Supervisor: Kao Kveng Hong
Total Quality Management
This course discusses how quality can be achieved in all areas of an organization, including design, production, marketing, customer services, and personnel. It examines how firms create value through quality and how decisions in the areas of capacity, facilities, technology, vertical integration, workforce, quality, production planning, materials control, and organization influence a firm's ability to add value.
Academic Supervisor: Ronald D. Fite
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Total Quality Management Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
ABCE - Associação Brasileira de Consultores de Engenharia
ABEMEC - Associação de Engenharia Mecânica e Industrial
ACE - Association for Consultancy and Engineering
AEC - Asociación Española para la Calidad
AFM - Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
ALTEC - Asociación Latino-Iberoamericana de Gestión Tecnológica y de la Innovación
AMCSTI - Réseau des Acteurs des Cultures Scientifique, Technique et Industrielle
AMT - Association for Manufacturing Technology
ASQ - American Society for Quality
BEMA - British Engineering Manufacturers Association
EIA - Engineering Industries Association
FIM - Fédération des Industries Mécaniques
GAMBICA - Association for Instrumentation, Control, Automation and Laboratory Technology
IEEE TEMS - Technology and Engineering Management Society
NAM - National Association of Manufacturers
SME - Society of Manufacturing Engineers
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Admission requirements - Total Quality Management
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Total Quality Management Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
Recognition - Total Quality Management Online via distance learning
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Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Total Quality Management Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
