Quality |
Avon’s commitment to continuous improvement extends to every area of the business. International quality standards such as ISO14001, the ISO9000 Series and TS 16949 are routinely sought and won, full details of which are held in the Group Policy Statement
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In addition, other improvement projects are ongoing worldwide. They are:
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Breakthrough |
Where every employee is encouraged to find improvements through imagination and change
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Six Sigma |
Gaining improved financial performance by delivering zero defects to external customers and at the same time improving yield (reducing waste and rejects) of our internal processes to the world class level of 99.99966% (no more than 3.4 defects per million).
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Lean Manufacturing |
Reducing all forms of non value adding deadly process wastes and enhancing the value flow for both materials and information
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Kaizen |
Small step, low cost (or no cost) improvements achieved by the actions of people at the workplace.
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QCDISME |
The Automotive sector’s well known “QCD” Model has been developed further into QCDISME where production processes are examined in relation to Quality, Cost, Delivery, Improvements, Safety, Morale and the Environment encouraging commitment from every employee towards continuous improvement.
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