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With a unique systems-thinking perspective, the Iowa Quality Center is one of the state’s premiere resources for quality and performance excellence. The center offers a wealth of resources to support your continuous improvement journey.

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Total Production System

TPS organizes manufacturing and logistics for the automobile manufacturer, including interaction with suppliers and customers.

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Systems Thinking

A system is an organized collection of parts (or subsystems) that are highly integrated to accomplish an overall goal. The system has various inputs, which go through certain processes to produce certain outputs, which together, accomplish the overall desired goal for the system. So a system is usually made up of many smaller systems, or subsystems. For example, an organization is made up of many administrative and management functions, products, services, groups and individuals. If one part of the system is changed, the nature of the overall system is often changed, as well. A high-functioning system continually exchanges feedback among its various parts to ensure that they remain closely aligned and focused on achieving the goal of the system. If any of the parts or activities in the system seems weakened or misaligned, the system makes necessary adjustments to more effectively achieve its goals.

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