Questions On The Quality Management Essay
4.729 Quality Management
Name: Kamaljeet Kaur Tamber
Student ID: 20152437
Stream: 148
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Word Count: 1642 (Excluding references and table of contents)
Lecturer: Ray Ninow
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Table of Content:
1.0Executive Summary...............................................................3
2.0Introduction.........................................................................3
3.0NZ Standards for Steel Mesh.....................................................5
4.0Reasons and Causes for the occurring problems of Steel Mesh.............5
5.0Impact on the companies..........................................................5
6.0Home Building regulations in New Zealand....................................6
7.0Action Taken........................................................................6
8.0Relevant Quality Management Concept.........................................7
9.0Conclusion...........................................................................8
10.0References...........................................................................9
1.0 Executive Summary
This essay outlines the issue that recently took place in New Zealand with the
supplies of low quality seismic reinforcing mesh that did not comply the New
Zealand Standards. We will focus on Steel and Tube Company and Euro Corporation
in this essay. After the earthquakes at Canterbury region in 2011 the Commerce
Commission was solemn with the safety and regulation compliance for building
sector and hence increased the compliance elongation level to 10 % of ductility of
the steel mesh used in the building sector. During the first quarter of 2016 the
Commission found a break through with the above mentioned 2 companies found
guilty of non compliance of NZ standards for the steel mesh