| STQC - Standards, Testing and Quality Control |
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| Summary |
| The main purpose of STQC activities is to strengthen the international competitiveness of Thailand by providing various types of support in the areas of quality management and metrology to Thai industry. STQC activities include human resource development, services, research and development and financial support. |
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| Human resource development |
| STQC has provided public and in-company training to over 8,000 persons in approximately 2,000 public and private organizations. |
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| Services |
| STQC provides ISO 9000 consultancy services that include full consultancy and spot consultancy services. Assigned personnel from STQC provide the full consultancy service through the ISO 9000 implementation process. The spot consultancy service covers services such as baseline evaluations and pre-assessments and is provided according to requests from clients. Fifty-one organizations have made use of STQC consultancy services. There are also seventy Thai SMEs implementing the Thai Foundation Quality System (TFQS) - the first entry-level system for SMEs in Thailand. STQC has established a database on quality issues that has been used 1,673 times from 1995 to 2002. |
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| Research and Development |
| STQC Research and Development activities are crucial and STQC was the first organization to initiate a research project to develop the Thai Foundation Quality System (TFQS) for SMEs. TFQS is aimed at companies that are not ready for ISO 9000 due to the complexity and the cost of the ISO standard. TFQS has been successfully implemented in nine companies. STQC currently conducts the research on the critical success factors necessary for a company to move from TFQS to ISO 9000 and Total Quality Management (TQM). There are seven companies involved in this project. STQC is also currently conducting quality management research in TQM with 5 companies. |
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| Financial support |
| STQC provides financial support for various activities. The main activity between 1997 and 1999 was to provide funding to private companies to assist with the implementation of ISO 9000. In 1997, NSTDA was the first public organization to motivate Thai industry by providing financial support - 88 companies were supported and 66 have been successfully certified. STQC also provides financial support to the Metrology Society of Thailand. In March 2000, the Center for Industrial Instrument Calibration was established at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) to provide calibration services to Thai industry. |
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| STQC collaborated with the Thailand Productivity Institute to set up a National Quality Award (NQA). In order to promote improved quality management in Thailand, STQC also serves as the secretariat office to conduct the 2nd and 3rd symposia on TQM best practices in Thailand in 2001 and 2002. |
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| The following graph shows STQC support activities from 1993 to 2002. |
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| The graph below shows STQC’s human resource development activities from 1993 to 2002. |
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