CIP stands for the
Continuous Improvement Process, a practice that is absolutely essential
to business success. It is a quality consciousness shared by all that
results in ongoing action to make all we do here the best. CIP is a method
for participatory, not top-down, management based on the fact that we
take more pride in our work when we have a role in decisions about it.
At AFCO, CIP also refers specifically to CIP teams, our version of the
Quality Circles Japan started in 1967 after Dr. Deming from the U.S. introduced
Statistical Quality Control. Today, quality circles go by many names worldwide
and are made a priority even in school, government, and hospital systems.
