The Flemish Quality Management Center (Dutch: Vlaams Centrum voor Kwaliteitszorg) (VCK) is a Flemish

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

 non-profit organization, which was founded on 28 September 1985. The organization wants to inspire and support Flemish companies to work and develop their capabilities in a competitive and efficient way, and inspired by the principles of total quality management

Total Quality Management

Total quality management or TQM is an integrative philosophy of management for continuously improving the quality of products and processes....

 (TQM). The aim of the organization is to achieve generalized knowledge and use of good management practices, innovation

Innovation

Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society...

 and quality awareness.

See also

• Science and technology in Flanders
  Science and technology in Flanders
  Science and technology in Flanders, the northern region of Belgium , is well developed with the presence of several universities and research institutes...
  
  
• European Foundation for Quality Management
• Federation of Belgian Enterprises
  Federation of Belgian Enterprises
  The Federation of Enterprises in Belgium is the only Belgian non-profit organization representing companies in all three regions of Belgium. Its members, the different Belgian sectorial employers' organizations, represent companies in key industrial and service sectors. All in all, it represents...
  
  
• Agoria
  Agoria
  Agoria is Belgium's largest employers' organisation and trade association. The companies represented by Agoria are active in 13 branches of the technology industry: aerospace, automotive, construction products, contracting & maintenance, electrical engineering, industrial automation, ICT,...
  
  
• Operations management
  Operations management
  Operations management is an area of management concerned with overseeing, designing, and redesigning business operations in the production of goods and/or services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as little resources as needed, and...
  
  
• GxP
  GxP
  GxP is a general term for Good Practice quality guidelines and regulations. These guidelines are used in many fields, including the pharmaceutical and food industries....
  
  
• ISO 9000
  ISO 9000
  The ISO 9000 family of standards relates to quality management systems and is designed to help organizations ensure they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders . The standards are published by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, and available through National...
  
  
• American Society for Quality
  American Society for Quality
  American Society for Quality , formerly known as American Society for Quality Control , is a knowledge-based global community of quality control experts, with nearly 85,000 members dedicated to the promotion and advancement of quality tools, principles, and practices in their workplaces and in...
  
  (ASQ).