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Your plane hasn’t even left its gate, and you already feel defeated by another harried day of travel.

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This case study provides an overview of the design, development, implementation, and subsequent management of a total quality management (TQM) system developed for the international division of the largest drilling contractor in the world, which is based in Houston.