What began in BHEL, was followed through by the CII, which got fully committed to the learning and spread of TQM and all its related world class quality practices. In the year 1984, the CII started a separate quality wing, which provided the leadership/ By organising trips to Japan under the aegis of JUSE (Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers, the apex body in Japan for all TQM related activities, and, which currently administers the Deming Award, the Deming Prize and the Japan Gold Medal for the systematic practice of quality in industry). Under the leadership of Dr Krishnamurthy, Maruti became a world class car manufacturing company. He also turned around the operations of the Trichy unit of BHEL, which, even today, is one of the most profitable PSU. What was common was that all these companies became committed to world class quality pursuit, using the TQM and related models. For example, BHEL, which was a pioneer, later switched to the EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) model of performance excellence (administered in India by the CII, in giving away the CII-EXIM Bank Business Excellence awards). The Haridwar plant of BHEL won the CII EXIM Bank prize many years back. 

Due to the pioneering work done by Dr Krishnamurthy, many Indian companies, led by such giants as Tata, Aditya Birla, BHEL, Maruti, TVS have been practicing world class quality by using methods such as ISO 9000, ISO 14000, ISO 27000, 5S, TPM, CII-EXIM, and so on. The Tata Group, for example, started adopting the Malcolm Baldrige model for performance excellence in the year 1993, under the Brand name ‘Tata Business Excellence Model’ (TBEM). This is one of the world’s best examples of how to run companies using quality management at the core of their operations and corporate strategies. Using this model, many Tata companies have won the Deming awards, Knowledge Management awards, Golden Peacock awards and so on. 

Modern quality management methods encourage an integrated approach to company management. These methods are really a loose confederation of many individual methods which developed over the fifty-year period, between 1950 and 2000. They still continue to evolve, the latest of which is at the foundation of Industry 4.0, sometimes called as Quality 4.0. The quality methods were developed to create unique competitive strengths in individual companies. For example, the Kirin Mattress company in Japan, by using the Lean Management technique, achieved the following results: