QUALITY CIRCLES: CONCEPT AND APPLICATIONS Quality circles were first developed in the 1960s by a man named Kaoru Ishikawa in Japan. The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) were the ones who paid for the research that put the theories about behavior science and quality control together. A quality circle is a participatory management technique that enlists the help of employees in solving problems related to their own jobs. Circles are formed of employees working together in an
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Quality of Water [Type the document subtitle] 1/8/2014 [Type the company name] Cacey Shrewsberry Quality of Water Cacey Shrewsberry January 8‚ 2014 How are water quality standards determined? Water quality is determined by three major classes that are biological‚ chemical‚ and physical. The biological class has to do with the organisms that are living in the water and how many organisms that there are. Some of the organisms that live in the water have certain physical and chemical
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MANAGEMENT OF QUALITY Quality cannot be ignored; every purchasing decision is based on price and quality What is Quality? It’s the ability of a product or service to consistently meet or exceed customer expectations. Slogans related to quality: * Talk is cheap but recalls are not. * There is nothing is more frustrating than working hard and then knowing that what you did‚ didn’t work out. * People want to do good job‚ and we have to enable them. To meet or exceed customer expectations
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Managing Cost of Quality: Insight into Industry Practice Andrea Schiffauerova *‚ Vince Thomson ** * École Polytechnique de Montréal‚ Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering‚ Montreal ** Department of Mechanical Engineering‚ McGill University‚ Montreal‚ Canada Article Reference: Schiffauerova‚ A. and Thomson‚ V.‚ “Managing cost of quality: Insight into industry practice”‚ The TQM Magazine‚ 2006 Abstract This paper reports on the study of the quality costing practices at four large
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Cost of Quality (COQ) "The cost of quality." It’s a term that’s widely used – and widely misunderstood. The "cost of quality" isn’t the price of creating a quality product or service. It’s the cost of NOT creating a quality product or service. Every time work is redone‚ the cost of quality increases. Obvious examples include: The reworking of a manufactured item. The retesting of an assembly. The rebuilding of a tool. The correction of a bank statement. The reworking of a service‚ such as
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Quality Initiatives Aiming for 120% product quality “We have to aim for 120% product quality. If 99% of the products we make are perfect‚ that would seem like a pretty good record. However‚ the customers who become the owners of the remaining 1% will surely consider their products 100% defective. It is unacceptable that even one customer in a thousand–even one customer in ten thousand–should receive a defective product. That’s why we have to aim for 120%.” When founder Soichiro Honda said this
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COMPARING THREE QUALITY MANAGEMENT GURUS W. Edwards Deming Joseph M. Juran Philip B. Crosby Prepared by: Abdelatif Hegazy Director Quality TECOM Investments Tel: +971 4 3913239 Fax: +971 4 3918777 Mobile: +971 50 4670973 A member of DUBAI HOLDING www.dubaiholding.com FOREWORD Many organizations worldwide are focusing today on quality to restore their competitive
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[pic] KU – AEU EXECUTIVE BACHELOR IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Awarded by the Asia E University Assignment MANAGING QUALITY Name of student : VISHNU CHOW MING YEW Facilitator : MR. IR. GIAN SINGH KU Centre : Index no : KG 798 Question no : 1 Word count : 2‚968 Words Submission date : 18TH MAY 2013 This page is intentionally left blank Table of Contents
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Quality Assurance Quality assurance is based on setting agreed quality standards at all stages in the production of a good or service in order to ensure that customers’ satisfaction is achieved. It does not just focus on the finished product. This approach often involves self-checking by workers of their own output against these agreed quality standards. The key differences between the two methods are that‚ quality assurance: a. puts much more emphasis on prevention of poor quality by designing
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Quality control paper Quality control is a critical concept in every industry and profession. The survival of your job and of your company depends on your ability to produce a quality product or service. For most people‚ quality is associated with the idea of a product or service that’s well done‚ looks good‚ and does its job well. Quality product is one that lasts‚ holds up well under use‚ and doesn’t require constant repair. A quality product or service should meet a high standard in many areas
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