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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Factors Affecting Product Quality in the Software Development Industry of Sri Lanka Sahan Jayawarna A.T. Fonseka Abstract The software development industry of Sri Lanka has grown rapidly during recent years. However‚ the quality of software products has become a critical issue as shown in the increase in software defects and associated solutions for those problems. This study aimed at understanding the critical factors underlying software product quality. It was based on a survey of ten
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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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Value Engineering (VE): Value Engineering is an organized approach for identification and elimination of unnecessary cost. • QIP‚ QC & Benchmarking: Tata Steel adopted Juran Trilogy concept for undertaking Quality Improvement Projects (QIP). Quality Circles (QC) are small group activities which involves first-line employees who continually control and improve the quality of their work‚ products and services. Benchmarking is a process of exploring for best practices and performances across the
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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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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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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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Everyone has had experiences of poor quality when dealing with business organizations. These experiences might involve an airline that has lost a passenger’s luggage‚ a dry cleaner that has left clothes wrinkled or stained‚ poor course offerings and scheduling at your college‚ a purchased product that is damaged or broken‚ or a pizza delivery service that is often late or delivers the wrong order. The experience of poor quality is exacerbated when employees of the company either are
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Systems Engineering Section : 1 Introduction to Systems Engineering HIAST Aleppo COURSE Systems Engineering Release 1.0 (2014) Dr. Eng. L. Alhomsi Ms. Eng. M. Aoad ﻫﻨﺪﺳﺔ ﺍﻟﻨﻈﻢ 1 Course : Systems Engineering Section : 1 Introduction to Systems Engineering HIAST Aleppo Table of contents •Section 1 : Introduction To Systems Engineering •Section 4 : Systems Engineering Process (SEP) • Systems Engineering (SE) Definition • Requirements Analysis • Issues of Systems Engineering • Functional
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