The Quality Gurus The six Quality Gurus I have chosen to write about are Dr. Joseph Juran‚ Dr. W. Edwards Deming‚ Philip Crosby‚ Dr. Shigeo Shingo‚ Dr. Genichi Taguchi and Dr. Kaora Ishikawa. All of these people have made significant contributions to improving businesses‚ healthcare organizations‚ governments and countless other organizations. A guru is a good‚ wise person and a teacher above all else. This is coupled with these people with an approach to quality in business and life that has made
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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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A REPORT ON QUALITY ASSURANCE IN PHARMACEUTICALS BY Shikher Gupta 2009A5PS626P AT HETERO DRUGS LTD. A Practice –II station of BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE‚ PILANI A REPORT ON QUALITY ASSURANCE IN PHARMACEUTICALS BY Shikher Gupta 2009A5PS626P B.Pharmacy(Hons.) Prepared in partial fulfillment of the Practice School II Course AT HETERO DRUGS LTD. A Practice School – II station of BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE‚ PILANI SEPTEMBER‚ 2012 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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on behalf of owners‚ involving resources and performance in external environments.[1] It entails specifying the organization’s mission‚ vision and objectives‚ developing policies and plans‚ often in terms of projects and programs‚ which are designed to achieve these objectives‚ and then allocating resources to implement the policies and plans‚ projects and programs. A balanced scorecard is often used to evaluate the overall performance of the business and its progress towards objectives. Recent studies
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FOOD QUALITY Quality * Relates to excellent product or services that fulfills or exceeds our expectations Food Quality * Includes all attributes that influence product’s value to the consumers. This includes‚ Negative attributes (e.g.spoilage‚ contamination with filth‚ discoloration‚ off odors & flavors; Positive attributes (e.g. origin‚ color‚ flavor‚ texture and processing method used -Food Quality is a term which may refer to several things: ♣ the extent to which food contains
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Date: 9/19/2012 Re: QUALITY MANAGEMENT - Cost-Quality Relationship There are three types of costs when quality considerations are made: Appraisal Costs‚ Prevention Costs‚ and Failure Costs. These costs are affiliated with the efforts of process improvement and are also known as quality costs or cost of quality. Appraisal costs are associated with measuring‚ evaluating or auditing products and services to satisfy quality and performance requirements set by the
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The Pareto chart would find the most likely cause and tell the organization where to focus its efforts. 2. Describe the origin and use of cause-and-effect diagrams. Cause and effect diagrams originated in 1968 by Dr. Kaoru a noted Japanese quality expert. These diagrams are often called the Ishikawa or fishbone diagrams‚ and are used in order to show the causes of a specific event. Cause and effect diagrams are a way of visualizing how a variety of factors associated with a process affect
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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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MANAGEMENT OF QUALITY Introduction Quality refers to the ability of a product or service to consistently meet or exceed customer requirements or expectations. Different customers will have different requirements‚ so a working definition of quality is customer-dependent. In order to rebuild its economy after the Second World War‚ Japan focused on quality improvement‚ making it a national imperative. This took place during a time when quality was not uppermost in the minds of business organizations
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challenging task to improve product quality and service quality.Quality is the cornerstone of survival for a company. The history of numerous successful companies show that quality is also the dominant factor‚ especially for the Japanese company. To combat with the competition of North American’s company‚ quality become the most effective weapon for them to gain a remarkable market place in global. More and more companies are finding it necessary to to achieve high quality‚ and consider it a major strategy
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