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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wide quality operations. Deming-Trained under Walter A Shewhart (father of SPC). Developed sampling techniques for the Bureau of Census. Became a key adviser to Japan in 1946. Juran-Trained under Walter A Shewhart (father of SPC). Became a key adviser to Japan in 1954. Joiner-Trained under W Edward Deming. Created consulting firm‚ Joiner Associates. Conway-Elected CEO of Nashua Corp 1979. First US Executive to hire Dr. Deming as a consultant in 1979. Formed consulting firm‚ Conway Quality‚ Inc
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Heidi Hester What qualities should a good parent possess? What qualities does a good parent possess? That’s a hard question. Everyone has their own definition of what a parent should be. Some parents think that to be a good parent they need to immersed in religion‚ adding another set of rules on top of the ones already set in place by them. Others think that being a good parent simply means only taking care of the child’s immediate needs. While I didn’t grow up with the best parents in the
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result‚ a manager of a multicultural team must be able to understand culturally diverse backgrounds‚ manage conflicts constructively‚ and comprehend different strategies to handle sensitive situations. The research begins by reviewing literature on culture‚ team performance and conflict. A survey was performed on 67 individuals from various cultural backgrounds‚ to analyze their attitudes towards multicultural teams and their managers. A second questionnaire was conducted on 18 managers from an
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an everyday term such as ratchet become so twisted to the point where it’s new meaning no longer resembles it’s old one? As it once was mainly known as a mechanical tool used to repair clocks and roller coasters‚ it now has a entirely different definition. Although words may have an established meaning‚ as time goes by‚ that meaning may change‚ perhaps into something that is completely irrelevant. The Rise of the Ratchet As originally defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a ‘hunting dog’
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Literature has many meanings but to me when I hear the word literature I think of large tomes of words and stories that have become classics over time however this is only one definition of literature. Literature comes from that Latin word littera‚ that directly translated means letter‚ thus supporting the idea that literature is written. This view however leaves out the idea that there can be oral literature as well from which many of our stories and books come from. The main form of literature
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define what beauty truly is. If we cannot agree on what traits define beauty‚ then how can a woman discover their own? The problem is that beauty is in the eye of the beholder‚ and this is never more true than seen over time and between different cultures. Over time‚ our concept of beauty seems to fluctuate. Sometimes favoring rather heavy individuals and at other times very skinny ones.The beauty concept on this way are often corresponding to the way looks correlate with wealth. For example‚ during
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leads that there will be hundreds of definition of happiness for everyone. It is likely that some people have difficulties to discover the abstract question without using other tools to help. To point out the answers of what is the happiness‚ the movie of the Pursuit of Happiness‚ the speech of Sam Burns‚ a song and an article about painting happiness are all giving their answers. Although all of them discuss the same theme about happiness‚ the different definitions of happiness can be known when audiences
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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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Industrialisation definitions ² The process where people move from rural areas (farms) towns & cities which results in the town populations growth. ^urbanisation ² The mechanisation of labour (machine instead of men) used to mass produce items the movement of people to cities & improved transport leading to greater wealth and population ^industrilasation ² ^whereworker band toether to have more power to stand up for their right in the workplace ^trade uninimsn ² And econimic system
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