Name: QUALITY MANAGEMENT MID TERM EXAM Question You are a project management consultant assigned to a small manufacturing firm that has been experiencing a myriad of problems. After conducting interviews and fact-finding with key managers‚ you have observed the following: •Company revenues and profits have fallen dramatically over the previous 12 months‚ along with a drop in market share •Customer complaints have reached an all time high •Employee morale is at an all time low •The
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Quality awards What are quality awards? Quality awards are prizes awarded for some aspect of quality performance which has been demonstrated to an organisation which normally has no responsibility for the recipient’s performance. To whom are the awards presented? Awards are offered to either individuals or organisations‚ depending on the type of award. What do the awards measure? All quality awards are made on the basis of an assessment of the applicant’s performance against certain criteria
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Quality Management and Six Sigma Learning Objectives – Chapters 1-5‚ 11 Midterm Exam Ch 1 – Introduction to Quality Describe the evolution of quality from the early 20th century through the Japanese post-World War II‚ to the “Quality revolution” in the U.S. and elsewhere in the 1980’s through the early 21st Century. Identify the underlying forces to the ‘quality revolution’. Explain the role of the quality ‘gurus’ including Walter Shewhart‚ Joseph Juran‚ W. Edwards Deming Early Twentieth Century
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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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Overcoming The Barriers In Implementing TQM and Sustaining The Success Through Continuous Quality Improvement – Deming’s 14 Points Revisited Dr. R. Jagadeesh Abstract Total Quality Management (TQM) became a popular buzzword during the last three decades and is considered to be the globally accepted success formula across the organizations. A number of success stories have been well documented in literature and widely circulated to spread the spirit and practice of TQM. While many organizations
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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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the Mercedes-Benz quality system The main purpose of this essay is to analyzed and discussed the Mercedes-Benz quality system. We hope that this essay will merit your approval. Yours sincerely Dai Wei Table of contents 1. Executive summary 2. Introduction 3. Literature review 4. Quality management system 5. Mercedes-Benz mission 6. Mercedes-Benz strategic objective 7. Human Resource Management in quality system 8. Cost in quality system 9. Customer
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Seven Basic Management Tools "The Old Seven." "The First Seven." "The Basic Seven." Quality pros have many names for these seven basic tools of quality‚ first emphasized by Kaoru Ishikawa‚ a professor of engineering at Tokyo University and the father of “quality circles.” Start your quality journey by mastering these tools‚ and you ’ll have a name for them too: "indispensable." 1. Cause-and-effect diagram (also called Ishikawa or fishbone chart): Identifies many possible causes for
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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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Ideal Citizen in the Superhero Movies The 2012 summer movie season is coming to an end and guesses who the winner is? Ding! Superhero movies! Quite a lot of them shattered box-office records. Just in U.S. theaters‚ “Marvel’s The Avengers" ($618 million)‚ "The Dark Knight Rises" ($410 million) and "The Amazing Spider-Man" ($257 million) were the top three highest-grossing movies‚ lumping $1.3 billion together. It has been noticed that there have been around 50 superhero movies since 2002 and it
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