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Quality management

Relating to the processes or means used to achieve product and service quality.

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American Society for Quality Control (ASQC)

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Name of ASQ from 1946 through the middle of 1997, when the name was changed to ASQ.

batch Lot

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A definite quantity of some product manufactured under conditions of production that are considered uniform.

error detection

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A hybrid form of error proofing. It means a bad part can be made but will be caught immediately, and corrective action will be taken to prevent another bad part from being ...

American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI)

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Released for the first time in October 1994, an economic indicator and cross industry measure of the satisfaction of U.S. household customers with the quality of the goods and ...

cascading

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The continuing flow of the quality message down to, not through, the next level of supervision until it reaches all workers.

imagineering

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Developing in the mind’s eye a process without waste.

failure cost

Quality management; Six Sigma

The cost resulting from the occurrence of defects. One element of cost of quality or cost of poor quality.