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Quality management
Relating to the processes or means used to achieve product and service quality.
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quality tool
Quality management; Six Sigma
An instrument or technique to support and improve the activities of process quality management and improvement.
continuous sampling plan
Quality management; Six Sigma
In acceptance sampling, a plan, intended for application to a continuous flow of individual units of product, that involves acceptance and rejection on a unit-byunit basis and ...
validation
Quality management; Six Sigma
The act of confirming a product or service meets the requirements for which it was intended.
failure mode analysis (FMA)
Quality management; Six Sigma
A procedure to determine which malfunction symptoms appear immediately before or after a failure of a critical parameter in a system. After all possible causes are listed for each ...
sample standard deviation chart (S chart)
Quality management; Six Sigma
A control chart in which the subgroup standard deviation, s, is used to evaluate the stability of the variability within a process.
rejection number
Quality management; Six Sigma
The smallest number of defectives (or defects) in the sample or samples under consideration that will require rejection of the lot.
intervention
Quality management; Six Sigma
The action of a team facilitator when interrupting a discussion to state observations about group dynamics or the team process.
Sub-categories
- Capability maturity model integration (220)
- ISO standards (74217)
- Six Sigma (23021)