Quality management

Quality management

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

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theory of constraints (TOC)

Quality management; Six Sigma

A lean management philosophy that stresses removal of constraints to increase throughput while decreasing inventory and operating expenses. TOC’s set of tools examines the entire ...

weighed voting

Quality management; Six Sigma

A way to prioritize a list of issues, ideas or attributes by assigning points to each item based on its relative importance.

American standard code for information interchange (ASCII)

Quality management; Six Sigma

Basic computer characters accepted by all American machines and many foreign ones.

system kaizen

Quality management; Six Sigma

Improvement aimed at an entire value stream.

lean

Quality management; Six Sigma

Producing the maximum sellable products or services at the lowest operational cost while optimizing inventory levels.

physical transformation task

Quality management; Six Sigma

Taking a specific product from raw materials to a finished product delivered to the customer.

first in, first out (FIFO)

Quality management; Six Sigma

Use of material produced by one process in the same order by the next process. A FIFO queue is filled by the supplying process and emptied by the customer process. When a FIFO ...