Quality management

Quality management

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

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design record

Quality management; Six Sigma

Engineering requirements, typically contained in various formats; examples include engineering drawings, math data and referenced specifications. Designing in quality versus ...

American National Standards Institute-American Society for Quality (ANSI-ASQ)

Quality management; Six Sigma

Organization that accredits certification bodies for ISO 9001 quality management systems, ISO 14001 environmental management systems and other industry specific requirements.

autonomation

Quality management; Six Sigma

A form of automation in which machinery automatically inspects each item after producing it and ceases production and notifies humans if a defect is detected. Toyota expanded the ...

critical processes

Quality management; Six Sigma

Processes that present serious potential dangers to human life, health and the environment or that risk the loss of significant sums of money or customers.

Six Sigma

Quality management; Six Sigma

A method that provides organizations tools to improve the capability of their business processes. This increase in performance and decrease in process variation lead to defect ...

14 points

Quality management; Six Sigma

W. Edwards Deming’s 14 management practices to help companies increase their quality and productivity: 1. create constancy of purpose for improving products and services; 2. adopt ...

reduced inspection

Quality management; Six Sigma

Inspection in accordance with a sampling plan requiring smaller sample sizes than those used in normal inspection. Reduced inspection is used in some inspection systems as an ...