ch 7: understanding quality Flashcards
ability of a product or service to consistently meet or exceed customer requirements or expectations.
quality
However, different customers will have different requirements, so a working definition of quality is?
customer-dependent
For a decade or so, quality was an important focal point in business. But after a while, the emphasis on quality began to fade, and quality took a backseat to other concerns. However, there has been an upsurge recently in the need for attention to quality. Much of this has been driven by recent experience with?
costs and adverse publicity associated with wide-ranging recalls that have included automobiles, ground meat, toys, produce, dog food, and pharmaceuticals.
Focuses on customer satisfaction – the only guarantee for long term survival assured “quality” in every process is the objective of this
TQM
A scientific, systematic, companywide activity “in which a company is devoted to customers through its products and services.
TQM
usefulness, reliability, safety
d. Quality –
Consumers may focus on the specification quality of a product/service, or?
how it compares to competitors in the marketplace
Quality in business, engineering and manufacturing has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority or superiority of something; it is also defined as?
“fitness for purpose”
Quality is sometimes defined as “meeting the?
“meeting the? requirements of the customer.”
describes any systematic process for ensuring quality during the successive steps in developing a product or service.
quality assurance
is a standard for ensuring that a company’s quality assurance system follows best industry practices.
ISO 9000
has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority or superiority of something; it is also defined as “fitness for purpose”. Consumers may focus on the specification quality of a product/service, or how it compares to competitors in the marketplace
Quality in business, engineering and manufacturing
There are five aspects of quality in a business context
(enumerate)
a. Producing
b. Checking
c. Quality Control
d. Quality Management
e. Quality Assurance
(PC3Q)
providing something.
a. Producing -
confirming that something has been done correctly.
b. Checking -
controlling a process to ensure that the outcomes are predictable.
c. Quality Control -
directing an organization so that it optimizes its performance through analysis and improvement.
d. Quality Management –
obtaining confidence that a product or service will be satisfactory. (Normally performed by a purchaser)
e. Quality Assurance –
achieve planned results with least resources
c. Effective and efficient –
Quality has many meanings – many of them are subjective, such as the term?
“excellent” or “outstanding” quality.
In the quality management field, quality has a more specific meaning. “According to ISO 9001:2008, quality is defined as
“the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfils requirements”.
The very favorable experience of the client of a business when they have received a good or service that significantly surpasses what they had initially anticipated.
Quality
A marketing department can use instances of customer delight to a company’s advantage by requesting referrals and obtaining testimonials from delighted customers that can help attract new customers.
all-encompassing maintenance and production individuals working together.
✓ Total –
The observation techniques and activities used to fulfil requirements for quality.
d. Quality Control:
refers to the processes and procedures that systematically monitor different aspects of a service, process or facility to detect, correct and ensure that quality standards are being met.
Quality assurance
The act of giving confidence, the state of being certain or the act of making certain.
a. Assurance:
The planned and systematic activities implemented in a quality system so that quality requirements for a product or service will be fulfilled.
b. Quality Assurance:
An evaluation to indicate needed corrective responses; the act of guiding a process in which variability is attributable to a constant system of chance causes.
c. Control:
refers to the methods that are used to control process variables when manufacturing a product.
Process control
For example, factors such as the proportion of one ingredient to another, the temperature of the materials, how well the ingredients are mixed, and the pressure under which the materials are held can significantly impact the quality of an end product.
Process control
Manufacturers control the production process for three reasons:
a. Reduce variability
b. Increase efficiency
c. Ensure safety
production of goods and services that meet or exceed customers’ expectations.
✓ Productive –
is the systematic execution of maintenance by all employees through small group activities.
Total productive maintenance (TPM)
Analyzing the three words of T, P, M we have?
✓ Total
✓ Productive
✓ Maintenance
keeping equipment and plant in as good as better than the original condition at all times.
✓ Maintenance -
is a set of systematic activities carried out by the entire organization to effectively and efficiently achieve company objectives so as to provide products and services with a level of quality that satisfies customers, at the appropriate time and price.
TQM
TQM – Definition “Explanation of key terms”
a. Systematic activities
b. Entire organization
c. Effective and efficient
d. Quality
Planned, strong leadership, Mid and long term vision, strategies and policies
a. Systematic activities –
everyone at all levels, across functions
b. Entire organization –
A system for maintaining desired standards in a product or process by inspecting samples of the product.
Quality Control Process
Maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods.
Quality Control Process
is the key element in every stage of the production process from raw materials to finished product.
Quality
Every manufacturer is faced with the problem if maintenance of the quality of his product. The term “?” is used to coordinate all those activities which are directed for defining controlling and maintaining quality.
Quality Control
is systematic control by management of the variables in the manufacturing process that affect goodness of the end product.
Quality Control
may be defined as that technique or group of techniques of the industrial management by means of which products of uniform acceptable quality are manufactured.
Quality control
To be successful implementing TQM, an organization must concentrate on the eight key elements:
a. Ethics.
b. Integrity.
c. Trust.
d. Training.
e. Teamwork.
f. Leadership.
g. Communication.
h. Recognition.
Management draws up a business code of ethics to which all personnel should adhere. Sometimes an external company is contracted to help produce a document.
a. Ethics.
Clients expect to find integrity in an organisation. Integrity encompasses morals, values, fairness, honesty and sincerity. If somebody makes a mistake, they should feel comfortable in admitting their error.
b. Integrity.
TQM cannot work without trust. It is essential for both the clients and the individual participants at all levels of the company. When workers are trusted to make decisions, they start to take pride in the organisation for which they work.
c. Trust.
Workers can only be highly productive when they receive appropriate training. Training can focus on areas such as interpersonal skills, working in a team, problem solving or performance analysis. Training should be on-going and given as the need arises.
d. Training.
The Total in TQM refers to the total involvement of an organization’s staff. People working in a team are more likely to make creative suggestionsthan those working in isolation.
e. Teamwork.
Leadership does not only refer to top management. In the case of TQM leadership is found at all levels. Workers need to be guided by leaders with a clear vision of the company’s goals.
f. Leadership.
Communication is the vital link between all of the organization’s elements. Information needs to be shared regularly and constantly. Communication takes place in three directions: downwards from top management to employees; upwards where workers provide management; and sideways where communication crosses over between different departments and to external suppliers and customers.
g. Communication.
Individuals and teams should have their efforts, ideas and achievements recognized. Recognition increases self-esteem and this, in turn, increases productivity. Recognition should come as soon as possible after the act that is being recognized.
h. Recognition.
6.2.Key role of process management
a. Establishment of the quality standards which are acceptable to the customer and economical for the manufacturing operations to maintain.
b. Location of flaws in the raw materials or in the processing of that material which will cause trouble at subsequent operations.
c. To analyze the trend and extent of quality deviation in a part or product during manufacturing process.
d. Determination of the cause of such deviation where it is not due to chance variables.
e. Taking the necessary corrective steps to keep the quality of the product from dropping below the tolerance limits.
f. To segregate defective goods
a. Establishment of the _________________ which are acceptable to the customer and economical for the manufacturing operations to maintain.
quality standards
b. _______________________________________________________________________ which will cause trouble at subsequent operations.
Location of flaws in the raw materials or in the processing of that material
c. To ___________________ and ______________________ in a part or product during manufacturing process.
analyze the trend and extent of quality deviation
d. Determination of the _______________________ where it is not due to chance variables.
cause of such deviation
e. ________________________________________ to keep the quality of the product from dropping below the tolerance limits.
Taking the necessary corrective steps
f. To segregate _________________
defective goods