Quality Flashcards

1
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Total Quality Management (TQM) (3)

A

Customer Satisfaction
Employee Involvement
Continuous Improvement

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2
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Quality

A

degree of excellence, meeting or exceeding expectations of customers.

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3
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Quality includes (2)

A

high performance design
conformance

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4
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Quality is about developing an accurate understanding of….

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customer expectations and bridging any gap between expectations and achievement of organization

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5
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High Performance Design (4)

A

capabilities and characteristics customer expects
reliable and durable
good support for customers
any psychological impressions

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6
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Conformance

A

consistency to meet desired specifications

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7
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Specific tolerance

A

range you accept conformance

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8
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What leads to specific products and limited variability

A

high conformance and specific tolerances

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9
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Defect

A

Product failing specifications, standards or satisfying customer

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10
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Defects are associated with costs to control

A

Actual defects or fallouts of defects

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11
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Cost of quality (2)

A

Control and Failure

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12
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Control Costs (2)

A

Prevention and Appraisal

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13
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Prevention Costs

A

Avoiding defects before they happen

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14
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Appraisal Costs

A

recruit someone to assess level of quality attained by the system

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15
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Failure Costs (2)

A

Internal and External

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16
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Internal Failure

A

cost of defects detected during process

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17
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Rework

A

units repaired to achieve conformance

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18
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Scrap

A

units cannot be fixed

19
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External Failure costs

A

defect reaches customer

20
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Employee Empowerment

A

assigning responsibility for quality to employees lower in the organizational hierarchy

21
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Quality Circles

A

small groups of supervision and employee to solve quality problems

22
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Special Purpose Teams

A

Formed to address a high level concern to management

23
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Self Managing Team

A

small group takes full ownership over producing a major portion of product service

24
Q

Plan Do Check Act Cycle

A

Plan: Identify a problem and develop a plan to improve
Do: Implement a plan on a test basis
Check: is plan working
Act: establish improvement as norm in organization

25
Q

Plan Do Act Cycle
Supports and helps gradually remove

A

Supports continuous improvement
activities that do not add value for customer

26
Q

Six Sigma

A

minimize defects and variability in process

27
Q

DMAIC Model (5)

A

Define
Measure
Analyze
Improve
Control

28
Q

Statistical Process control

A

Determine whether out of a process conforms to the product/service design

29
Q

Attributes and what type of value

A

characteristics measured qualitatively – discrete values etc defective/non-defective

30
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Variables

A

characteristics measured quantitatively – continuous values etc weight, length volume

31
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Common Cause Variation

A

random and generally unavoidable

32
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Assignable Cause Variation:

A

variation-causing factors, can be identified and eliminated

33
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Organizations can only inspect a _______ rather than

A

sample of units
complete inspection

34
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Sampling Plan

A

specifies the size, time between samples and decision rules if action should be taken

35
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Sample size

A

number of units randomly selected

36
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Average value of SPC graph

A

central line of graph

37
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UCL

A

Upper Control Limit

38
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LCL

A

Lower Control Limit

39
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What do control limits do?
What they represent
What are they observed only with

A

Represent the max/min values
observe only with random and unavoidable variation

40
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P-Chart

A

control proportion of defective products

41
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C-chart

A

control the count of defects per unit/customer

42
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R-chart:

A

monitor changes in process variability by examining range of particular variable

43
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x-bar-chart

A

monitor changes in average of the variable