Quality Plan Flashcards
What are the 7 steps for creating a quality plan?
- Select persons responsible for creating the quality plan.
- Identify customers
- Identify customer’s needs and expectations
- Determine what products or services will meet the customer’s needs and expectations.
- Develop/ Implement systems and processes needed to produce products and services.
- Deploy and monitor plan across all the necessary systems
- Make adjustments as needed.
ASQ Notes
What does a Quality Plan (QP) contain?
Who is doing it
What and how is being done
How and when it is being done
Strategy, Goals, Objectives
When: Procedures and resources required
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How are Quality Plans (QPs) linked to the phases of organizational planning?
Strategic: Goals and objectives and what the org wants to accomplish as well as resources allocated to the plan
Tactical: Course of action needed and lists what needs to be done, by who, and by when. Essentially project planning. Makes the plan in short term actionable activities
Operational: Defines the procedures, assigns roles and responsibilities to process owners who are accountable for performing the activities. Also defined the reporting structure for reporting real time status on plan activities
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_____ is the emphasis on designing a service or product.
Quality Planning
______ is comprised of a series of activities that anticipate potential degradation in a service or product.
Quality Assuance
______ is error proofing a service or product.
Quality Control
What supports the efforts of continuous improvement?
Quality Assurance
Quality control
Quality planning
What is Employee Involvement and Empowerment?
Involved employees provide input and empowered can act within the boundaries of their authority without prior approval.
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What are Systems and processes?
Most processes are interconnected to other processes such as with SIPOC.
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What does SIPOC stand for?
Supplier, Inputs, Process, Outputs, and Customers
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What are Variations?
Difference in the designed output and common versus special cause variations
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What is Standardization?
Meet the minimum requirements per the standard
Precise, documented and applicable across various areas
ISO standards are the most widely used and accepted in the world
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What are the evaluation programs?
ISO 9000 standards and Baldrige performance of excellence
