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What is quality?

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Meeting customer requirements

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What is reliability?

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To meet customer requirements consistently over a time period

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3
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What model is used to measure customer satisfaction?

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The Kano Model

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4
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3 levels of customer requirement

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basic, normal and latent (extra)

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5
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What are the total quality related costs? Include good and poor quality costs

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Good:
Appraisal costs

Prevention costs

Poor:
Internal and External failure costs

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6
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Describe the flow chart symbols for start/end, input/output, process and decision.

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start/end = oval

input/output = parallelogram

process = rectangle

decision = diamond

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What are the 3 project management strategies

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Prince 2: Controlled project management that leaves nothing to chance.

Waterfall - planning projects fully, then executing through phases. No changes after requirements set.

Agile - Collaborating to iteratively deliver whatever works as you go along.

Scrum (agile) - Agile cycles of daily sprints, or monthly sprints. Categorize priorities each sprint. Difficult to keep clients up to date. (IT)

Kanban (agile) - Improving speed and quality by increasing visibility of work in progress, and limiting multitasking. Work in weekly sprints. (manufacturing)

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8
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What are the two tools for cause analysis in quality?

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ishikawa (fishbone)

paerto (80 - 20_

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What are the 3 categories of components to an ishikawa diagram.

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M’s:

method
machine
manpower
materials

P’s:

Place
procedure
people
policies

S’s:

Surroundings
suppliers
systems
skills

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10
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What is the poke yoka?

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Prediction or recognise defect is about to occur and provide warning

Design out potential errors

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11
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What does pareto analysis dictate?

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80% of problems caused by 20% of problems

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12
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What are the 4 houses of quality?

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  • technical requirements
  • component charecterisation
  • process operation
  • quality control plan
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13
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Explain continuous quality management.

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A corrective loop that is constantly improving quality.

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14
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What is TQM?

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Total quality management:

  • Covers every level of the business
  • Covers the entire length of the production line
  • Correct the first time
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15
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Whats the deming cycle

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Plan > do > check > act

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16
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What is risk based thinking?

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ISO9001

determines factors that could cause its processes and quality management system to deviate from the planned results.

Put preventative controls in place to minimise negative affects

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What is the definition of risk and how is it calculated?

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exposure to harm, danger or loss to someone or something valued, with an indication of the level of harm caused.

Risk = Probability of event occurring * level of harm if it occurs

18
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Quantative vs Qualititive

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quantitive - more in depth, asign numbers to risk

Qualititve - less in depth but would be carried out first. Only assign low medium and high to risk.

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‘What if’ analysis

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Changing risk values to assess impact of these changes

20
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human reliability analysis

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determine human input to risk and reaction to failure

21
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what are the 5 stages of risk management?

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  1. identify
  2. analyse
  3. prioritise
  4. determine action
  5. monitor
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fault tree analysis

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identify problems before they occur

23
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event tree analysis

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After an accident has occurred, work backwards through events to determine event causing accident

24
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Redundancy?

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fail safe or backup

25
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fault tolerance?

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system continues to function in event of failure

26
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ISO31000

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Standards of risk management

27
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what is an Audit

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HSE comes to inspect safety

28
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What is the definition of six sigma?

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3.4 defects for every 1 million opportunities or operations

29
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What are the 8 steps to implementing six sigma?

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  1. Clarify motivation
  2. put resources in place
  3. Teach methodology
  4. prioritise activities
  5. establish ownership
  6. appropriate measurement
  7. govern the program
  8. recognise contribution
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