Test 3 material in full Flashcards
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Quality
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-Customer Dependent
- The degree to which performance of a product or service meets or exceeds customer expectations
2
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Walter Shewart
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- “The father of statistical quality control”
- developed control charts
- had a strong influence on Edward and Juran
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W. Edward Deming
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- assisted the Japanese in improving quality and productivity after WWII
- Deming Prize, awarded to firms that distinguish themselves with quality management
-Inefficiency and poor quality is the system, not the employees’ fault
-14 points - Special vs. Common cause of variation
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Joseph Juran
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-Quality as fitness-for-use
-80% of defects are controllable by management
- Continual improvement
- One of the first to measure the cost of quality
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