Wk 1 - Introduction to Quality Control Flashcards
the combination of attributes or characteristics of a product which, when compared to a standard, serves as a basis for measuring the uniformity of the product and determines its degree of acceptability
Quality
Control
Quality Control
Quality Assurance
QA vs QC
Quality Assurance
QA vs QC
Quality Control
Quality Control System
What are the benefits of establishing a Quality Control System?
Benchmarking
TQM
Total Quality Management
What are the primary elements of TQM?
- Customer focused
- Total employee involvement
- Process-centered
- Integrated system
- Strategic and Systematic
- Continual improvement
- Fact-based decision making
- Communications
quality assessment with an attached judgment that the evaluated unit is good enough to have the right to exist in a particular system.
Accreditaton
Accreditation is usually given for a limited amount of time and is renewed and repeated in a cyclical process. For how many years is accreditation valid?
4 to 10 years
A voluntary, non-treaty federation of standards setting bodies of some 130 countries, promoting the development of standardization and related activities to facilitate international trade in goods and services, and cooperation on economic, intellectual, scientific, and technological aspects
ISO
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
When and where was ISO first founded?
Geneva (1946-1947) as a UN agency