They are performance, features, reliability, conformance, durability, serviceability, aesthetics and perceived quality. Random samples, statistical control charts, and acceptance plans are some of the tools that are used for quality control.
The P-chart is used to control the percentage of defectives in the sample. X-chart and R-chart are used to control sample means and sample ranges. Average outgoing quality AOQ curves and operating characteristics OC curves explain the workings of acceptance plans.
For a service organization, the quality can be judged only through the feedback from the customers. Case Studies in Management Control Systems. Project Management Textbook. Operations Management. Details Textbook: Pages : ; Paperback ; X mm approx. The processes that produce goods and services will all have some variation.
It is intuitive that the more variation in processes, the poorer the quality will be. Assignable variation is the type of variation where the cause can be clearly identified and corrected or managed.
An example of an assignable variation might be an error by an employee, a software glitch, or a tool breakage. Common variation , also referred to as chance variation, is the type of variation that is inherent in the process. It is generally to be expected, and not a cause of an error.
Intuitively, if we reduce or minimize either variation, we will improve product quality. Deming is likely the most well known of the Quality Gurus. He was an American engineer, statistician, professor and author. Beginning in Deming trained thousands of Japanese engineers, managers, and scholars in basic statistical process control.
He is credited with guiding the rise of Japanese superior quality. Deming The Deming Prize. Accessible format for Figure 5. Juran was a Romanian-born American engineer.
He is best known for the Quality Control Handbook , which was first published in He emphasized the importance of three specific factors which came to be known as the quality trilogy: quality planning, quality control and quality improvement. He authored hundreds of papers and 12 books. He is responsible for creating the concept known today the cost of quality.
The Juran Institute in the U. This Pareto principle is alive and well today in the field of quality and continuous improvement. Crosby was an American businessman and author.
He published Quality is Free in He believed that the costs of quality are often understated. He coined the phrase zero defects and felt that there was no reason for any errors. He taught that it is less expensive to do it right the first time rather than to pay for extra inspection, scrap, rework and repairs.
Feigenbaum was an American quality engineer and businessman. He devised the concept of total quality control, which later became total quality management TQM. Companies who provide excellent quality goods and services are obviously able to excel and differentiate themselves from competitors. They also tend to be more profitable and their losses and extra costs due to poor productivity, rework, inspection, and scrap will be negligible.
The various costs of quality can be broken down into the following four categories: prevention costs , appraisal costs, and failure costs, which are further classified as internal failure costs and external failure costs. Prevention costs include all the funds spent to prevent the occurrence of defects. Examples include quality improvement initiatives, employee training, upgrading of equipment, implementing quality procedures and making proactive design changes. All money spent in checking and testing of product during the production process would be considered Appraisal costs.
Wages of inspectors when defined as part of the process, testing labs and equipment, gauging, and process control, would be included in this category. Once a defect has been produced, with any luck the organization will detect the error before it leaves the building and is sent to the customer.
Often, defective products can be repaired, but all of the extra time spent on the rework is considered internal failure costs. Product that is unable to be repaired is classified as scrap. This also is Internal Failure costs. This can cause many other problems because customers still expect on-time deliveries.
Often other orders may have to be re-manufactured and expedited in order to compensate for products that are scrap. The customer is often not aware of these issues. Once a defective product has been shipped to the customer, the costs then become external failure costs. Replacement product, expedited shipping, potential law suits, product recalls, and of course loss of future business are all external failure costs.
It is impossible to predict the actual external failure costs since there is no way of gauging the impact of dissatisfied customers on future business. This is the objective of quality management. Generally speaking, a company adheres to TQM principles by focusing on three tasks:. Companies that are committed to TQM understand that the purpose of a business is to generate a profit by satisfying customer needs. Thus, they let their customers define quality by identifying and offering those product features that satisfy customer needs.
They encourage customers to tell them how to make the right products, both goods and services, that work the right way. Armed with this knowledge, they take steps to make sure that providing quality is a factor in every facet of their operations—from design, to product planning and control, to sales and service. By tracking the results of feedback over time, they can see where they need to improve. Successful TQM requires that everyone in the organization, not simply upper-level management, commits to satisfying the customer.
To get everyone involved in the drive for quality assurance, managers must communicate the importance of quality to subordinates and motivate them to focus on customer satisfaction. Employees have to be properly trained not only to do their jobs but also to detect and correct quality problems. In many companies, employees who perform similar jobs work as teams, sometimes called quality circles, to identify quality, efficiency, and other work-related problems, to propose solutions, and to work with management in implementing their recommendations.
An integral part of TQM is continuous improvement: the commitment to making constant improvements in the design, production, and delivery of goods and services. Improvements can almost always be made to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer service and satisfaction.
Everyone in the organization is constantly on the lookout for ways to do things better. The International Organization for Standardization ISO is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various standards organizations.
Founded on 23 February , the organization promotes worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial standards. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and works in countries. ISO is an independent, non- governmental organization and is the largest developer of voluntary international standards. Use of these standards assists organization to create products and services that are safe, reliable and of good quality.
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