ch 7: understanding quality Flashcards
ability of a product or service to consistently meet or exceed customer requirements or expectations.
quality
However, different customers will have different requirements, so a working definition of quality is?
customer-dependent
For a decade or so, quality was an important focal point in business. But after a while, the emphasis on quality began to fade, and quality took a backseat to other concerns. However, there has been an upsurge recently in the need for attention to quality. Much of this has been driven by recent experience with?
costs and adverse publicity associated with wide-ranging recalls that have included automobiles, ground meat, toys, produce, dog food, and pharmaceuticals.
Focuses on customer satisfaction – the only guarantee for long term survival assured “quality” in every process is the objective of this
TQM
A scientific, systematic, companywide activity “in which a company is devoted to customers through its products and services.
TQM
usefulness, reliability, safety
d. Quality –
Consumers may focus on the specification quality of a product/service, or?
how it compares to competitors in the marketplace
Quality in business, engineering and manufacturing has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority or superiority of something; it is also defined as?
“fitness for purpose”
Quality is sometimes defined as “meeting the?
“meeting the? requirements of the customer.”
describes any systematic process for ensuring quality during the successive steps in developing a product or service.
quality assurance
is a standard for ensuring that a company’s quality assurance system follows best industry practices.
ISO 9000
has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority or superiority of something; it is also defined as “fitness for purpose”. Consumers may focus on the specification quality of a product/service, or how it compares to competitors in the marketplace
Quality in business, engineering and manufacturing
There are five aspects of quality in a business context
(enumerate)
a. Producing
b. Checking
c. Quality Control
d. Quality Management
e. Quality Assurance
(PC3Q)
providing something.
a. Producing -
confirming that something has been done correctly.
b. Checking -
controlling a process to ensure that the outcomes are predictable.
c. Quality Control -
directing an organization so that it optimizes its performance through analysis and improvement.
d. Quality Management –
obtaining confidence that a product or service will be satisfactory. (Normally performed by a purchaser)
e. Quality Assurance –
achieve planned results with least resources
c. Effective and efficient –
Quality has many meanings – many of them are subjective, such as the term?
“excellent” or “outstanding” quality.
In the quality management field, quality has a more specific meaning. “According to ISO 9001:2008, quality is defined as
“the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfils requirements”.
The very favorable experience of the client of a business when they have received a good or service that significantly surpasses what they had initially anticipated.
Quality
A marketing department can use instances of customer delight to a company’s advantage by requesting referrals and obtaining testimonials from delighted customers that can help attract new customers.
all-encompassing maintenance and production individuals working together.
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