quality-inspection costs
1Quality costs — The concept of quality costs is a means to quantify the total cost of quality related efforts and deficiencies. It was first described by Armand V. Feigenbaum in a 1956 Harvard Business Review article.[1] Prior to its introduction, the general… …
2Quality (pragmatics) — Quality in business, engineering and manufacturing has a pragmatic interpretation as the non inferiority or superiority of something. This is the most common interpretation of the term quality.Many different techniques and concepts have evolved… …
3inspection — in·spec·tion n: a careful and critical examination: as a: a buyer s examination of goods prior to payment or acceptance esp. in accordance with section 2 513 of the Uniform Commercial Code b: an examination of articles of commerce to determine… …
4Quality — In the vernacular, quality can mean a high degree of excellence (“a quality product”), a degree of excellence or the lack of it (“work of average quality”), or a property of something (“the addictive quality of alcohol”). [The third meaning… …
5Quality (business) — This article is about quality in a business context. For other uses, see Quality. Quality in business, engineering and manufacturing has a pragmatic interpretation as the non inferiority or superiority of something. Quality is a perceptual,… …
6Quality of service — In the field of computer networking and other packet switched telecommunication networks, the traffic engineering term quality of service (QoS) refers to resource reservation control mechanisms rather than the achieved service quality. Quality of …
7quality control — The activities and techniques used to achieve and maintain a high standard of quality in a transformation process. They may include systematic inspection of inputs and outputs, or a sample of inputs and outputs at various stages in their… …
8Cost of poor quality — (COPQ) or poor quality costs (PQC), are defined as costs that would disappear if systems, processes, and products were perfect. COPQ was popularized by IBM quality expert H. James Harrington in his 1987 book Poor Quality Costs.[1] COPQ is a… …
9Fagan inspection — refers to a structured process of trying to find defects in development documents such as programming code, specifications, designs and others during various phases of the software development process. It is named after Michael Fagan who is… …
10Automated optical inspection — (AOI) is an automated visual inspection of a wide range of products, such as printed circuit boards (PCBs), LCDs, transistors, automotive parts, lids and labels on product packages or agricultural products (seed corn or fruits). In case of PCB… …
