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31Quality 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… …
32Quality control — This article is about the project management process. For other uses, see Quality control (disambiguation). Maintenance check of electronic equipment on a U.S. Navy aircraft …
33Quality — 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… …
34Quality (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,… …
35total — /toht l/, adj., n., v., totaled, totaling or (esp. Brit.) totalled, totalling. adj. 1. constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure. 2. of or pertaining to the whole of something: the total effect of a play. 3.… …
36Quality Management — The act of overseeing all activities and tasks needed to maintain a desired level of excellence. This includes creating and implementing quality planning and assurance, as well as quality control and quality improvement. It is also referred to as …
37Quality management system processes — A Quality Management System process is a business excellence which forms an element of the Quality Management System (QMS) of an organisation. The standard requires organisations seeking compliance or certification to define the processes which… …
38quality 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… …
39quality assurance — The design and implementation of systematic activities aimed at preventing quality problems; British Standard 5750 provides a classic example. The approach lies somewhere between the process performance orientation of quality control and the… …
40quality audit — The auditing of activities and operations with focus on adherence to the principles of *total quality management. Contrast *audit quality …
