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Quality Control for Dummies
By: Larry Webber , Michael WallaceeBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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So you’ve been asked to lead a quality control initiative? Or maybe you’ve been assigned to a quality team. Perhaps you’re a CEO whose main concern is to make your company faster, more efficient, and less expensive. Whatever your role is, quality control is a critical concept in every industry and profession.
Quality Control For Dummies is the straightforward, easy guide to improving your company’s quality. It covers all of today’s available options and provides expert techniques for introducing quality methods to your company, collecting data, designing quality processes, and more. This hands-on guide gives you all the tools you’ll ever need to enhance your company’s quality, including: Understanding the importance of quality standards Putting fundamental quality control methods to use Listening to your customer about quality issues Whipping quality control into shape with Lean Working with value stream mapping Focusing on the 5S method Supplement a process with Kanban Fixing tough problems with Six Sigma Using QFD to win customers over Improving you company with TOC
This invaluable reference is written from an unbiased viewpoint, giving you all the facts about each theory with no fuzzy coverings. It also includes steps for incorporating quality into a new product and Web sites packed with quality control tips and techniques. With Quality Control For Dummies , you’ll be able to speed up production, eliminate waste, and save money!
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| Title of Business & Economics eBook: Quality Control for Dummies | |
| Release Date: 02-25-2011 | |
| Publisher: For Dummies |
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Quality Control for Dummies
Chapter One
Defining and Explaining Quality ControlIn This Chapter
* Reviewing customer- and statistics-based definitions of quality
* Applying your industry's quality standards
* Discovering how to prevent errors and inspect processes
* Focusing on the fundamentals of quality control
* Brushing up on the basics of Lean
* Surveying additional quality control processes
Welcome! Because you're reading this book, you've probably
Been asked to lead a quality control initiative.
Been assigned to a quality team.
Heard your company CEO say quality is job #1.
Heard rumors about new quality programs at your company.
Of course, you may simply be curious about the topic of quality control, and you want to discover more about how quality control affects your company and your job. We commend your dedication and initiative!
Quality control is a critical concept in every industry and profession. As globalization continues and the world becomes smaller, making it possible for consumers to pick and choose from the best products worldwide, the survival of your job and of your company depends on your ability to produce a quality product or service. In this chapter, we define the term "quality," and we introduce some important quality control concepts and methods.
Looking at Different Definitions of "Quality"
Everyone says that they want quality products or services, or a high level of quality, but what do they really mean? Is it possible to have too much quality? Wit
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