- Industry: Quality management
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American Society for Quality (ASQ) is a global community of quality management professionals. Established in 1946 as the American Society for Quality Control (ASQC) in response to the need to sustain the many quality-improvement techniques used manufacturing during World War II, the organization ...
The science of weights and measures or of measurement; a system of weights and measures.
Industry:Quality management
A control chart in which the subgroup standard deviation, s, is used to evaluate the stability of the variability within a process.
Industry:Quality management
The smallest number of defectives (or defects) in the sample or samples under consideration that will require rejection of the lot.
Industry:Quality management
The action of a team facilitator when interrupting a discussion to state observations about group dynamics or the team process.
Industry:Quality management
A lean management philosophy that stresses removal of constraints to increase throughput while decreasing inventory and operating expenses. TOC’s set of tools examines the entire system for continuous improvement. The current reality tree, conflict resolution diagram, future reality tree, prerequisite tree and transition tree are the five tools used in TOC’s ongoing improvement process. Also called constraints management.
Industry:Quality management
A way to prioritize a list of issues, ideas or attributes by assigning points to each item based on its relative importance.
Industry:Quality management
Taking a specific product from raw materials to a finished product delivered to the customer.
Industry:Quality management
Use of material produced by one process in the same order by the next process. A FIFO queue is filled by the supplying process and emptied by the customer process. When a FIFO lane gets full, production is stopped until the next (internal) customer has used some of that inventory.
Industry:Quality management
An object for which a measurement or observation can be made; commonly used in the sense of a “unit of product,” the entity of product inspected to determine whether it is defective or nondefective.
Industry:Quality management
Basic computer characters accepted by all American machines and many foreign ones.
Industry:Quality management
