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  2. Total quality management - Wikipedia

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    Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Total Quality Management (1990-02-15), Total Quality Management Guide: A Two Volume Guide for Defense Organizations, vol. 2—A Guide to Implementation, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Defense, OCLC 834271878, ADA230439, archived from the original on December 11, 2013

  3. Quality management - Wikipedia

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    Quality management is focused both on product and service quality and the means to achieve it. Quality management, therefore, uses quality assurance and control of processes as well as products to achieve more consistent quality. Quality control is also part of quality management. What a customer wants and is willing to pay for it, determines ...

  4. Eight dimensions of quality - Wikipedia

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    Garvin anticipated that the features of quality which he delineated would provide a business management vocabulary intended to support the use of quality as a strategic planning tool. Garvin, who died on 30 April 2017, [2] was posthumously honored with the prestigious award for 'Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method' on 4 March 2018.

  5. Six Sigma - Wikipedia

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    Six Sigma (6σ) is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement.It was introduced by American engineer Bill Smith while working at Motorola in 1986. [1] [2]Six Sigma strategies seek to improve manufacturing quality by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes.

  6. Quality management system - Wikipedia

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    A quality management system (QMS) is a collection of business processes focused on consistently meeting customer requirements and enhancing their satisfaction. It is aligned with an organization's purpose and strategic direction ( ISO 9001:2015 ). [ 1 ]

  7. Quality (business) - Wikipedia

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    While quality management and its tenets are relatively recent phenomena, the idea of quality in business is not new. In the early 1900s, pioneers such as Frederick Winslow Taylor and Henry Ford recognized the limitations of the methods being used in mass production at the time and the subsequent varying quality of output, implementing quality ...

  8. Continual improvement process - Wikipedia

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    Some see continual improvement processes as a meta-process for most management systems (such as business process management, quality management, project management, and program management). [3] W. Edwards Deming , a pioneer of the field, saw it as part of the 'system' whereby feedback from the process and customer were evaluated against ...

  9. Quality engineering - Wikipedia

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    The end-to-end quality management approach to quality engineering requires numerous actors with different responsibilities and tasks, different expertise and involvement in the organisation. Different roles involved in quality engineering: Business architect, IT architect, Security officer, Requirements engineer, Software quality manager, Test ...