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  2. Cost of poor quality - Wikipedia

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    Cost of poor quality (COPQ) or poor quality costs (PQC) or cost of nonquality, are 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 Cost. [1] COPQ is a refinement of the concept of quality costs.

  3. Quality, cost, delivery - Wikipedia

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    Quality, cost, delivery (QCD), sometimes expanded to quality, cost, delivery, morale, safety (QCDMS), [1] is a management approach originally developed by the British automotive industry. [2] QCD assess different components of the production process and provides feedback in the form of facts and figures that help managers make logical decisions.

  4. Quality costs - Wikipedia

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    In process improvement efforts, quality costs tite or cost of quality (sometimes abbreviated CoQ or COQ [1]) 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.

  5. Ishikawa diagram - Wikipedia

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    Ishikawa diagrams were popularized in the 1960s by Kaoru Ishikawa, [4] who pioneered quality management processes in the Kawasaki shipyards, and in the process became one of the founding fathers of modern management. The basic concept was first used in the 1920s, and is considered one of the seven basic tools of quality control. [5]

  6. Zero Defects - Wikipedia

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    To convince executives to take action to resolve issues of poor quality, costs associated with poor quality must be measured in monetary terms. [19] [11]: 121 Crosby uses the term "the price of nonconformance" in preference to "the cost of quality" to overcome the misimpression that higher quality requires higher costs. [18]

  7. Taguchi loss function - Wikipedia

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    The concept of Taguchi's quality loss function was in contrast with the American concept of quality, popularly known as goal post philosophy, the concept given by American quality guru Phil Crosby. Goal post philosophy emphasizes that if a product feature doesn't meet the designed specifications it is termed as a product of poor quality ...

  8. College Football Playoff bracket: Full schedule, how to watch ...

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    The first 12-team College Football Playoff bracket is set. Here's what to know, including the full schedule of bowl games and how to watch the action.

  9. Price–performance ratio - Wikipedia

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    However, a neutral cost-performance ratio (between 1.0 and 1.9) could suggest a certain degree of stagnation in the budget. Business trips can also be factored into the cost–performance ratio because spending $50 to do a journey spanning 100 miles (160 km) in two hours is a better cost–performance ratio than spending $105 to do the journey ...