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  2. Carol Fowler Durham - Wikipedia

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    Durham is an internationally recognized expert in simulation for quality improvement, education, and assessment with simulation methodologies. [3] [4] Durham has been a member of the RWJFs Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project since 2005, when she developed simulation-based educational activities to reflect cutting-edge ...

  3. Quality management - Wikipedia

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    Quality management ensures that an organization, product or service consistently functions well. It has four main components: quality planning, quality assurance, quality control, and quality improvement. [1] Quality management is focused both on product and service quality and the means to achieve it.

  4. Zero Defects - Wikipedia

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    The quality improvement program incorporated ideas developed or popularized by others (for example, cost of quality (step 4), employee education (step 8), and quality councils (step 13)) with the core motivation techniques of booklets, films, posters, speeches, and the "ZD Day" centerpiece.

  5. Total quality management - Wikipedia

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    "Increased quality comes from systematic analysis and improvement of work processes." "Quality improvement is a continuous effort and conducted throughout the organization." The Navy used the following tools and techniques: The PDCA cycle to drive issues to resolution; Ad hoc cross-functional teams (similar to quality circles) responsible for ...

  6. Quality engineering - Wikipedia

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    Quality engineering is the discipline of engineering concerned with the principles and practice of product and service quality assurance and control. [1] In software development, it is the management, development, operation and maintenance of IT systems and enterprise architectures with high quality standard.

  7. Quality control - Wikipedia

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    Quality inspector in a Volkseigener Betrieb sewing machine parts factory in Dresden, East Germany, 1977. Quality control (QC) is a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production. ISO 9000 defines quality control as "a part of quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements". [1]

  8. Operational excellence - Wikipedia

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    It is intended to enable employees to identify, deliver, and enhance the flow of value to customers. Common frameworks associated with operational excellence include: lean management and Six Sigma, which emphasize efficiency, waste reduction, and quality improvement. Organizations that adopt these practices may report increased customer ...

  9. Seven basic tools of quality - Wikipedia

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    The seven basic tools of quality are a fixed set of visual exercises identified as being most helpful in troubleshooting issues related to quality. [1] They are called basic because they are suitable for people with little formal training in statistics and because they can be used to solve the vast majority of quality-related issues.