- 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 ...
A planning tool to diagram a sequence of events or activities (nodes) and their interconnectivity. It is used for scheduling and especially for determining the critical path through nodes.
Industry:Quality management
A four-step process for quality improvement. In the first step (plan), a way to effect improvement is developed. In the second step (do), the plan is carried out, preferably on a small scale. In the third step (check), a study takes place between what was predicted and what was observed in the previous step. In the last step (act), action is taken on the causal system to effect the desired change. The plan-do-check-act cycle is sometimes referred to as the Shewhart cycle, because Walter A. Shewhart discussed the concept in his book Statistical Method From the Viewpoint of Quality Control, and as the Deming cycle, because W. Edwards Deming introduced the concept in Japan. The Japanese subsequently called it the Deming cycle. Also called the plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycle.
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A person or organization that receives a product, service or information but is not part of the organization supplying it.
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The metric against which a complete action is compared.
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The practice of applying a code of conduct based on moral principles to day-to-day actions to balance what is fair to individuals or organizations with what is right for society.
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One of the three elements that make up standard work. It is the minimum quantity of parts always on hand for processing during and between subprocesses. It allows workers to do their jobs continuously in a set sequence, repeating the same operation over and over in the same order.
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A tool for organizing, summarizing and depicting data in graphic form.
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A manufacturing company organized to eliminate all unproductive effort and unnecessary investment, both on the shop floor and in office functions.
Industry:Quality management
The application of statistical techniques to control quality. Often used interchangeably with the term “statistical process control,” although statistical quality control includes acceptance sampling, which statistical process control does not.
Industry:Quality management
