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Intro to Quality
Quality Concepts
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Engineering
Undergraduate 2
01/27/2011

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Term
Loss Function
Definition
Deals with societal losses through failure to meet customer requirements, failure to meet ideal performance, and harmful side effects.
Term
Crosby
Definition

 

  • Zero Defects
  • Quality = Price of non-conformance
  • Quality is prevention
  • Quality without tears
  • Human error caused by lack of attention
  • Behavioral approach to quality
  • Still responsibility of mgmt, but not stats

 

Term
Matsushita
Definition

 

  • We will win

 

Term
Maslow
Definition
Hierarchy of Needs(Societal)
Term
Hertzberg
Definition
Hygiene Factors > Not Met > Dissatisfied Motivators > Met > Satisfied
Term
McGregor
Definition

  • Theory X :( 
  • Theory Y :)

Term
Taylor
Definition

  • Scientific Management
  • Time and motion studies
  • Controversial for dehumanizing factories

Term
Shewhart
Definition

 

  • Founder of stats
  • SPC(Statistical Process Control)
  • Father of many modern ideas regarding quality
  • Total Quality Management

 

Term
Juran
Definition

 

  • Quality Management
  • quality = fitness for use
  • Pareto principle 80/20
  • Need for widespread training
  • project-by-project approach to improving quality

 

Term
Deming
Definition

 

  • Red Bead Experiment
  • 14 Points
  • Quality Prize
  • not known to USA until 1980s

 

Term
Joiner
Definition
Obsession for Quality
Term
Taguchi
Definition
Loss Function
Term

"Any time you're having a problem, 80-85% of the time it is not people, it's the ________,

it's the ________ being used,

it's the ________ itself,

its something people can do nothing about."

Definition

Process, Equipment, Design

 

Don Peterson

Term
Responsibility of quality lies at the _______.
Definition

top

 

Deming

Term
And there is no substitute for ________.
Definition

knowledge

 

Deming

Term

What could be measured, must be measured ________.

Control charts could show what is in statistically controlled and what is not.

Definition

exactly

 

Shewhart

Term
...the important thing was that quality control was about ______ and not ______.
Definition

People, Products

 

Koji Kobayashi

Term
Beware of _______, you better know how to use them.  Be guided by _______.
Definition

Figures, Theory

 

Deming

Term
(Peterson) began to see how fundamentally important ________ are in his(Deming) basic management principles.
Definition
people
Term
The American approach and in Europe we consider meeting the limits is 'good enough', where as Japanese theory deals more with striving for ________ ________.
Definition
Continues Improvement
Term
Quality is a way of _________.
Definition

thinking

 

Deming

Term
If you do NOT seek ________ ________ in all that you do, you really have not implemented a true quality process.
Definition

continuous improvement

 

Florida Power and Light

Term

 

Need not competition but ________.

Competition will ruin a nation.

 

Definition

 

 

Cooperation

 

Deming

 

Term

Pareto Chart

identify greatest defects

Definition
[image]
Term

Fishbone

cause and effect

Definition
[image]
Term

Control Chart

output of a process/system

Definition
[image]
Term

Scatter Diagram

Correlation of 2 characteristics

Definition
[image]
Term

Histogram

frequency distribution

Definition
[image]
Term
14 Points
Definition

 

  • Constantly improve every system of production and service
  • Create constancy of purpose
  • Drive out fear and create trust
  • End business practices driven by price alone
  • Encourage education and self-improvement
  • Eliminate arbitrary numerical quotas and MBO Focus on improvement
  • Eliminate exhortations for work force
  • Institute teaching
  • Learn and adopt the new philosophy
  • Optimize team and individual efforts
  • Remove barriers that rob people of pride of workmanship
  • Take action to accomplish the transformation
  • Teach and institute leadership
  • Under the purpose of inspection

 

Term
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Definition
[image]
Term
Abraham Maslow
Definition

 

  • 5 levels of basic needs
  • Higher levels exist
  • ...including spritual needs, aesthetic appreciation, understanding
  • Do not feel higher level needs until lower needs met first

 

Term

Juran's Triangle

-an approach to cross-functional mgmt

-quality planning, control, improvement

Definition
[image]
Term
Joiner's triangle
Definition
[image]
Term
Taylor pos +
Definition

  • Use of experimentation and data to search for the best way to work
  • Standardization of tools and procedures
  • Managements responsibility to train the workforce

Term
Taylor neg -
Definition

  • All important knowledge is in the heads of management
  • Focus on work quotas and time and motion studies
  • Money is NOT the best motivator
  • Enthrone individual work, inhibit team work
  • Narrowly define each workers' task and require strict adherence to quotas and procedures

Term
Hygiene Factors
Definition

  • Company policies
  • supervision
  • salary
  • status
  • security
  • working conditions
  • interpersonal relations

Term
Motivators
Definition

  • Achievement recognition
  • Interest in the task
  • Enlarged responsibility
  • Growth and advancements

Term
Red Bead Experiment
Definition

 

  • All variation came from the process
  • No evidence that any worker was better than another
  • Don't blame employees
  • Improve processes
  • Pay for performance can be futile

 

Term

Red Bead

inspection

Definition

  • inspection after process complete doesn't improve quality
  • quality inspectors add no value
  • Some defective products still reach customer
  • quality efforts at all stages
  • End-of-line inspection won't discover defects until after a lot of time/effort wasted

Term

Red Bead

workers

Definition

  • Clear instructions to workers and process will behave as intended
  • Clear instruction will not improve an out-of-control process
  • Intimidation creates fear which does nothing to improve a process
  • Praise will not improve process

Term

Read Bead

incentives

Definition

  • Slogans raise quality as an issue, but also mgmt saying a reminder is required
  • incentives will not improve a process

Term

Read Bead

variation

Definition

  • process has a natural variation
  • each day will produce diff data w/in natural range
  • We must collect data to understand range
  • Process must capable of meeting requirements
  • If customer's requirements are tighter than we can consistently produce acceptable products are by accident only

Term
SPC
Definition

  • Statistical Process Control
  • lack of info hindered processes
  • aid the mgmt in making scientific, efficient, economical decisions

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