Quality Management: Principles of Operations Management Chapter
Quality Management: Principles of Operations Management Chapter
Quality Management
Policies and procedures used to ensure that goods and services are produced with appropriate levels of quality to meet the needs of consumers
Types of Quality
Design quality meeting or exceeding the needs and expectations of customers Conformance quality the extent to which a process is able to meet design specifications
Customer Expectations
Performance primary operating characteristics Features bells and whistles Reliability probability of survival Conformance degree to which a product meets standards Durability length of practical use Serviceability speed, courtesy, and competence of repair Aesthetics how a product looks, feels, sounds, tastes, or smells
Stay in business
Provide jobs and more jobs
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Demings 14 Points (1 of 2)
1. Create a vision and demonstrate commitment. 2. Learn the new philosophy. 3. Understand inspection. 4. Stop making decisions purely on the basis of cost. 5. Improve constantly and forever. 6. Institute training. 7. Institute leadership.
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Demings 14 Points (2 of 2)
8. Drive out fear. 9. Optimize the efforts of teams. 10. Eliminate exhortations. 11. Eliminate numerical quotas and M.B.O. 12. Remove barriers to pride of workmanship. 13. Encourage education and self-improvement. 14. Take action.
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Cost of Quality
Prevention costs investments made to keep nonconforming products from occurring and reaching the customer Appraisal costs investments made to ensure conformance to requirements Internal failure costs costs due to unsatisfactory quality found before delivery to customers External failure costs costs that occur after poorquality products reach the customer
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6 Process Management
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ISO 9000:2000
Objectives
Achieve, maintain, and seek to continuously improve product quality (including services) in relationship to requirements. Improve the quality of operations to continually meet customers and stakeholders stated and implied needs. Provide confidence to internal management and other employees that quality requirements are being fulfilled and that improvement is taking place. Provide confidence to customers and other stakeholders that quality requirements are being achieved in the delivered product. Provide confidence that quality system requirements are fulfilled.
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Six Sigma
At most 3.4 defects per million opportunities (dpmo)
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Design development
Product and service performance
Design optimization
Minimize impact of variation in production and use
Design verification
Ensuring production system capability
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Control
Control the activity of ensuring conformance to requirements and taking action when necessary to correct problems and maintain stable performance. Types of variation
Common causes Special causes
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Importance of Metrology
Some variation is due to measurement error
Systematic (bias) Random
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Process Capability
Process capability the range of natural variation in a process Necessary
to predict how well a process will meet specifications, to specify technology requirements level of control needed
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Quality Improvement
Kaizen gradual and orderly continuous improvement Kaizen blitz intense and rapid improvement activity over a short time Deming cycle
Plan, Do, Study, Act
Seven QC Tools
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