Quality Control: The Means to an End
Quality control promotes cycle time reduction, variability reduction, and better management. Methods used to measure quality control include statistical process control (SPC), pareto charts, ishakawa diagrams (cause-and-effect, fishbone), check sheets, scatter plots, taguchi quality philosophy, and the 5 S’s. Some of these methods require extensive measurements and a lot of information to give an accurate description of the situation and some of these methods require only a brainstorming session. Below a few of these are detailed.
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