- 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 ...
Producing more than one piece and then moving the pieces to the next operation before they are needed.
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The result of random effects and imperfect correction of systemic effects in obtaining a measurement value that results in variation from the actual true value; also known as measurement error.
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An imperfection severe enough to be noticed but that should not cause any real impairment with respect to intended normal or reasonably foreseeable use.
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In lean, the money invested to purchase things an organization intends to sell.
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A measure of central tendency; the arithmetic average of all measurements in a data set.
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A group, usually of eight to 10 people, that is invited to discuss an existing or planned product, service or process.
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A computerized system typically used to determine the quantity and timing requirements for production and delivery of items to both customers and suppliers. Using MRP to schedule production at various processes will result in push production because any predetermined schedule is an estimate only of what the next process will actually need.
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Taiichi Ohno originally enumerated seven wastes (muda) and later added underutilized people as the eighth waste commonly found in physical production. The eight are: 1. overproduction ahead of demand; 2. waiting for the next process, worker, material or equipment; 3. unnecessary transport of materials (for example, between functional areas of facilities, or to or from a stockroom or warehouse); 4. over-processing of parts due to poor tool and product design; 5. inventories more than the absolute minimum; 6. unnecessary movement by employees during the course of their work (such as to look for parts, tools, prints or help); 7. production of defective parts; 8. under-utilization of employees’ brainpower, skills, experience and talents.
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An independent quality organization until 2004 when it became an affiliate organization of ASQ. AQP continues today as ASQ’s Team and Workplace Excellence Forum.
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