To be considered as very important. Great & significant
High Value
SharePoint site that ensures only approved, current business process documents are used.
IBMS
A notification to a specific area or across the organization that communicates specific actions that are required to resolve a quality issue.
Quality Alert
...is any article or substance, foreign to an aircraft or system, which could potentially cause damage. This concept applies to all facets of the ASD market: manufacturing, warehouse, shipping, or any area where small debris, loose objects, or wildlife could create a safety hazard
FOD
Defect
A quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something.
Attribute
Their responsibility to appoint a specific member of the organization’s management at each site as its quality management representative.
Top Management
To control the quality of material within the manufacturing process and segregate the suspect material for review and disposition.
Purge Process
A transfer of electrostatic charge between bodies at different electrostatic potentials caused by direct contact or induced by an electrostatic field.
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
A method that uses a series of questions to drill down into successive layers of a problem
5-Whys
Behavior showing high moral standards with Honor and Integrity.
Virtue
System responsible for organizational process management; and therefore monitors the efficiency and effectiveness of all process documents in IBMS and the execution of this process.
The Quality Management System (QMS)
Control of Nonconforming Outputs (MRB)
Area designated and outlined with ESD cautionary tape
EPA
A failure to comply with a rule, policy, procedure, work instruction, statute and/or regulation
Noncompliance
Achievement or Completeness.
Perfection
Widely adopted and standardized quality management system for the aerospace industry
For configuration items that require customer formal approval. Where CM facilitates the process in accordance with project/program requirements.
Formal ECP Process
Adopted Methodology from a technique developed by the Japanese to reduce waste, prevent FOD, and optimize efficiency in the workplace.
6S
limit a problem extent while continue normal operation until the root cause is defined and permanent corrective action. is implemented.
containment
Process of classifying something according to shared characteristics or a category into which something is placed.
Classification
Meet or exceed our customers’ expectations through accurate requirements capture, analysis and compliance; Monitor and continually improve the way we do business; in order to… Maximize value for all stakeholders.
DRS Quality Policy
Products cannot be shipped to it unless an associated deviation or CR is released prior to shipping.
Redline
Those materials that have limited shelf life as prescribed by the manufacturer, government or customer requirements, or DRS requirements
Perishable Items
Action taken to eliminate the cause of a detected discrepancy or other undesirable situation to prevent recurrence
Corrective Action