Quality Management
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The Control Process
Who's down with JIT (and Lean)
Lagniappe
200

True or False: Before a dimension of quality can be made operationally useful, it must be in an unmeasurable form.

False

200

This is a systematic approach to improving a process.

Process improvement.

200

This step in the control process includes characteristics that can be counted.

Measure

200

What is a flexible system that uses considerably fewer resources than a traditional system?

Lean operation

200

What is the current #2 Country song according to Billboard as of yesterday?

I Had Some Help by Post Malone and Morgan Wallen

400

What are the 4 costs of quality?

Appraisal costs, prevention costs, internal failure costs, and external failure costs.

400

This is the process of ID'ing other organizations that are best at some facet of your operations and learning how to improve from them.

Benchmarking

400

This step in the control process includes sufficient detail about what is to be controlled.

Define

400

What is a highly coordinated activity that delivers goods and/or services when they are needed?

Just in time production (JIT)

400

Statistical Process Control's main purpose is this.

Alert when corrective action is needed.

600

This is a tool that is used to assess service quality.

SERVQUAL

600

In addition to correcting substandard work, employees have an ethical obligation to ________ the quality problem as well.

Report

600

This step in the control process includes a standard that can be used to evaluate the measurements.

Compare

600

True or False?

Managers considering an operations strategy reflecting the lean philosophy of operations should recognize that lean may leave their company vulnerable to supply chain disruptions.

True

600

Daily Double

What is the best class you've ever had at Louisiana Tech?

800

Daily Double

Tell me an interesting fact about yourself. If I find it really interesting, you get the points.

800

This is a tool that uses time-ordered values of a sample statistic to help detect the presence of correctable causes of variation in a process.

Control Chart

800

This step in the control process includes adjustments when a process is found to be out of control.

Correct

800

In the lean philosophy, the ideal lot size is what?

One

800

Once again, I suck. I didn't make a new question. You...

gain 1000 points. Say what???

1000

To minimize the cost of fixing quality problems, it is best to find and fix the problem during which phase?

The design phase

1000

What is the intended purpose of the Control phase of DMAIC?

Ensure improvements are sustained.

1000

This step in the process includes a definition of out of control.

Evaluate

1000

Who sang the song, OPP?

Naughty by Nature

1000

Lost production time, scrap and rework are examples of this type of cost of quality.

Internal failure costs.