Glossary
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Our glossary for guidance - Letter Q

Whether an abbreviation or a technical term, you will find the answer here.

Quality Assurance Agreement.

 

QCDSM is an abbreviation for:

  • Quality
  • Costs
  • Delivery
  • Safety
  • Moral

Quality Function Deployment - Method for the structured implementation of customer requirements in products.

 

Quality Improvement Team.

 

QKLSA is an abbreviation for:

  • Qualität / Quality
  • Kosten / Cost
  • Lieferung / Delivery
  • Sicherheit / Safety
  • Arbeitsmoral / Work ethic

Abbreviation for quality management system

 

Qualitäts-Sicherungs-System, in english: Quality assurance system.

 

Qualitätssicherungsvereinbarung, in english: Quality assurance agreement.

 

Quality assurance (QA) refers to all organisational and technical measures that serve to create and maintain a specified/ defined quality of a service or product.

A quality circle is an internal, interdisciplinary team that deals with issues in its own field of work, analyses them and introduces appropriate solutions or improvements with the help of problem-solving and creativity techniques.

Quality control (QC) refers to processes (or tests) that deal with a target/actual comparison of specified product requirements.

 

The quality manager is the highest level of training in this field.

Tools

The seven quality tools (Q7) are composed as follows:

  • Fault record card
  • Histogram
  • Pareto analysis
  • Stratification
  • Ishikawa diagram
  • Correlation diagram
  • Quality control chart

Optimisation of downtimes between the last good part and the first good part caused by internal and external set-up processes.