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1
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What is Quality Control?

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Checking the quality once the product has been made (at the end)

2
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What are some methods of Quality Control?

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  • Sampling
  • Mystery Guest
  • Automatic Reject
3
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What is Quality Assurance?

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Putting systems in place in advance to guarantee the quality whilst the product is being made

4
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Out of Quality Control and Quality Assurance - which one has the most responsibility ?

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Quality Assurance

5
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Out of Quality Control and Quality Assurance - which one is the fastest?

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Quality Control

6
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Out of Quality Control and Quality Assurance - which one is easier to design?

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Quality Control

7
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Out of Quality Control and Quality Assurance - which one needs more training?

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Quality Assurance

8
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Out of Quality Control and Quality Assurance - which one finds early faults?

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Quality Assurance

9
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Out of Quality Control and Quality Assurance - which one needs specialist staff?

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Quality Assurance

10
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Out of Quality Control and Quality Assurance - which one has Excessive Costs (Time, Money) ?

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Quality Assurance

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Why is it important for a business to offer a high quality product?

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  • Improves customer satisfaction
  • Non-Price differences between competition
  • Can charge more for products
  • USP
12
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Problems with a business investing in quality?

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  • Makes the amount produced smaller
  • Slower production time (wastes time)
  • Increased resource + labour costs
  • De-motivated staff
13
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What does the Just in Time Method involve?

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Keeping stock to an absolute minimum and the raw materials are ordered when they are needed (only buy supplies when you need them)

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What is Lean Production?

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Being as efficient as possible with minimum waste (time, energy, stock etc)

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Benefits of Just in Time ordering.

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  • Less storage needed (Rent)
  • No wasted resources
  • Money spent is low (better cash flow)
  • Labour Costs are minimised
16
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What is Total Quality Management?

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  • Everybody is involved in checking quality were they work

- The product will only moved once it has passed these checks

17
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Benefits of Total Quality Management?

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  • Better Quality product

- Single Process

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Problems with Total Quality Management?

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  • Time waste
  • Expensive
  • Wasted Resources