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  1. What is Concept Design?
    Concept design is the early phase of design process in which the functions of the product ...
  2. What is Parameter Design?
    Parameter design means identifying the control variables and determining their levels specifically optimal level. control variables ...
  3. What is Tolerance Design?
    When design and producing products, it is near to impossible that the product will be perfect. ...
  4. What is Taguchi Process?
    Taguchi process is considered to be statistical but some behavioral aspects are also involved in taguchi ...
  5. What is Design for Six Sigma?
    A new trend in manufacturing is to incorporate customers' needs and preferences in the process. this ...
  6. What is Team?
    A team is a group of people working together to achieve a common goal. when working ...
  7. What is Empowerment?
    Empowerment is a term used for making the workers responsible to make decisions related to their ...
  8. What is Organizational Learning?
    Organizational learning simply means "learning at a corporate level". different functions are involved within an organization ...
  9. What is Situational Leadership Model?
    Situational leadership model is a theory that was proposed by hersey and blanchard. this theory outlines ...
  10. What is Readiness?
    Readiness is the willingness of an employee to learn something new and perform a specific task. ...
  11. What is Process Improvement Team?
    Process improvement team works when the objective is to improve a specific process. these teams can ...
  12. What is Cross Functional Team?
    Cross functional team involves people belonging to different functions of an organization i.e. production, marketing, finance ...
  13. What is Tiger Team?
    A tiger team consists of very highly skilled people. these teams are developed for a specific ...
  14. What are Natural Work Groups?
    An organization deal in different products or services or with different type of customers. sometimes organizations ...
  15. What is Self Directed Work Team?
    A type of work team called self-directed work team is a group of people who work ...
  16. What are Virtual Teams?
    As the trend of virtual organizations is increasing, the concept of virtual teams has emerged. virtual ...
  17. What is Facilitator?
    When people work together in a team, every member has a definite role to play. one ...
  18. What is Meeting Management?
    In quality improvement, it is necessary for different people to work together. for this, meetings must ...
  19. What is Conflict Resolution?
    Conflict resolution is a function of management that is essential for a leader or manager to ...
  20. What is Cost Benefit Analysis?
    In management, selecting and qualifying projects is important. it means to determine the worth of a ...
  21. What is Project Charter?
    The first step in project management is to identify the objectives of a project. this is ...
  22. What is Force-Field Analysis?
    A project must be planned efficiently for successful completion. a tool used for project planning is ...
  23. What is Work Breakdown Structure?
    After the objectives and goals of a project are established, the next step is to understand ...
  24. What is Culture?
    Just as a house, a city, or a country has a specific culture, an organization also ...
  25. What is Closeness to Customers?
    As the new concept of marketing in specific and business in general is focused mainly on ...
  26. What is Information System?
    To adopt an integrative approach within an organization, there must be a way to connect the ...
  27. What are Enterprise Capabilities?
    In order to achieve excellent quality in all the functions of an organization, the three spheres ...
  28. What is Self-assessment?
    Different activities are performed to adopt the process of continuous improvement. a quality system is established ...
  29. What is Quality Audit?
    Audits are ways of assessment of an organization regarding different functions. the assessment can be internal ...
  30. What is Auditing Standard?
    To perform efficient and effective audits, there must be some established standards that should be met. ...
  31. What is Auditing Procedure?
    The systematic process that guides an auditor to perform and effective audit is called auditing procedure. ...
  32. What is Operational Auditing?
    The operations of an organization must be monitored for improvements. operations of an organization involve different ...
  33. What is Supplier Audit?
    Supplier audit is a type of performance audit that focuses on the performance of a supplier/suppliers. ...
  34. What is Certification Audit?
    Organizations thrive to get certifications in various areas. the organizations tend to adopt the processes necessary ...
  35. What is Award Audit?
    When organizations apply for a quality award e.g. baldrige award, state quality awards, customer awards etc., ...
  36. What is Consultant Audit?
    Consultant audits are generally related to quality control activities. a team of consultants perform audit of ...
  37. What is Presidential Audit?
    Presidential audit is a type of performance audited that is performed by the organization's president/ceo. presidential ...
  38. What is Qualitative Audit?
    \usually, the factors that can be quantified are audited in an organization. these include financial audits, ...
  39. What is Annuity Relationship?
    When designing and selling products or providing services, the latest trend is that employees of operation ...
  40. What is Closed-loop Corrective Action?
    When feedback from customers is collected regarding any product or service, it is analyzed and areas ...
  41. What are Appraisal Costs?
    For quality improvements, some steps need to be taken which can incur cost to an organization. ...
  42. What is Attrition?
    Attrition is a term used for the loss of employees from an organization and not replacing ...
  43. What is Chain of Customers?
    Chain of customers is the term used for the concept which shows that a worker at ...
  44. What is Churn Reduction?
    Churn refers to the deflection of customers. it happens when the customers stop buying the products ...
  45. What is Computer-aided Inspection?
    With the increase in technology use, every stage of product development nowadays use technology. when a ...
  46. What is Customer Coproduction?
    Customer coproduction is a behavioral aspect of a customer in service industry. usually, when a service ...
  47. What is Design for Disassembly?
    A product is basically a system that comprises of a number of parts or components. when ...
  48. What is External Failure Cost?
    Failure costs are the costs that are associated with product failures. products can fail either at ...
  49. What is External Validation?
    In process improvement, assessment of the procedures etc. is important. this can be done by two ...
  50. What is Focus Group?
    A focus group is a group of people belonging to different backgrounds to participate in a ...
  51. What is Just-in Time (JIT)?
    Just-in time is a manufacturing system where the main focus is on waste reduction. it is ...
  52. What is Learning Curve Effect?
    Within an organization, different people with different expertise work. however, a person is never perfect. he/she ...
  53. What is Organizational Design?
    Organizations set objectives which are to be achieved with time through the tasks performed within the ...
  54. What is Payback Period?
    To determine the worthiness of a project based on different aspects, qualifying projects is important. one ...
  55. What is Product Traceability?
    Product traceability refers to the ease of tracing a product or a component of a product ...
  56. What is Prevention Costs?
    The traditional way of quality control was to check the quality at the end of the ...
  57. What is Product Data Management?
    An integrative approach is nowadays used to integrate different processes involves in the development of a ...
  58. What is Product Liability?
    Sometimes, a faulty or defective product can be sold to the customers. the defect in the ...
  59. What is Prototyping?
    A prototype is a sample of a design or a product as a whole which is ...
  60. What is Pugh Matrix?
    While designing products, several ideas and concepts come to the mind of a designer. from all ...