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| the act of defining and describing a process |
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| Statistical Quality Control |
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| the stabilization and maintenance of a process in the important quality characteristics that are being controlled |
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| can occur only after the process has been brought under control and stabilized |
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| the next process that receives the work output |
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| points in a process during which inspection or measurement should take place |
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| granted to suppliers that have demonstrated they use statistical process control and other methods to achieve consistent quality performance |
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| Statistical Process Control (SPC) |
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| utilizes inspection (or testing) of the product or service while it is being produced |
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| a process can be brought to a state of control and maintained in that state through the use of quality control charts |
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| the ability of the process to meet or exceed the technical specifications of the process; it is important to know the process capability, since it is not prudent to use a process that is inherently not capable of meeting the specifications that have been defined, since too many defects will be produced; specification width/process width |
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| a systematic method for process improvement that often uses the five steps defined by DMAIC |
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| 5 steps that can be used for process improvement: define, measure, analyze, improve, control |
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