The document discusses the key parameters of quality. It identifies performance, features, reliability, durability, conformance, uniformity, aesthetics, and perception as the main parameters. It provides definitions and examples for each parameter. Performance refers to the primary operating characteristics and accomplishing tasks to preset standards. Features are secondary characteristics that provide customer benefits. Reliability is the ability to consistently perform as intended without failure. Durability ensures long equipment life without maintenance. Conformance means meeting legal and specified standards. Uniformity means consistency between products with no variation. Aesthetics are the external looks of a product. Perception is how people translate sensory inputs into understanding reality.
2. QUALITY
Totality of characteristics/featues of a
product/service that enable it to satisfy needs of a
customer
Measure of excellence
State of being free from defects
Brought about by certain standards
Eg. Defected car recalled by an automobile industry
, trust is lost in cars quality
3. PARAMETERS OF QUALITY
Performance
Features
Reliability
Durability
Conformance
Uniformity/Consistency
Aesthetics
Perception
4. PERFORMANCE
Primary operating characteristic
The accomplishment of a given task measured
against preset known standards of accuracy,
completeness, cost, and speed
Eg. Top speed in a car
5. FEATURES
Secondary operating characteristics
Means of providing benefits to customers. A feature
is a distinctive characteristic of a good or service
that sets it apart from similar items
A coustomer is benefitted by distinctive features
Eg. In case of mobile phones
6. RELIABILITY
.The ability of an apparatus, machine, or system to
consistently perform its intended or required
function or mission, on demand and without
degradation or failure
Also known as failure free operation
7. DURABILITY
Assurance that an equipment or machine will have
long continuous life without irregular maintainance
Amount of usage till product can be used without
replacement
Eg. water resistant watch upto 200m screams of
duribility of the watch
8. CONFORMANCE
Certification or confirmation that a good, service, or
conduct meets the requirements of legislation,
accepted practices, prescribed rules and
regulations, specified standards, or terms of a
contract
Fulfilling the needs of customer
Granting of ISO/ISI certification of products
9. UNIFORMITY
Consistency implies absolute comparability
between two or more products or processes and
there is lack of variation between the items being
compared
Eg. 1947 ferrari and 2015 ferrari
10. AESTHETICS
The looks or the external appearance of a product
is known as aesthetics
Eg. Mobile phones
11. PERCEPTION
The process by which people translate sensory
impressions into a coherent and unified view of the
world around them
It is equated with reality and guides human
behaviour