What is quality and quality improvement, what is cost reduction, types of problems (sporadic and chronic), need of quality improvement and cost reduction
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Quality improvement and cost reduction
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AISSMS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, PUNE-01
Prepared by
SHIVANI KAILAS CHAUDHARI
M. Pharmacy
(Dept. of Quality Assurance)
2. Quality means those features of products
which meet customer needs and thereby
provide customer satisfaction. In this sense,
the meaning of quality is oriented to income.
Quality means freedom from deficiencies
freedom from errors that require doing work
over again (rework) or that result in field
failures, customer dissatisfaction, customer
claims, and so on.
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3. Product features that meet
customer needs
Freedom from deficiencies
1. Higher quality enables companies
to:
Increase customer Satisfaction
Make products salable
Meet competition
Increase market share
Provide sales income
Secure premium prices
2. The major effect is on sales.
3. Usually, higher quality costs more
1. Higher quality enables companies
to:
Reduce error rates
Reduce rework, waste
Reduce field failures, warranty
charges
Reduce customer dissatisfaction
Shorten time to put new products
on the market
Increase yields, capacity
Improve delivery performance
2. Major effect is on costs.
3. Usually, higher quality costs less
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5. SPORADIC PROBLEM CHRONIC PROBLEM
Sporadic means now and then chronic means all the time
A sporadic problem is a sudden,
adverse change in the status quo,
which requires remedy by restoring
the status quo.
A chronic problem is a long-standing
adverse situation, which requires
remedy by changing the status quo.
Sporadic problems are dramatic and
must receive immediate attention.
Chronic problems are not dramatic
because they occur for a long time &
are often difficult to solve, and are
accepted as inevitable
sporadic problems it means taking
corrective action on periodic
problems
For chronic problems, it means
achieving better & better levels of
performance each year,
Sporadic problems are attacked by
the control process.
Chronic problems use the
improvement process.
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