Expanding the Definition of Quality Costs Beyond the Conformance and Nonconformance Dichotomy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando Elizondo-Noriega ◽  
Mario G. Beruvides ◽  
David Guemes-Castorena
Keyword(s):  
Quality Costs ◽  
Definition Of

Integrative Technology and Inspection Planning—A Case Study in Medical Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fritz Klocke ◽  
Johannes Müller ◽  
Patrick Mattfeld ◽  
Jan Kukulies ◽  
Robert H. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Medical Industry ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Technology Planning ◽  
Efficient Design ◽  
Inspection Planning ◽  
Quality Costs ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Manufacturing History

In most trendsetting industries like the aerospace, automotive and medical industry functionally critical parts are of highest importance. Due to strict legal requirements regarding the securing of the functionality of high-risk parts, both production costs and quality costs contribute significantly to the manufacturing costs. Thus, both types of costs have to be taken into consideration during the stage of technology planning. Due to the high variety of potential interactions between individual component properties as well as between component properties and manufacturing processes, the analysis of the influence of the manufacturing history on an efficient design of inspection processes and inspection strategies is extremely complex. Furthermore, the effects of inspection strategies and quality costs on the planning of manufacturing process sequences cannot be modeled to date. As a consequence, manufacturing and inspection processes are designed separately and thus a high cost reduction potential remains untapped. In this paper, a new approach for an integrative technology and inspection planning is presented and applied to a case study in medical industry. At first, existing approaches with regard to technology and inspection planning are reviewed. After a definition of relevant terms, the case study is introduced. Following, an approach for an integrative technology and inspection planning is presented and applied to the case study. In the presented approach, the complex causalities between technology planning, manufacturing history, and inspection planning are considered to enable a cost-effective production process and inspection sequence design.

scholarly journals Integración de marcos de trabajo para desarrollo de software: Scrum, PSP e ISO 25000 [Integrating software development frameworks: Scrum, PSP and ISO25000]

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jhon Alexander Holguín Barrera
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Software Industry ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Single Application ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprise ◽  
Quality Costs ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
Definition Of

Actualmente la industria del software tiene grandes retos para la construcción y mantenimiento del software en términos de calidad, costos y tiempo. Para esto se han generado diversidad de metodologías, marcos de trabajo, normas y modelos que permiten afrontar estos retos, pero es complejo que la aplicación de solo un referente logre cumplir con todo lo requerido, y por lo general se toman elementos de varios modelos o metodologías. El presente estudio contiene la definición de un proceso de desarrollo de software en una PYME a través de la integración de varios de estos marcos de trabajo (Scrum, PSP e ISO 25000) analizados bajo los lineamientos dados por SWEBOK y apoyados por tecnicas como GQM, que permitan dar un aporte positivo en el cumplimiento de estos objetivos.Palabras Claves: ISO25000, Procesos, PSP, Scrum, SWEBOKCurrently, the software industry has big challenges for the construction and maintenance of software in terms of quality, costs and time. For this the industry generated diversity of methodologies, frameworks, standards and models that meet these challenges, but is complex to accomplish this with the single application of only one reference that meets the goal, usually elements from various models and methodologies are taken. This study contains the definition of a software development process inside of a SME (Small and Medium Enterprise), through the integration of several of this frameworks (Scrum, PSP, and ISO25000) analyzed under the guidelines given by SWEBOK and supported by techniques such as GQM, that allow to make a positive contribution to meet this goals.Keywords: ISO25000, Process, PSP, Scrum, SWEBOK

scholarly journals The impact of modern management accounting techniques in evaluating the financial performance of Iraqi companies

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 619
Author(s):  
Suad Adnan Noman
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Managerial Accounting ◽  
Modern Management ◽  
Quality Costs ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

The goal of current research to study and analyze management accounting tools in terms of concept and species, as well as the definition of the financial performance of economic units, and to highlight the importance of modern management accounting tools as a system of information serves the company researched management in determining the direction by seeking to produce and deliver a product that contribute to it all value chain activities in the company conveyed to quality desired the customer at a price that accept and be prepared to pay compared to the various presentations offered by competitors existing in the local market, has focused problematic research on the impact of managerial accounting tools to improve the financial performance indicators, which included research in his theoretical most modern management accounting tools, the modalities of the financial performance of economic units of measure, the General Company for the manufacture of batteries chosen as one of the formations and the Ministry of industry as a sample to the research, the research sample for the years (2012 - 2016) of the sections of planning and production data were collected from the company, were analyzed according to modern trends of management accounting has been reached Find a set of results, most notably the results of the analysis of indicators of the company research sample a significant reduction in the actual production levels for the annual energies planned levels during the period from 2012 until the end of 2016, while bypassing the actual defective on the allowable ratio in the stages of the production process all of the battery liquid ratios, this has led to a rise in the total actual costs of production, especially of them low-quality costs (represented by the failure of internal and external failure costs).

Integrative Technology and Inspection Planning: A Case Study in Medical Industry

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fritz Klocke ◽  
Johannes Müller ◽  
Patrick Mattfeld ◽  
Jan Kukulies ◽  
Robert H. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Medical Industry ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Technology Planning ◽  
Efficient Design ◽  
Inspection Planning ◽  
Quality Costs ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Manufacturing History

In most trendsetting industries like the aerospace, automotive and medical industry functionally critical parts are of highest importance. Due to strict legal requirements regarding the securing of the functionality of high-risk parts, both production costs and quality costs contribute significantly to the manufacturing costs. Thus, both types of costs have to be taken into consideration during the stage of technology planning. Due to the high variety of potential interactions between individual component properties as well as between component properties and manufacturing processes, the analysis of the influence of the manufacturing history on an efficient design of inspection processes and inspection strategies is extremely complex. Furthermore, the effects of inspection strategies and quality costs on the planning of manufacturing process sequences cannot be modeled to date. As a consequence, manufacturing and inspection processes are designed separately and thus a high cost reduction potential remains untapped. In this paper a new approach for an integrative technology and inspection planning is presented and applied to a case study in medical industry. At first, existing approaches with regard to technology and inspection planning are reviewed. After a definition of relevant terms the case study is introduced. Following, an approach for an integrative technology and inspection planning is presented and applied to the case study. In the presented approach the complex causalities between technology planning, manufacturing history and inspection planning are considered to enable a cost-effective production process and inspection sequence design.

Introductory paper

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
W. W. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Line Intensity ◽  
Classification Scheme ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Spectral Classification ◽  
Dimensional Array ◽  
Rr Lyrae ◽  
Metallic Line ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
Parameter Varying ◽  
Definition Of

1. The definition of “normal” stars in spectral classification changes with time; at the time of the publication of theYerkes Spectral Atlasthe term “normal” was applied to stars whose spectra could be fitted smoothly into a two-dimensional array. Thus, at that time, weak-lined spectra (RR Lyrae and HD 140283) would have been considered peculiar. At the present time we would tend to classify such spectra as “normal”—in a more complicated classification scheme which would have a parameter varying with metallic-line intensity within a specific spectral subdivision.

2.2. Working Group 2: Conceptual Definitions of Reference Coordinate Systems for Earth Dynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 21-26
Keyword(s):  
Coordinate System ◽  
Working Group ◽  
General Character ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Reference Coordinate System ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Earth Dynamics

An ideal definition of a reference coordinate system should meet the following general requirements:1. It should be as conceptually simple as possible, so its philosophy is well understood by the users.2. It should imply as few physical assumptions as possible. Wherever they are necessary, such assumptions should be of a very general character and, in particular, they should not be dependent upon astronomical and geophysical detailed theories.3. It should suggest a materialization that is dynamically stable and is accessible to observations with the required accuracy.

Symbiotic Stars at Optical, Infrared and Radio Wavelengths

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 125-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Regime ◽  
Type Star ◽  
Stellar Systems ◽  
Symbiotic Stars ◽  
Lower Excitation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Original Type

No paper of this nature should begin without a definition of symbiotic stars. It was Paul Merrill who, borrowing on his botanical background, coined the termsymbioticto describe apparently single stellar systems which combine the TiO absorption of M giants (temperature regime ≲ 3500 K) with He II emission (temperature regime ≳ 100,000 K). He and Milton Humason had in 1932 first drawn attention to three such stars: AX Per, CI Cyg and RW Hya. At the conclusion of the Mount Wilson Ha emission survey nearly a dozen had been identified, and Z And had become their type star. The numbers slowly grew, as much because the definition widened to include lower-excitation specimens as because new examples of the original type were found. In 1970 Wackerling listed 30; this was the last compendium of symbiotic stars published.

Immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in positively stained frozen sections

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
K. T. Tokuyasu
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
Thin Layers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Staining ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ultrathin Frozen Sections ◽  
Definition Of

During the past investigations of immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in ultrathin frozen sections, we found that the degree of negative staining required to delineate u1trastructural details was often too dense for the recognition of ferritin particles. The quality of positive staining of ultrathin frozen sections, on the other hand, has generally been far inferior to that attainable in conventional plastic embedded sections, particularly in the definition of membranes. As we discussed before, a main cause of this difficulty seemed to be the vulnerability of frozen sections to the damaging effects of air-water surface tension at the time of drying of the sections.Indeed, we found that the quality of positive staining is greatly improved when positively stained frozen sections are protected against the effects of surface tension by embedding them in thin layers of mechanically stable materials at the time of drying (unpublished).

Initial Polymerization Sites Indicated During Mitochondrial Oxidation of Diaminobenzidine after Toluene Treatment

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 408-409
Author(s):  
W. A. Shannon ◽  
M. A. Matlib
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Permeability ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Precise Definition ◽  
Cytochemical Localization ◽  
Oxidative Reaction ◽  
Mitochondrial Oxidation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Exogenous Substrates

Numerous studies have dealt with the cytochemical localization of cytochrome oxidase via cytochrome c. More recent studies have dealt with indicating initial foci of this reaction by altering incubation pH (1) or postosmication procedure (2,3). The following study is an attempt to locate such foci by altering membrane permeability. It is thought that such alterations within the limits of maintaining morphological integrity of the membranes will ease the entry of exogenous substrates resulting in a much quicker oxidation and subsequently a more precise definition of the oxidative reaction.The diaminobenzidine (DAB) method of Seligman et al. (4) was used. Minced pieces of rat liver were incubated for 1 hr following toluene treatment (5,6). Experimental variations consisted of incubating fixed or unfixed tissues treated with toluene and unfixed tissues treated with toluene and subsequently fixed.

Application of Scanning Electron Microscopy to Medical Research

1969 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 12-13
Author(s):  
J. D. Hutchison
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Prosthetic Heart Valve ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Mechanism Of Failure ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Scanning Electron

When the transmission electron microscope was commercially introduced a few years ago, it was heralded as one of the most significant aids to medical research of the century. It continues to occupy that niche; however, the scanning electron microscope is gaining rapidly in relative importance as it fills the gap between conventional optical microscopy and transmission electron microscopy.IBM Boulder is conducting three major programs in cooperation with the Colorado School of Medicine. These are the study of the mechanism of failure of the prosthetic heart valve, the study of the ultrastructure of lung tissue, and the definition of the function of the cilia of the ventricular ependyma of the brain.

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