GMS401 FINAL EXAM PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Quality - Answer️️ -the ability of a product or service to meet
customer needs
4 Categories of Cost of Quality - Answer️️ -1. Prevention costs
2. Appraisal costs
3. Internal failure
4. External costs
Prevention costs - Answer️️ -r...
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GMS401 FINAL EXAM PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Quality - Answer✔️✔️-the ability of a product or service to meet
customer needs
4 Categories of Cost of Quality - Answer✔️✔️-1. Prevention costs
2. Appraisal costs
3. Internal failure
4. External costs
Prevention costs - Answer✔️✔️-reducing the potential for defects
(training)
Appraisal costs - Answer✔️✔️-evaluating products, parts and services
(testing, inspection)
Internal failure - Answer✔️✔️-producing defective parts or service
before delivery (rework, scrap, downtime)
External costs - Answer✔️✔️-costs that occur after delivery of
defective parts or services (returned goods, liability, costs to society)
ISO 9000 - Answer✔️✔️-A set of quality standards developed by the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Focus is to
establish quality management procedures through leadership,
detailed documentation, work instructions and record keeping.
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ISO 14000 - Answer✔️✔️-A series of environmental management
standards that contain 5 core elements: environment management,
auditing, performance evaluation, labelling and life cycle
assessment
Total Quality Management (TQM) - Answer✔️✔️-management of an
entire organization so that it excels in all aspects of products and
services that are important to the customer
Deming's 14 points for implementing quality improvement -
Answer✔️✔️-1. create consistency of purpose
2. lead to promote change
3. build quality into the product
4. build long-term relationships based on performance
5. continuously improve product, quality and service
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5. control (the new processes to make sure new performance is
maintained)
Employee Empowerment - Answer✔️✔️-enlarging employee jobs so
that the added responsibility and authority is moved to the lowers
level possible in the organization
Quality circle - Answer✔️✔️-a group of employees meeting regularly
with a facilitator to solve work-related problems in their work area
Benchmarking - Answer✔️✔️-selecting demonstrated standard of
performance that represents the very best performance for a
process or an activity
Steps to developing benchmarks - Answer✔️✔️-1. determine what to
benchmark
2. form a benchmark team
3. identify benchmarking partners
4. collect and analyze benchmarking information
5. take action to match or exceed the benchmark
3 ways JIT is related to quality - Answer✔️✔️-1. JIT cuts the cost of
quality
2. JIT improves quality
3. better quality means less inventory and a better, easier-to-employ
JIT system
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