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Index of quality engineering articles
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A
American Customer Satisfaction Index
(ACSI)
active listening
affinity diagram
Automotive Industry Action Group
(AIAG)
American Society for Quality
(ASQ)
Audit
Appraisal
B
Bar chart
Benchmarking
C
change management
Code of Ethics
Continuous quality improvement
Cost of Poor Execution (COPE)
Cost of quality
(CoQ)
Cost of poor quality
(COPQ)
Customer satisfaction research
D
Define, measure, analyze, improve and control (
DMAIC
)
E
European Foundation for Quality Management
(EFQM)
F
Five whys
G
Groupthink
Gantt chart
H
House of Quality
Human reliability assessment
(HRA)
I
Incrementalism
J
Joseph M. Juran
K
Kaizen
L
Lean manufacturing
M
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
Monitoring and evaluation
Muda (Japanese term)
N
National Council on Physical Distribution Management (NCPDM)
Next operation as customer(NOAC)
Nine windows
Nominal group technique
O
Organizational culture
Overall equipment effectiveness
(OEE)
P
Plan, Do, Check, Act (
PDCA
)
Poka-yoke
Process decision program chart
(PDPC)
Process improvement
Q
Quality assurance
(QA)
Quality by design
(QbD)
Quality function deployment
(QFD)
Quality improvement
(QI)
Quality management
(QM)
Quality storyboard
R
Risk management
Root cause analysis
S
Suppliers, inputs, process, outputs and customers (
SIPOC
)
Six Sigma
T
Tactical planning
U
Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers
(JUSE)
V
Voice of the customer
W
Warranty
Waste
X
Y
Z
Zero Defects