Sunday, October 1, 2017

The Costs of Quality

The Costs of Quality

There are three cost of quality. those are
  • Appraisal costs
  • Prevention costs
  • Failure costs

Appraisal costs

Costs of activities designed to ensure quality or uncover defects
- Measuring, evaluating, & auditing materials, parts, products, & services

Prevention costs 

Costs of preventing defects from occurring
- Planning & admin system, work with vendor, training, control procedure etc.

Failure costs 

Costs caused by defective parts or products or by faulty services
  • Internal failures 
- Failures discovered during production

  • External failures 
- Failures discovered after delivery to the customer



Return on quality (ROQ): Approach to evaluate financial return of investment in quality.

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