. Design/methodology/approach – The approach to honing a “quality instinct” involves developing visual literacy – learning to … look at art – and moving on to learning to discern differences in the quality of art objects. Findings – Consumers are …

standard. At the same time, the marketplace has become less tolerant of poor‐quality products and hidden maintenance costs … ongoing for the purpose of developing international quality standards. Also proposes an eight‐step framework that puts all 29 … management. Warns, however, that becoming ISO 9000 registered is only the first step to achieving consistent software quality.  …

Presents a new procedure for quality control and quality assurance in scenarios where several variables and attributes … is complemented by using Pareto charts, which determine the quality characteristics contributing the most to the number … quality problems, allowing the improvement actions to be taken at the right time and place. The key advantages of the proposed …

companies need to stay ahead of expensive quality or reliability fixes. This paper presents a new method that provides the …

feasible way to improve output quality. Operating in either a standby‐redundancy or an ongoing capacity, parallel production … quality is considerably higher. Although typical research in parallel systems assumes a known distribution to estimate the … therefore distribution free. Applying variables monitored during a previous production run in which quality is measured in a …

This paper shows that the current quality literature does not consider all factors that affect quality program … implementations. Employee perceptions of quality differ across organizational levels. It is clear that these differing perceptions of … quality affect the success of a quality program implementation. Therefore, we propose the use of Q methodology as an effective …

/practice construct. Reports the results of assessing three properties of measurement quality for these newly‐created measurement scales … this quality improvement intervention. Demonstrates the application and interpretation of the SPC implementation …