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Six Sigma Basics: Outcome Measurement of Process Performance
Six Sigma Quality Management provides a general goal for process performance -six sigmas of process variation should fit within the tolerance limits or quality requirement for the product. Given this goal, it is important to measure process performance to determine whether improvement is needed. There are two different methodologies -...
Tags: Measurement, Performance, Westgard QC, Six Sigma Quality Management, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Performance Management, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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Six Sigma Basics-Process Improvement,Goals and Measurements
The article highlights how six sigma can be helpful in process improvement. Six Sigma is about process improvement with emphasis on the general goal of achieving six-sigma process performance and the use of quantitative techniques to measure the actual performance of a process. Six Sigma provides a new...
Tags: Westgard QC, Six Sigma, Process Improvement, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
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Trends in Laboratory Quality Management
The article highlights the trends in Laboratory Quality Management. Healthcare organizations have caught the bug for new management trends. It's probably the inevitable result of healthcare becoming a business and adopting modern business techniques - marketing and advertising, quality assurance. Quality assurance is a more recent management practice that began...
Tags: Quality Management, Health Care, Total Quality Management, Westgard QC, Quality, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Business Operations, It Operations
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Assuring Quality through Total Quality Management 2
The articles talks about adopting a framework for Total Quality Management with reference to laboratories. The framework involves quality laboratory processes, quality control, quality assessment, quality improvement, quality planning, and quality goals.. There is a need to make quality planning quick and easy. The time to be saved is often...
Tags: Quality Control, Total Quality Management, Westgard QC, Quality, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Business Operations, It Operations
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Total Quality Control Strategies
This article is the "blue crayon" to help you identify hazardous situations where analytical quality is difficult to manage and to give you some ideas on what to do in those situations. It explains the need for TQC strategy and provides the guidelines for the same. Current QC practices tend...
Tags: Quality Control, Westgard QC, Quality, Business Operations
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Six Sigma Staffing Strategies
"The article is about the six sigma staffing strategies for healthcare laboratories and defines different metrics with graphs that help to understand. One interesting application of Six Sigma Quality Management is to use the Sigma metrics calculated for testing processes to guide the deployment of laboratory personnel. High sigma values...
Tags: Westgard QC, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
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The Need for a System of Quality Standards for Modern Quality Management
The management of analytical quality depends on the careful evaluation of the imprecision and inaccuracy of laboratory methods and the application of statistical quality control procedures to detect medically important analytical errors that may occur during routine analysis. Different forms of quality standards have been recommended in this article. All...
Tags: Quality Management, Quality Control, Standards, Westgard QC, Quality Standard, Quality, Performance Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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Quality Goals, Requirements, And Specifications
This article is about understanding the current difficulties with defining "standards of quality", here's a common management problem. One is looking at a new, more reliable, higher-capacity, larger menu, faster, simpler-to-operate, and less costly analyzer. The practical purposes of these recommendations in this article is for quality goals, criteria...
Tags: Performance, Specification, Westgard QC, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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Assuring Quality through Total Quality Management
This article is about current quality assurance practices which mainly emphasizes on the assessment or measurement of quality, assuming that this interest and attention will work some magic to make quality happen. Unforunately, quality doesn't just happen! Production processes have to be carefully planned, monitored, and managed to assure quality...
Tags: Total Quality Management, Westgard QC, TQM Framework, Quality, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Business Operations, It Operations
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What's Wrong With Traditional Quality Control?
Traditional Quality Control, which was derived from the industrial statistical QC, continues to be the cornerstone of industrial production worldwide because it's a dependable, proven technique. It has also been a fundamental technique for improving the quality of test results in health-care laboratories. We need to recognize that it takes...
Tags: Technique, Quality Control, Westgard QC, Productivity, Quality, Business Operations
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Quality Control 2000: What Changes Are Needed?
The article asserts on all the capabilities that are available today -- they're just not available in an integrated package that brings complete automation to the QC process. They will, however, be necessary for the evolution of QC technology into the next millennium because the skills of those performing laboratory...
Tags: Quality Control, Technology, Westgard QC, Quality, Manufacturing, Business Operations
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The Do's And Don'ts Of Quality Control: Implications For Future QC Technology
Quality is like safety - an important issue, but not a readily marketable feature. Witness safety in automobiles, where government regulations have driven progress, not customer market demand. Consider safety in the workplace, where government regulations are required to protect workers from hazards and danger. Consider safety in the home,...
Tags: Government Regulation, Quality Control, Safety, Westgard QC, Quality, Regulations, Business Operations, Government
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Saving The Costs Of Poor Quality
Business and industry have demonstrated significant cost savings as a result of implementing Six Sigma Quality Management. Can you expect similar savings in healthcare applications? We think so and here's why.The implementation of Six Sigma will actually save you money that is already being spent due to poor quality. This...
Tags: Savings, Westgard QC, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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Six Sigma: Quality Design and Control Processes
Basic principle of Six Sigma Quality Management is that, well-designed processes are critical to achieving quality. It also follows that there must be a design process that has been carefully structured to plan the quality of new products or services. One well-established approach to process and product design is called...
Tags: Quality Function Deployment, Westgard QC, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
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QC- The Idea
The article presents a graphical tool for quality control. The product of a testing process is a numerical result. Unlike a physical product that can be inspected to assess whether it looks good or bad, you can't look at a test result and tell whether it's valid. 247 - what...
Tags: Result, Westgard QC, Quality, Productivity, Business Operations
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