A GUIDE TO QUALITY COST ANALYSIS: QUALITY AND ASSURANCE

Abstract

The QUICO system covers the planning, installation, and use of quality cost data analysis. The basic idea is simply to operate a manufacturing unit or complex so that the total of quality related costs is a minimum. Quality related costs are made up of (1) expenses incurred because of not producing the highest possible quality, (2) expenditures made to create conditions resulting in high quality products, and (3) expenditures made to measure quality levels being produced and causes of deficiencies. Analysis of quality cost data provides direct pay-offs in reduction of resultant costs and the major sources are discussed. Secondary benefits come from use of the data as a measurement of the effectiveness of the quality assurance effort, as a motivant to workers who must produce the high quality, and as a management guidance tool.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 31, 1967
Accession Number
AD0683489

Entities

People

  • Donald E. Morgan
  • W. G. Ireson

Organizations

  • United States Assistant Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Audiovisual Aids
  • Contracts
  • Cost Reductions
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Processing
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Failure Analysis
  • Management Personnel
  • Manufacturing
  • Production
  • Quality Control
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Training

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Theoretical Analysis.