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Ladders of Abstraction – Quality Function Deployment
Columns labeled primary and secondary appear regularly in required quality deployment tables and quality characteristic deployment tables. Many of these tables include tertiary columns, as well. These labels are abstract values that have been used to establish a convenient hierarchy. The smaller the numerical value, the higher the item’s position…
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What kind of result and relationship does the implementation of work operations produce?
Read More »PQCDSM KPI Definitions. Part 3
Cost Production (Make) Cost per unit volume (tonne or ‘000 units) This measure allows monitoring of production cost development in order to generate improvement plans, set targets, and deliver manufacturing savings. Allows to trend and benchmark performance across plants and global sites. Production Cost / Unit of Volume= Production Cost /…
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Safety, Health, and Environment Total Recordable Frequency Rate Total Recordable Frequency Rate for employees is the sum of all the lost time accidents (LTA), restricted work cases (RWC), and all medical treatment cases (MTC) expressed as a rate per hundred thousand hours worked. The data reported should cover only each…
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