The CSCMP has adopted The American Productivity & Quality Center ( APQC ) Process Classification Framework < sup > SM </ sup > a high-level, industry-neutral enterprise process model that allows organizations to see their business processes from a cross-industry viewpoint.

Quality control, or QC for short, is a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production.

The Secretary is advised by the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, an advisory committee, on " matters related to accreditation and to the eligibility and certification process for institutions of higher education.

Service providers, equipment manufacturers, and equipment suppliers rely on this data to ensure Quality of Service ( QoS ) through this conformance process.

Quality, in both analytic and synthetic manifestations, transformed the nature of work through a variety of movements ranging from total quality management to Six Sigma, then to more qualitative notions of business process reengineering ( Hammers and Champy, 1991 ).

* Quality assurance, the process or set of processes used to measure and assure the quality of a product

In spite of ARCNET's deterministic operation and historic suitability for real-time environments such as process control, the general availability of switched gigabit Ethernet and Quality of service capabilities in Ethernet switches has all but eliminated ARCNET today.

The Waste water undergoes an extensive treatment process based on parameters set by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality < ref >" Wastewater Treatment.

Quality checkers often are capable of doing other fansub jobs, or have some overall knowledge of the fansubbing process, as well as an eye for spotting various errors.

* Nestlé Purina received in 2010 the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for their excellence in the areas of leadership, customer and market focus, strategic planning, process management, measurement, analysis and knowledge management, workforce focus and results.

The American Productivity & Quality Center ( APQC ) Process Classification Framework ( PCF ) SM is a high-level, industry-neutral enterprise process model that allows organizations to see their business processes from a cross-industry viewpoint.

* Quality control, the process of meeting products and services to consumer expectations

Quality function deployment ( QFD ) is a “ method to transform user demands into design quality, to deploy the functions forming quality, and to deploy methods for achieving the design quality into subsystems and component parts, and ultimately to specific elements of the manufacturing process .”, as described by Dr. Yoji Akao, who originally developed QFD in Japan in 1966, when the author combined his work in quality assurance and quality control points with function deployment used in value engineering.

Quality targets for the transmission service are also reviewed and monitored in the regulatory process.

The process ( es ) which are managed with QA pertain to Total Quality Management.

In order to promote this process, a set of new policy instruments were implemented, such as CQAF ( Common Quality Assurance Framework ) and replacement EQARF ( European Quality Assurance Reference framework ), which shall allow for EC-wide comparison of QA in VET and building the capacities for a common quality assurance policy and quality culture in VET throughout Europe.

The Care Quality Commission have themselves implemented a re-registration process, completed in October 2010, which will result in a new form of regulation being outlined in April 2011.

Instead of immediately launching a process improvement effort to determine whether special causes are present, the Quality Engineer may temporarily increase the rate at which samples are taken from the process output until it's clear that the process is truly in control.

One of the bigger cases involved fastfood giant McDonald's claiming that it had originated the process of attaching unprotected words to the ' Mc ' prefix and was unhappy with Quality Inns International's intention of opening a chain of economy hotels to be called ' McSleep.

* Coleman and Verbruggen: A quality software process for rapid application development, Software Quality Journal 7, p. 107-1222 ( 1998 )

Groups belonging to the fraternity's Interfraternity Council ( Beta Theta Pi, Phi Gamma Delta, Gentlemen of Quality, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu and Tau Kappa Epsilon ) conduct a formal intake process during the winter term.

Quality control emphasizes testing of products to uncover defects and reporting to management who make the decision to allow or deny product release, whereas quality assurance attempts to improve and stabilize production ( and associated processes ) to avoid, or at least minimize, issues which led to the defect ( s ) in the first place.

By the early 1990s, the music associated with this experimentation had gained prominence with releases on a variety of record labels including Warp Records ( 1989 ), Black Dog Productions ( 1989 ), R & S Records ( 1989 ), Carl Craig's Planet E, Rising High Records ( 1991 ), Richard James's Rephlex Records ( 1991 ), Kirk Degiorgio's Applied Rhythmic Technology ( 1991 ), Eevo Lute Muzique ( 1991 ), General Production Recordings ( 1989 ), Soma Quality Recordings ( 1991 ), Peacefrog Records ( 1991 ), and Metamorphic Recordings ( 1992 ).

The Baldrige National Quality Program and the associated award were established by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Improvement Act of 1987 ( Public Law 100 – 107 ).

TSC was not associated with Quality Stores Inc.

The Air Quality Health Index provides a number from 1 to 10 + to indicate the level of health risk associated with local air quality.

The Air Quality Health Index provides a number from 1 to 10 + to indicate the level of health risk associated with local air quality.

One of the standards available for digital cable telephony, PacketCable, seems to be the most promising and able to work with the Quality of Service ( QOS ) demands of traditional analog Plain old telephone service ( POTS ) service.

All reputable gelatin manufacturers today follow the Quality Management System according to ISO 9001 to comply with all required physical, chemical, microbiological and technical production and quality standards.

Development Geography is the study of the Earth's geography with reference to the Standard of living and the Quality of life of its human inhabitants, study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities, across the Earth.

* Allied with Venus in honourable positions Saturn makes his subjects haters of women, lovers of antiquity, solitary, unpleasant to meet, unambitious, hating the beautiful, ... — Ptolemy, ' Of the Quality of the Soul ', 2nd century.

In 1989, the seal became gold and white, as it currently appears, with a shortened phrase, " Official Nintendo Seal of Quality ".

In 2009 OMG, together with the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon, launched the Consortium of IT Software Quality ( CISQ ).

Quality dropped but variety increased with the introduction of microwave ovens and freezer food.

* Quality time, is an informal reference to time spent with loved ones ( e. g., close family, partners or friends ) which is in some way important, special, productive or profitable

In Canada, the National Quality Institute presents the ' Canada Awards for Excellence ' on an annual basis to organisations that have displayed outstanding performance in the areas of Quality and Workplace Wellness, and have met the Institute's criteria with documented overall achievements and results.

** Freight Unit, which is currently developing the " London Freight Plan " and is involved with setting up and supporting a number of Freight Quality Partnerships covering key areas of London.

This information is coupled with the ALE address of the sending node and the channel the message was received on, and stored in the node's Link Quality Analysis ( LQA ) memory.

three models with the top Total Quality Index ( TQI ) score in their segments, including the Hyundai Azera, Entourage, Santa Fe.

Waitzman described an improvement of his protocol in RFC 2549, IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service ( 1 April 1999 ).

Quality of life should not be confused with the concept of standard of living, which is based primarily on income.

Near Letter Quality mode — informally specified as almost good enough to be used in a business letter — endowed dot-matrix printers with a simulated typewriter-like quality.

JVC would counter 1985's SuperBeta with VHS HQ, or High Quality.

Quality writing had a rhythm and regularity to the letters, with a " geometrical " order of the lines on the page.

An advertisement in 1720, described it as: "... a pretty open Place, especially at the upper end, where are four or five very large and well-built Houses, fit for Persons of Honour and Quality ; each House having a pleasant Prospect into St. James's Park, with a Tarras Walk.

#; Quality implementations: An implementation of a good algorithm ( or protocol ) with mistake ( s ) will not work.

Next, shortly after Thatcher left office, in July 1991, a new programme of market-testing of central government services began, with the White Paper Competing for Quality ( Cm 1730 ).

The Faculties Economics and Business joined with the Faculty of Engineering through their Graduate Schools have developed an MBA programme with dual degree in Universitat Pompeu Fabra with specializations in Finance, Human Resources, Strategic Communication, Marketing and Quality Control and a Master in Finance ; Masters programmes in Educational Management, Organizational Development and Behaviour, Information Technology Management, Systems Administration and Business Administration.