Category: Q

  • Quiche

    Quiche

    A savory custard made with ham and/or other meats, vegetables. cheese, and eggs are baked in a pie crust and served hot. The word quiche derives from the German kuchen, meaning little cake. Had English acquired the name of this savoury custard directly from German, its present spelling and pronunciation would be much closer to…

  • Queue time

    The time a job is waiting in the line for the availability capacity, that is. a surge step m the process.  

  • Quantitative factor

    A factor which can be arranged in order of magnitude, such as, temperature, pressure, velocities, pressures, or an item measured on a numerical scale.  

  • Quality function deployment

    A system that pays special attention to the wants of the customers.  

  • Quality evaluation

    To describe or appraise the worth of a product according to some standard or specification, generally the taking of measurements of a product in a laboratory.  

  • Quality control

    Regulation of processes and operations to some standard or specification; a tool for the production worker to control the unit operation and/or line to some standard or specification. The sum of all the activities which prevent unwanted change in quality. In the health care setting, quality control requires a repeated series of feedback loops which…

  • Quality circle

    A group of people who meet together on a regular basis to identify, analyze, and solve quality and other problems in their area of work. A group of employees from different levels of an organisation who meet regularly to discuss ways of improving the quality of its products or services. A group, formerly called a…

  • Quality audit

    To verify or examine products or processes for compliance to specifications.  

  • Quality

    That combination of attributes or characteristics of a product that have significance in determining the degree of acceptability of that product by the user. The nature, kind, or character of someone or something. The nature, kind or character of someone or something; hence, the degree or grade of excellence possessed by the person or thing.…

  • Qualitative factor

    A factor in which the different levels cannot be arranged in order of magnitude, such as batches, methods, or materials produced in different plants.