Quality control

What is SOP?? A standard operating procedure, or SOP, is a set of step-by-step instructions compiled by an organization to help workers carry out complex routine operations. SOPs aim to achieve efficiency, quality output and uniformity of performance, while reducing miscommunication and failure to comply with industry regulations. 1.SCOPE This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) applies to staff and students using the Bench-Top pH Meter in the laboratories. 2.OBJECTIVE To describe the…

Process Control at Polaroid Introduction Polaroid corporation has two major products in their instant film department: peel-apart and integral. In peel-apart technology, the user has to physically peel apart the two sides of the film envelope. The integral technology was much simpler with the camera automatically ejects the frame and development process starts instantaneously. R2 building is used to manufacture integral films. This particular building was showing signs of trouble, hence the…

W. Edwards Deming Dr. W. Edwards Deming was a world-renowned expert on teaching that higher quality leads to higher productivity and lower costs. Dr. Deming was a trained statistician and an expert on improving the quality of war materials during WWII. He continued this expertise in quality and resource management after war ended, and was invited by the Japanese industrial leaders and engineers to Japan (Institute, 2005). The goal of the Japanese business leaders was to change the perception the…

Quality Management in the Air Force Quality management is an approach to business that attempts to attain continuous improvement through organizational wide efforts based on facts and data. Another focus of quality management is on processes on meeting the customer’s needs, both internal and external. Although quality management has been found in the private sector as an effort to remain competitive and profitable, over the last 30 years the federal government has been attempting to implement…

Quality is the customer’s understanding of how goods and services fit for their reason and how it fulfills stated and unexpressed description. Excellence is a talent or skill that surpasses ordinary standards. Quality and excellence goes hand in hand, as one cannot function without the other. Quality and excellence are defined as delivering a high standard of care to patients, providing for their needs using a clinical approach, which abides by safety standards and is supported by scientific…

My project closely resembles quality improvement as I am attempting to improve the surgical patient’s oxygenation status by performing deep breathing exercises while simultaneously weaning them off supplemental oxygen. Quality improvement “is aimed at improvement – measuring where you are, and figuring out ways to make things better” (“Contrasting QI and QA,” n.d.). Some principles of quality management and quality improvement is that it must operative in an organized structure, requires…

How is your quality of life? This is a question that many clinicians strive to answer with all patients across the continuum from acute to chronically ill. Clinicians have an insatiable drive for the answers about the clinical judgments they make each day. Moreover, clinicians hold very deep convictions based on the training and experience that can only be improved using convincing data or information. Clinical outcome is a health state of particular patients. Furthermore, clinical outcome is…

1. Introduction to Deming: Professor Dr. W. Edwards Deming was a famous and well-known statistician and management consultant widely celebrated for his statistical process control techniques, sampling techniques, and product quality administration. His methods and operation management techniques are widely praised and adopted in Japan. He is regarded as one of the main influencer and top contributor to Japan’s economic development in the post-war era between 1950 to 1960, this period is also…

which could affect the quality of health care services delivered to the patients. Therefore, effective conflict resolution strategies are essential to minimize any influence on the delivery of medical services to the patients. However, conflicts have the potential to be positive or negative; it depends on how the conflict is handled (Lipcamon & Mainwaring, 2004).…

What is Control? Control is a process that executives use in controlling. According to Richard L. Daft (Management, 1997, p. 639), control is an activity done to make sure that the organization' activities achieve the goals. This achievement indicates the progress or gives following information back to the executives as follows: What benefits the organization has obtained?; and What are the things that the organization should improve correctly if the outcomes are not what were planned?. Based…