Cost of Quality

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COST OF POOR QUALITY

QUALITY COSTS

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COMPANY-WIDE ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY

* Cost of Poor Quality

* Standing in the Market Place

* Quality culture in the organisation

* Operation of the company quality system


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COST OF POOR QUALITY
• Internal Failure Cost : These are the costs associated
with defects that are found prior to transfer of
product to customer. These costs would disappear if
no defects existed in the product before shipment.

Categories of Internal failure costs


• Scrap(overhead on defective products)
• Rework
• Failure analysis
• Scrap and rework supplies
• 100% sorting inspection( due to very high levels of defectives)
• Reinspection and retesting (after rework)

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• External Failure Costs: These costs are associated with
defects that are found after product is shipped to the
customer.
Examples:
• Warranty Charges
• Complaint adjustment
• Returned Material (Replacement of defective products)
• Allowances : Costs of concessions made to customers
due to substandard product being accepted by the
customer as is or to conforming product that does not
meet fitness for use specifications.

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• Appraisal Costs: These are the costs incurred in
determining degree of conformance to quality
requirements
Examples :
• Incoming inspection and testing
• In-process inspection and testing
• Final Inspection and testing
• Product quality audits
• Maintaining quality of testing equipment
• Inspection and testing of materials and services (e.g.,
power)
• Evaluation of stock

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Prevention Costs: These are costs incurred in keeping
failure and appraisal costs to a minimum.

Examples:
• Quality Planning
• New -Product review
• Process control
• Quality Audits
• Supplier quality evaluation (Vendor Rating Index,etc)
• Training

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COSTS OF POOR QUALITY
• Internal failure Costs
• External Failure Costs 80%
• Appraisal Costs
15%
• Prevention Costs
5%

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How to make upper management realize these costs
of Quality?

• Quality Costs as percentage of Sales


• Quality Costs compared to profits
• Quality Costs as percentage of cost of goods
sold
• Quality costs as percentage of total
manufacturing cost
• Effect of Cost of quality on BEP

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Hidden Costs of Quality
• Lost Sales
• Process downtime
• Extra Inventory
• Damaged goods
• Overtime to correct errors
• Loss of goodwill
• Paperwork errors
• Delays
• Obsolete Inventory
• Incorrect order Shipped
• Extra Process capacity
• Premium Freight Costs
• Customer Allowances
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OPTIMUM QUALITY COST

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TOTAL QUALITY COST CURVE

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