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Cost of Quality
Cost of Quality
Cost of Quality
QUALITY COSTS
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COMPANY-WIDE ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY
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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?
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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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