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Excerpt from The Control of Quality in Manufacturing

It is well-nigh impossible to pass a store window, or to ride in a street car, or to glance at the pages of a magazine without encountering the word quality. Yet there is no formal literature about quality in manufacturing nearly all Of our attention having been devoted to quantity. Therefore, in constructing this book the introductory chapters, I and II, discuss the general relationships Of quality to manufacturing.

When it comes to controlling quality, inspection plays a large part. Chapters III to XI, accordingly, are intended to insure a clear understanding of the various forms of inspection. In sketching the relationship Of inspection to the control Of the flow Of work in process, the idea Of plan ning with material in physical form is advanced as an advantageous extension of the usual planning systems.

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Excerpt from The Control of Quality in Manufacturing

There is an erroneous but wide-spread belief that quality and high cost go hand in hand. The existence of this feeling is readily explained, because it is the general practice to advertise quality as something worth paying for. From the purchasers standpoint this is very true, but it does not follow by any means that quality is costly to produce. Very high-grade "quality" products are often high priced, but lower grade and less expensive articles also possess their own quality standards.

In the factory, quality is a costly thing to neglect, yet it is the usual experience to find a disproportionate emphasis being placed upon quantity of output, in the effort to effect economies. Often this is not so much due to lack of proper intent as it is to the failure to realize what the quality approach means. To establish and maintain definite and sensible standards of quality requires care and thoroughness. These are the very things which remove obstacles to production and thus decrease costs - quite independently of whether the product is high grade or low grade, high priced or low priced.

In the following pages, presenting the results of an intensive study of quality in manufacturing, it has been the intention to show that the control of quality is the correct starting point for economy (as well as to obtain higher standards for their own sake), since if quality is under positive and continuous control, increase of output follows as a by-product advantage.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.