QUALITY ASSURANCE AS A STRAGETIC APPROACH TO MINIMISE MAINTENANCE COST.

Autor: ADEDOKUN, G., AJIBOYE, T. K., OYENIRAN, O. R.
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Zdroj: Acta Technica Corviniensis - Bulletin of Engineering; Oct-Dec2014, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p55-60, 6p
Abstrakt: Entrepreneur's primary objective is to firmly established itself, maximize profit and minimize maintenance cost of its low-cost best quality products that will generate high demand while maintaining a continuous focus on cost-containment and operating efficiencies. This objective can only be achieved if the products' quality meets standard demand of end users. Many approaches to quality control are not effective. Nonconformities in the factory testing are caused basically by excessive process variation and mistakes. Some approaches to quality control can effectively control process variation, but it cannot prevent most mistakes because mistakes are frequently the dominant source of nonconformities. Since maintenance cost of any product is inversely proportional to its quality;hence, the quality and maintenance of any products cannot be over emphasized to attract their high demand. Experience shows many industrial activities collapsed when they were expected to be at the peak of their production performances and theoutcome effect is that, they start to run at a huge loss when they were expected to make profit. Investments on structures will have impact on industrialization when the trend leading to this collapse could be reversed in order to enjoy the full benefits derived from it. Meanwhile, the only strategic approach to minimize maintenance cost is to maximize the quality. An attempt has been made in this paper to discuss maintenance cost minimization from the basics that detect mistakes and enable corrections before nonconformities are generated, achieving the highest degree of quality at minimum maintenance cost. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index