Items tagged with: QM

Terms

• Collaboration
• Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Process
• Body of Knowledge
• Stigmergic Information System

Definitions

• Quality: "Quality in business, engineering and manufacturing has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority or superiority of something; it is also defined as fitness for purpose. Quality is a percept..."
• Quality Assurance: "Often used interchangeably with quality control (QC), it is a wider concept that covers all policies and systematic activities implemented within a quality system. QA frameworks include (1) determi..."
• Quality Management: "Management activities and functions involved in determination of quality policy and its implementation through means such as quality planning and quality assurance (including quality control)."
• Software Quality Assurance (SQA): "SQA processes provide assurance that the software products and processes in the project life cycle conform to their specified requirements by planning, enacting, and performing a set of activities ..."
• Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Process: "Multi-Disciplinary Engineering processes include sequences of steps for software and systems development from the different perspectives of involved stakeholders and experts of related fields."
• Engineering Process Analysis: "Engineering Process Analysis focuses on the systematic analysis of engineering processes based on defined workflows and/or data. Engineering Process Analysis is the foundation for process improveme..."
• Product Improvement: "In context of software and automation systems engineering products, product improvement refers to the creation of new and modified versions of the product compared to previous versions, e.g., featu..."
• Engineering Process Improvement: "Engineering Process Improvement focuses on (a) identifying and analyzing improvement and optimization options related to engineering processes, (b) implementing actions, (c) verifying the impact of..."
• Process Improvement: "Process Improvement focuses on (a) identifying and analyzing improvement and optimization options of defined processes, (b) implementing improvement actions, (c) verifying the impact of the improve..."
• Engineering Process: "The engineering design process is a methodical series of steps that engineers use in creating functional products and processes. "
• Collaboration: "Working with others to do a task and to achieve shared goals"
• Business Process Modeling (BPM): "Business process modeling (BPM) in systems engineering is the activity of representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current process may be analyzed or improved. The Business Process Mode..."
• Effectiveness: "Accuracy and completeness with which users achieve specified goals"
• Efficiency: "Resources expended in relation to the accuracy and completeness with which users achieve goals"
• Complexity: "Complexity is generally used to characterize something with many parts where those parts interact with each other in multiple ways"