Click back to return to your reading Quality control The use of a series of planned measurements to determine whether quality standards are being met. Click back to return to your reading Quality council A steering committee of senior managers who are responsible for incorporating quality issues into an organization's strategic planning process and who coordinate the overall effort. Click back to return to your reading Queue A waiting line. The theory of the behavior of waiting lines. Robot A programmable machine designed to handle materials or tools in performing a variety of tasks.
Root cause The underlying reason for a problem.
Click back to return to your reading Rough-cut capacity planning Analysis of the master production schedule to determine its feasibility with respect to capacity limitations. A line graph in which data are plotted over time. Click back to return to your reading Scatter diagram A graphical representation of the relationship in the behavior of two variables. The process of establishing starting times and completion times for jobs. Click back to return to your reading Self-checking The practice of workers checking their own output for defects.