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MANAGEMENT OF QUALITY

After completing the lecture on Management of Quality, the POMA students should be able to understand the term quality and the importance of Quality. The student should be able to learn the Determinants of Quality, when they discuss Total Quality management also they should be able to identify the various costs associated with Quality. The students should also be able to appreciate the famous ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 quality systems, which are also actively seen in Pakistan. And last but not the least out of curiosity than academic interest the students should be aware of philosophies of
Quality Gurus.

Introduction

Quality Management can be understood only if we are able to understand the term quality, which is defined as

Quality is the ability of a product or service to consistently meet or exceed customer expectations.

Quality as determinant of Revenue has been often neglected, people tend to associate quality with high price of the product or item they want to purchase, historically speaking this is an incorrect statement. The debate between American and Japanese philosophy proves that quality is offered free of cost and is the prime source of revenue or profit.

• When the American industry in 70s and 80s talked about cost cutting and productivity improvement they did not paid heed to Quality Management, which was the “Holy Grail” for the Japanese Industry.
• When Japanese manufacturers entered and occupied the American Markets the only thing that made their products and services better than the Americans was the concept of Quality, which led to increase in the revenues and productivity of Japanese manufacturers.



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Summary

• Basic concepts
• Scheduling criteria
• Preemptive and non-preemptive algorithms
• First-Come-First-Serve scheduling algorithm

Basic Concepts

The objective of multiprogramming is to have some process running at all times, in order to maximize CPU utilization. In a uniprocessor system, only one process may run at a time; any other processes much wait until the CPU is free and can be rescheduled.

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