Publication Date

1-1-1995

Abstract

Modeling is used to explore the costs of inspection relative to other costs in the ZQC domain. Results show that the failsafing or the necessary inspection needed for 100% inspection must be relatively low with respect to repair costs or traditional inspection.

Document Type

Article

Keywords

failsafing devices, inspection economics, zero quality control (ZQC), paka-yoke, mistake-proofing, statistical process control (SPC)

Disciplines

Business

Part of

article

Extent

40 pages

Format

.pdf

Rights

The files in this collection are protected by copyright law. No commercial reproduction or distribution of these files is permitted without the written permission of Southern Methodist University, Cox Business School. These files may be freely used for educational purposes, provided they are not altered in any way, and Southern Methodist University is cited. For more information, contact ncds@smu.edu.

Language

English

Included in

Business Commons

Share

COinS