On the Quality Control and reduce costs
First, recognize quality cost
In discussing how the cost of quality control before we start to understand the cost of quality. What is the cost of quality? Enterprises to ensure and improve product quality, or quality of the product is substandard and pay the cost of quality. Cost of quality, not only to improve the quality of the actual costs incurred, but also though not actual expenditures, but has resulted in the loss.
Quality costs are a powerful company reduce other costs to ensure that the prevention cost, appraisal cost, internal cost of losses and the cost of external loss of four parts.
1. To prevent the cost of prevention into the specimen is the emergence of quality products for the prevention of accidents, to meet quality assurance standards and to further improve product quality level of all fees paid. Include the design, manufacture and quality system, and content.
2. Identification of the cost of appraisal cost is used to assess the product companies meet the requirements of the fees paid. These costs spent on the evaluation of current production, measurement and control. That is inspected and tested by standard procedures of raw materials, semi-finished products or processes of the quality of the expenses incurred. Including test planning, quality audit, inspection equipment and monitoring equipment maintenance and calibration, destructive experimental piece of supplies and labor costs and costs related services and equipment.
3. Internal loss within the loss cost the cost of the product the factory, due to quality problems and to pay various fees. Waste products include loss of fees, repair costs, or review the costs, downtime losses cost, quality, fault handling costs, loss of product quality degradation costs.
4. External cost External cost of losses is the loss of finished products, due to the Products to meet customer needs, resulting in product repair, replacement, claims, costs caused by lack of credit losses. Include service charges such claim or return the product transport costs, price cuts losses, corporate credit losses.
Second, the quality of the significance of cost control and reduction
Currently affected by economic crisis, production in the low profit era, not the lowest cost of quality, only the lower cost of quality. Some people liken the quality cost for the enterprise's "Gold Mountain mine." Means that, if the cost of the unnecessary loss of quality controlled, it will bring about economic benefits like a Jinshan.
China attaches great importance to quality and cost. As early as 1987, China will introduce a comprehensive management and quality of Japanese cost theory; established in 1994, the quality of economic cost analysis will be; 1991 "quality cost management" have come.
Quality control and reduce costs for enterprise development has important significance. In an increasingly competitive market economy cases, only one hand and business customers with one hand and quality, he will make a larger space for development, obtain greater profits.
Third, the quality of cost control and reduction steps
According to American Society for Quality and Statistics, in addition to raw material costs, total operating costs in the business at least 25% of the cost of quality is dominant, recessive quality cost is 3-4 times the cost of explicit quality. But if we reduce the cost of the gold business metaphor, then the lower cost of quality is the company's silver.
Reducing the cost of quality, enterprises often that reduce the product cost of raw materials is to reduce the cost of quality, or that have very strict requirements of customers, businesses can further reduce the cost of quality. In fact, as long as the quality control in accordance with reasonable procedures and steps, we can further improve product quality, reduce cost of quality.
Strict quality control process is an important aspect of product quality guarantee. Process quality, including process conditions for the activities and the activities of the quality of results. Process conditions for the activities, including the quality of personnel, materials, mechanical, environmental quality, process activities, the quality is the effect of each process related to the quality of finished product is meeting its objectives. These two aspects of quality are linked, must balance.
Quality control point into the new technology, new technology or new materials, human behavior, physical condition, construction sequence, technology gap, common quality problems, material quality and performance, the key operation.
Quality inspection process that uses pre-measured means and methods, view and check the process operation and product quality, while the measured results and the process of operating procedures and quality characteristics compared to the formation of technical indicators to determine whether the standards process .
Fourth, the quality of cost control and reduction methods
Reduce the cost of quality, is through prevention costs, appraisal costs and losses to reduce the cost of three to consider the overall cost of quality.