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Role Of Inspection In Product Quality Management Drive In Northern Noodles Ltd, Kaduna
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1.5 Scope of the Study
This research work is
focused on the role of inspection in product quality management drive in
Northern Noodles Limited, Kaduna, located along Kachia road, Chikun
Local Government Area, Kaduna. The research considered and covered the
period from 2011 and 2012. The searchlight was beamed on the Purchasing
Department, the Production Department, Quality Control and the
Administrative departments of the organization.
1.6 Research Questions
i) Who is responsible for inspection in the organization?
ii) What is the approach to materials specification in the organization?
iii) What method(s) of inspection does the organization adopts?
iv)
What preventive measures are put in place by the organization to ensure
that defective materials does not enter the production line?
v) What control tools does the organization used to ensure and sustain quality?
1.7 Definition of Terms
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Inspection: This describes a process of careful examination of
materials, services, component or a process or work product to determine
its conformity to set standards.
· Sourcing: This
is a purchasing procedure through which buyers seeks, survey and
evaluate suppliers, and determine policies relating to those who will
most suitably meet the requirement of the buying organization.
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Insourcing: This describes the process by which an organization takes
responsibility for providing services and conducting its operations
in-house or in other locations but by its own staff.
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Outsourcing: This gives or describes contracting out services and
operations that are usually conducted in-house to other firms that can
do them better, cheaper and faster.
· Efficiency: This implies the minimum used of resources to reach goals. That is, doing things right.
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Effectiveness: This means pursuing and reaching the appropriate goals.
In other words doing the right thing.
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Specification: This is the careful, detailed and distinct description of
an item, or service to be supplied in which the supplied item must
conform to.
· Standardization: The formulation and
evaluation at national and at company levels, to define and prescribe
the specified quality and/or performance characteristics of a material,
product and/or operations and service.
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Standards: Are a model, or general agreement of a rule established by
the authority, consensus or customers and used by various levels of
interests.
· Quality: Quality is the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfill requirements.
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Material: Anything that can be offered to the market for attention,
acquisition, use or consumption for the satisfaction of needs is
referred to as material.
· Purchasing: This term
in this context denotes the act of a function in an organization that is
responsible for the procuring of materials into the organization.
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Supplier: This refers to an organization or a person who supply or
releases goods or service to a buying organization.
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Defect: This is a situation where a component, material, product or
service does not meet its requirements or specification and needs to be
repaired or replaced or rejected.
· Productivity: This means efficient utilization of available resource at economic cost.
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Production: This is the rate of units produced in terms of machines,
labour, materials or any other effective basis.
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