Abbreviations
- ABC
Activity-Based Costing
- APQP
Advanced Product Quality Planning
- AQ+
Aeroquip Quality Plus
- AQA
Australian Quality Award
- AQAP
Allied Quality Assurance Publications
- AQL
Acceptable Quality Level
- ASI
American Supplier Institute
- ASQ
American Society for Quality
- B2B
Business-to-Business
- BCS
British Calibration Service
- BEX
Business Excellence
- BPM
Business Process Management
- BPR
Business Process Re-engineering
- BQF
British Quality Foundation
- BSI
British Standards Institution
- BSS
British Standards Society
- BU
Business Unit
- CAD
Computer-Aided Design
- CAM
Computer-Aided Manufacture
- CANDO
Cleanliness, Arrangement, Neatness, Discipline and Orderliness
- CEDAC
Cause-and-Effect Diagrams with Addition of Cards
- CEN
European Committee for Standardization
- CENELEC
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
- CEO
Chief Executive Officer
- CIPD
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
- CPA
Critical Path Analysis
- Cpk
Process Capability Index
- CRIP
Catch, Reflect, Improve, Pass
- CRISP
Catch-Reflect-Improve-Scrutinize-Pass
- CSA
Canadian Standards Association
- CWQC
Company-Wide Quality Control
- DFSS
Design for Six Sigma
- DHU
Defects per Hundred Units
- DMAIC
Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control
- DMADV
Define, Measure, Analyse, Design and Verify
- DOE
Design of Experiments
- DPA
Departmental Purpose Analysis
- DPMO
Defects Per Million Opportunities
- DPU
Defects Per Unit
- DTI
Department of Trade and Industry
- EC
European Commission
- EDI
Electronic Data Interchange
- EFQM
European Foundation for Quality Management
- EMAS
Eco-Management and Audit System
- EMS
Environmental Management System ...
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