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Efforts and methods for improvement of quality are . . . fragmented, with no overall competent guidance, no integrated system for continual improvement. Everyone, regardless of his job, needs a chance to learn and develop. In a climate of fragmentation, people go off in different directions, unaware of what other people are doing.
—W. Edwards Deming
Prevention is any action that stops something from happening: an action or actions taken to stop somebody from doing something or to stop something from happening.[1]
[1] Microsoft® Encarta® 2007.
In this defect prevention technique, a prevention is a noun and is defined as an entry in a defect tracking system describing a preventive technique that can help eliminate a ...
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