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One of the shorter definitions of quality you have been introduced to is ‘conformance to requirements’ or ‘conformance to specification’. Although these definitions are now interpreted to cover their wider fields, initially they grew out of the need to manufacture goods to ‘the requirement’ or ‘the specification’; really quality in production.
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© 1993 Michael J. Fox
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Fox, M.J. (1993). Quality in production. In: Quality Assurance Management. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7140-1_5
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