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  2. Cost of poor quality - Wikipedia

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    Cost of poor quality. Cost of poor quality (COPQ) or poor quality costs (PQC) or cost of nonquality, are costs that would disappear if systems, processes, and products were perfect. COPQ was popularized by IBM quality expert H. James Harrington in his 1987 book Poor-Quality Cost. [1] COPQ is a refinement of the concept of quality costs.

  3. Quality costs - Wikipedia

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    Quality costs. In process improvement efforts, quality costs tite or cost of quality (sometimes abbreviated CoQ or COQ[1]) is a means to quantify the total cost of quality -related efforts and deficiencies. It was first described by Armand V. Feigenbaum in a 1956 Harvard Business Review article.

  4. Video game crash of 1983 - Wikipedia

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    The video game crash of 1983 (known in Japan as the Atari shock) [1] was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985 in the United States. The crash was attributed to several factors, including market saturation in the number of video game consoles and available games, many of which were of poor quality.

  5. List of commercial failures in video games - Wikipedia

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    As a hit-driven business, the great majority of the video game industry's software releases have been commercial disappointments.In the early 21st century, industry commentators made these general estimates: 10% of published games generated 90% of revenue; [1] that around 3% of PC games and 15% of console games have global sales of more than 100,000 units per year, with even this level ...

  6. List of video games notable for negative reception - Wikipedia

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    The adult adventure game Lula 3D was criticized for its monotonous gameplay, poor puzzle designs, low-quality graphics (including animations, an inconsistent frame rate, and re-use of character models), its voice acting, the quality of its English translation, and low-brow humor that was too childish for its target audience.

  7. Taguchi loss function - Wikipedia

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    The Taguchi loss function is graphical depiction of loss developed by the Japanese business statistician Genichi Taguchi to describe a phenomenon affecting the value of products produced by a company. Praised by Dr. W. Edwards Deming (the business guru of the 1980s American quality movement), [1] it made clear the concept that quality does not ...

  8. Talk:Cost of poor quality - Wikipedia

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    Cost of poor quality. Unless I'm missing the point here, I believe your definition of the above mentioned subject to be incorrect. As defined: Cost of Poor Quality, or COPQ, can be defined as costs that would disappear if systems, processes, and products were not perfect . Should this read "were perfect" Ray S A Grant ( talk) 13:12, 28 February ...

  9. Comparison of digital and film photography - Wikipedia

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    More information may be recorded if a fine-grain film is used, while the use of poor-quality optics or coarse-grained film may yield lower image resolution. A 36 mm × 24 mm frame of ISO 100- speed film was initially estimated to contain the equivalent of 20 million pixels, [ 6 ] : 99 or approximately 23,000 pixels per square mm.