Title: Learning Community: Cost of Quality Exercise
Course: PW-Course-Import-Test

Module 2

Another way to think about cost of quality is the maintenance that one does on their car. It is recommended that one does regular oil changes and other preventive maintenance on the car on a regular basis. This preventive maintenance is less expensive than fixing something that is broken later on. Skip a few oil changes and let your car engine run dry. The engine is going to seize up. It is cost prohibitive to replace your car engine than to perform those oil changes.

The same is true for manufacturing. Fix the issues that you see with the process and product earlier in the manufacturing process. Otherwise the fix later on is going to be more expensive.

Can you think of a situation relating to cost of quality you have come across? Write a few sentences on it and post it below.