Six Sigma SPC's Quality Control Dictionary and Glossary
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Prevention Cost

Cost related to the activity of any hindrance in production or process approaches, quality planning, quality function deployment, and/or complete quality enhancement issues falling into a category of value adding activities. Most parts of a Six Sigma program is to prevent various types of costs from raising.

These costs may include the cost of insuring a quality product using a QA, (Quality Assurance) department to implement activities such as SPC, (statistical process control), quality inspections, gauge repeatability and reproducibility, and the like.

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