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Quality council

Leadership group guiding the implementation of quality or Six Sigma within an organization; establishes, reviews, and supports the progress of quality improvement teams.

Quality

A broad concept and/or discipline involving degree of excellence; a distinguished attribute or nature; conformance to specifications; measurable standards of comparison so that applications can be consistently directed toward business goals.

Quality assurance, or QA

Discipline (or department) of maintaining product or service conformance to customer specifications; primary tools are inspection and SPC.