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Continuous Improvement of Quality
8.1 The Need for Continuous Improvement
As has already been pointed out in previous chapters, improving product
and service quality on a continuous basis is the key to improving customer
satisfaction, increasing productivity, and remaining competitive in the mar-
ketplace� Opportunities always exist in productive enterprises for making
improvements to the quality of products and services by using the resources
already available� Many corporate managers believe that problems relat-
ing to quality can only be resolved by investing more capital to buy newer
equipment, with all possible automation and the