Glossary of Terms
BASIC TERMS
Infrastructure
The set of services, equipment, and facilities necessary to run an organization.
Flow Chart
It is a chart used when the path followed by a product or service needs to be explained so that deviations can be revealed.
Sub Process (Micro Process)
It is a process that provides input to the main process.
Macro Process (Main Process)
It is the main process in an organization. This process may contain more than one sub-process. The outputs of these sub-processes constitute the input of the main process.
Dependence
It is a term used to describe availability performance and its influencing factors, reliability performance, maintainability performance and sustainment performance.
Document
These are documents showing compliance with standards and technical regulations issued by private or public laboratories, inspection and certification bodies authorized by authorized public institutions and organizations to issue documents in mandatory fields within the framework of the relevant legislation, depending on the field of activity, and documents showing compliance with standards and technical regulations outside of mandatory fields within the framework of the relevant legislation.
Certification
These are the methods and activities carried out by an organization equipped with the necessary authorities to determine, verify and approve the conformity of the process, system, product or service quality to the necessary requirements and standards.
Five S Philosophy
The first of the Five S's is cleanliness ( seiso ), the others are arrangement ( seiton ), standardization ( seietsu ), classification ( seiri ) and discipline ( shitsuke ). The aim is to be clean, orderly, disciplined and to classify and standardize the steps in order to ensure improvement in the workplace.
Working Environment
The set of conditions under which the work is done
Auditor
It is the person whose responsibilities are to understand the purpose of the audit, to carry it out, to report the audit results, to audit the results of the corrective actions taken when requested by the client, to preserve any document related to the audit or to ensure that it is kept confidential, to plan the audited organization effectively and efficiently and to subject it to an unbiased examination, and to comply with the determined audit standards while performing these.
Auditing
Quality System Audit
Experiment
Determination of one or more characteristics according to a procedure.
Correction
The…activity…taken…to…resolve…the…detected…nonconformity
Document
It is the totality of written forms (definitions, engineering drawings, standards, quality plans, etc.) that provide pre-implementation information in an organization and contain the data necessary for work.
Activity
The degree to which planned activities are carried out and planned results are achieved.
Recycle
Introducing waste into the production process as secondary raw materials after undergoing physical and/or chemical processes.
Recycling
It includes the concepts of reuse and recycling; converting the components in waste into other products or energy by physical, chemical or biochemical methods by taking advantage of its properties.
Reliability
It is the ability of a unit to perform its intended functions under specified conditions and within a specified time period. The term reliability is also used as a reliability feature that indicates the probability or success rate of success.
Review
An activity carried out to determine the effectiveness, adequacy and suitability of the subject under consideration in order to achieve the determined objectives.
Avoiding Error Poke (Error) – Yoke (Avoid)
It is a term formed from the Japanese words "Poke" and "Yoke". It is an effective approach that expresses the system of preventing the occurrence of errors and the use of inappropriate products.
Privilege (Privilege)
Permission to use or release a product that does not conform to specified conditions.
Traceability
The ability to trace the history, implementation, or location of something under consideration.
Accept / Reject Criteria
These are the criteria used to measure and decide whether a product or service is acceptable or unacceptable.
Kaizen (Kaizen)
It represents the concept of continuous improvement. This Japanese concept is a series of small, continuous improvements that accumulate over time. This improvement is achieved with the participation of all employees.
Quality
It is the sum of the characteristics of a product or service based on its ability to meet identified or potential needs.
Quality Target
It is something sought or aimed for in relation to quality.
Quality Control
Application techniques and activities used to meet quality requirements.
Value Added Activities
Activities within an organization that transform input into output that meets customer quality requirements and expectations.
Quality Characteristics
Intrinsic characteristic of a product/service, a process or a system with a condition (meaning a feature found in something structural, especially as a permanent characteristic.)
Record
Document that states the results achieved or provides evidence of the activities carried out.
Establishment
A group of people and facilities with structured responsibilities, authorities, and relationships.
Organizational structure
Organizing the powers, responsibilities and relationships between people
Mistake
Failure to meet a requirement for an intended or specified use
Mission
It is the role that the organization undertakes in line with its purpose of existence.
Customer Oriented
It is an approach that puts forward the principle of meeting customer demands and expectations as the duty of all employees in the organization and targets product quality in this direction.
Customer Satisfaction
The degree of customer satisfaction that customer requirements have been met.
Attribute
Qualitative data that can be measured for recording and analysis. It includes features such as the presence of a required label or the placement of a part.
Use as is
The final process of a part that contains one or more nonconformities. Despite the minor nonconformity, the part can be used for its intended purpose.
Objective Evidence
Evidence supporting the reality or existence of something
Orientation
These are activities carried out to introduce the organization and their own business units to new employees and to familiarize them with the job.
Preventive Action
Action taken to eliminate the cause of a potential nonconformity or other potential undesirable situations.
Procedure
The specified path required for an operation to be performed.
Project
A unique or unique process consisting of a set of coordinated and controlled activities with start and finish dates, performed to achieve objective compliance with specified requirements, and including time constraints, costs and resources.
Competition
It is an intensive effort by an organization to produce a better product or service than its competitors by using all its knowledge.
Release
Permission to proceed to the next stage of a process.
Liability (Product, service)
It is a general term indicating that any personal injury, damage to property or other harm caused by the product or service will be compensated by the manufacturer or others.
Standard
A document containing rules, guidelines or characteristics regarding activities and their results, for common and repeated use, aimed at establishing an optimum level of order under existing conditions, approved by an agreed and accepted body.
Process
It is a series of interrelated activities that aim to obtain a higher value-added output using a set of inputs.
Process Quality
It is the percentage of defects or imperfections in every hundred units of product from a specified process.
Continuous Development
It is the development of the Environmental Management System with the aim of improving environmental performance and success in every field in accordance with the environmental policies of the organization.
Continuous Improvement
The concept of “Continuous Improvement” put forward by Shewhart is one of the most fundamental activities of Total Quality Management. It means the systematic continuous improvement of all functions (product, service and process) in an organization. It is the organization of trained personnel in teams under the leadership of the top management and the continuous improvement work in line with the targets determined as a result of “Customer Focus”.
System
A set of interrelated or interacting elements.
Condition
A stated need or expectation, often implied or mandatory.
Specification
Document with specified conditions
Fix
Action taken to restore the grade of a nonconforming product to an acceptable level for its intended use.
Supplier Quality Assurance
It is the confidence that a supplier's product or service will meet customer quality requirements. This confidence is achieved by creating good relationships between the supplier and the customer. It is the preparation of the product for use with a minimum of corrective action and control.
Supplier
An organization or person that provides a product, such as a manufacturer, distributor, retailer, or seller of a product or service or information.
Reuse
Reusing waste in the same form over and over again until its economic life expires, without any processing other than collection and cleaning.
Technical Regulation
It is a document that specifies product features, processing or production methods, including administrative provisions, and is mandatory to comply with.
Reprocessing
Action taken on a nonconforming product to bring it into compliance with requirements.
Examination
An independent and documented process for obtaining audit evidence and objectively evaluating it to determine the extent to which agreed audit criteria have been met.
Total Quality Management
It is a philosophy that aims at continuous improvement of business processes and products/services.
Conformity
It is a verification that a product or service meets the requirements of the relevant specifications, contracts or regulations.
Nonconformance
Failure of a product to meet the requirements specified in the contract, engineering drawing or specifications.
Product/Service
The result of a process
Productivity
The relationship between the results obtained and the resources used.
Vision
A statement describing how the organization wants to be in the future.
Seven Deadly Diseases
It is a term introduced by Deming. Deming has collected the reasons that will affect the existence of organizations in hyper-competitive environments under seven headings. If they do not pay attention to these, it is impossible for organizations not to survive. Deming's management diseases: 1) Insufficient patience in goals. 2) Excessive correction costs. Excessive commitment costs. Change in management. Giving importance to short-term decisions. Management using visible figures. Skill appreciation or annual review in performance evaluation.
Sufficiency
Demonstrated ability to apply knowledge and skills.
Talent
The ability of an organization, system or process to produce a product that meets required requirements.
Management
Coordinated activities for the direction and control of an organization.
Top Management
The person or group of people who manage and control an organization at the highest level.
The argument
A convincing document that proves something is true or real.
Ecosystem
Ecosystems are continuous ecological systems that are formed by the mutual relations of living things in a certain part and the inanimate environment surrounding them.
Elastane
Threads made from polyurethane-elastomer fibers that elongate to a certain extent when pulled with any force and return to their original state when the force causing the elongation disappears are called elastane threads.
Executive
To carry out, to do, to execute, to apply.
Revival
To restore, to a former state, to revive, to revive. To improve, to improve, to strengthen.
Construction
Building, constructing, building.
Board (Committee)
It is possible to say that it means 'sub-board'. In other words, it stands out as a sub-board of different institutions such as any company or foundation and association.
Reasonable
Reasonable and logical
Network
Expanding business network
Theme
The main orientation that the subject handled and developed in a literary or artistic work reveals in terms of meaning.
Consistency
Being in harmony without disrupting integrity means not engaging in behaviors that contradict each other.
Insicam (Harmony)
It means that each of the parts that make up a whole are compatible with each other.
Ergonomics
It is a group of research and development studies that examine the physical and psychological characteristics of humans and their harmony with the machine and the environment in a natural and technical way. In Greek, "Ergo" means work and "nomos" means law.
PROFESSIONAL TERMS
Accreditation
Certification is the activity of certifying that certification bodies, laboratories, inspection and testing organizations are competent to perform certain tasks, by evaluating them according to internationally accepted technical criteria.
Auditor, Lead
A person who is trained and authorized to organize an audit study throughout the organization, report on it and evaluate the corrective actions taken.
Brainstorming
It is a technique used by groups to generate ideas on a specific topic. It is when each person in the group thinks creatively and writes down all the ideas that come to their mind. All ideas and thoughts are discussed and examined at the end of the meeting.
Benchmarking
It is the process of an organization improving its weak points by evaluating itself, examining its competitors, business partners, successful examples in other sectors, researching the practices in domestic and foreign markets, and taking the best practices as an example.
Information Systems
It is a term used to describe automated systems that collect, analyze and store information and data.
Attractive Quality
It is a quality approach that aims to imagine the differences that the customer does not need yet, but will need in the future, and to transfer these differences to the product and service.
Coaching
It is a managerial action that creates appropriate environments and conditions that empower, develop and encourage individuals and teams to achieve results.
Degree (Quality Degree)
The category or limitation given to different classical terms for products, processes or systems having the same functional use.
Check
It is the determination of whether the activities of an organization, the laboratories, systems and personnel it uses comply with defined regulations and/or standards.
Auditing Organization
It is an independent organization authorized to verify that an existing system, process, product or service conforms to established standards.
Cost of Poor Quality
It is the total cost of activities carried out to achieve the desired quality and ensure continuous improvement in quality.
Documents Review
It is the review of the quality assurance system within the framework of ISO 9000 articles to ensure that it is adequately documented and that the written rules and instructions comply with the specified conditions and are implemented.
Economic Quality
It is the quality level at which the additional profit provided by the product is exceeded. At the same time, economic quality reminds managers of how customers explain quality by looking at the expense-profit relationship.
Area of Opportunity
It may occur as a part or a unit of a predetermined material, process, product or service. The term “Area of Opportunity” is often used when there is no natural unit. It may represent a space, a time interval, a production part or a product consisting of many parts and completed stages of production, etc. The use of the term “unit” is preferable to the term “opportunity area” as long as its role is effectively defined.
Validity
Providing objective evidence that the conditions for a particular use or application are met
Agenda
It is the plan made for the effective running of the meeting.
Blind Customer Research
It is the examination of an organization by another company. The aim is to compare the status and processes of the organization with other companies.
Target Group (Focus Group)
It is a gathering of customers to learn their thoughts about products and services. The aim of the group is to create new ideas for the development of products or services.
Histogram (Histogram)
It is the classification of changes in a data series and the representation of their distribution with bars. Histograms make it easier to understand the groupings that cannot be observed in numerical tables. Histogram is one of the seven tools of quality.
Good Governance
A management approach dominated by a culture of openness, transparency, participation, interaction and accountability.
Interested party
A person or group that benefits from the success or performance of an organization. For example, customers, owners, people in the organization, suppliers, bankers, unions, partners, or associations.
Marking
It refers to the use of a specific mark to show that a product or product group complies with national and international standards and/or relevant legislation within the framework of health, safety, environmental and consumer protection.
Acceptable Quality Level (AQL)
It is the percentage of products that are in a condition that can be accepted by the customer.
Calibration
It is the determination of deviations in non-standard measuring instruments or devices or their elimination through adjustment by comparing them with measuring instruments or devices that are traceable to national or international standards and whose accuracy has been proven.
Quality Manual
It is the highest level document that defines all quality systems of the organization and specifies the quality policy. This document also contains information defining authority, responsibility, relationship and system applications.
Quality Surveillance
It is the determination of the accuracy of procedures, methods, conditions, products and services and record analysis by constantly observing them according to the specified references in order to ensure that quality requirements are met.
Quality Assurance
It is the whole of planned and systematic activities required to provide sufficient confidence in order to meet the requirements determined for the quality of the product or service.
Quality Loop Quality Spiral
It is a conceptual model of interdependent activities that affect the quality of any product or service, covering the stages from determining the needs to investigating whether the identified needs are met.
Cost of Quality
It is the sum of the costs of the work done to achieve appropriate quality and the costs resulting from inadequate controls. Roughly, it can be examined under two headings: functional quality costs and external quality assurance costs.
Quality Planning
The part of quality management that focuses on establishing quality objectives and determining the necessary operating principles and resources to meet quality objectives.
Quality Policy
It is the official goal of the organization regarding quality, determined by the top management.
Seven Tools of Quality
These are tools that help organizations improve themselves and understand their operations. These are:
a. Cause-Effect Diagram
b. Checklist
c. Control Form
d. Flow Chart
e. Histogram
f. Pareto Chart
g. Dispersion Diagram
Quality System Audit
It is the activity implemented to prove the suitability and development of applicable quality system elements, their clarity and their effective application in line with the specified conditions through examination and impartial evaluation.
Quality System
The organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, processes and resources required for the implementation of quality management.
Quality System Review
It is the evaluation of the status and adequacy of the quality system by the top management, based on the quality policy and new targets according to the changing conditions.
Qualification
Attribution, quality, feature, qualification, ability; condition; limitation
Metrological Confirmation
Set of procedures required to ensure that measuring equipment meets the requirements for its intended use.
Metrological Function
The function with institutional responsibility for the definition and implementation (implementation) of the measurement control system.
Inspection
It is the comparison of the conformity of one or more features of a product or service to the specified conditions by subjecting them to processes such as measurement, testing and gauging.
Voice of Customer
It is learning the customer's ideas about the product or service and using this information to improve the processes. Listening to the voice of the customer allows the organization to improve its products or services.
Qualified Manufacturer's List (QML)
It is the list that emerges as a result of the evaluation and determination of manufacturers that meet the customer's quality requirements.
Qualification Process
The process for demonstrating the ability to meet specified requirements.
Measurement Control System
A set of interrelated or interacting elements necessary to achieve metrological confirmation and continuous control of measurement processes.
Measurement Process
A set of operations performed to determine the value of a quantity.
Measuring Equipment
Measuring device, software, measurement standard, reference material and/or additional equipment or combinations thereof required to perform a measurement process
Stakeholders
It is a term that includes customers, employees, managers, competitors, labor unions, suppliers, and business partners.
Reengineering
It is the review and redesign of business processes to make them more effective and to improve the quality of the end product or service.
Deviation Permit (Production permit)
It is the permission given to deviate from the specified conditions for a certain amount or time before production or service is prepared.
Contract Review
The systematic processes that an organization performs before awarding a contract to ensure that the quality requirements in the contract are adequately defined, documented, and easily understood by the organization.
Adequacy of Standards
It is the term used to express the adequacy of a standard to be used to calibrate the adequacy of instruments used to measure quality.
Strategic Management
It is the process of analyzing the internal and external environments of an organization and their relationships with each other, and determining and implementing appropriate behavior patterns to achieve the organization's long-term goals.
Sustainable Development
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
Voice of Process
They are the results obtained from a process. A process may or may not perform within specifications or meet or fail to meet customer quality requirements.
Process Re-engineering
It is the reorganization of a process that has lost its effectiveness due to changing customer requirements and competitive structure, by analyzing current customer requirements without reference to the past.
Process Improvement
These are activities aimed at increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the process through methods such as eliminating non-value-added work as a result of process analysis, simplifying the process, and automating it.
Process Performance
It expresses the effectiveness and efficiency of the process. It shows whether the output of the process operates within the specified standards, whether it meets the targets and whether it meets the customer quality requirements. Process performance is generally monitored with the indicators "Quality", "Cost" and "Time" which can be gathered under three headings.
Process Owner
He/she is the person primarily responsible for the effectiveness and efficiency of the process and therefore has the authority to make decisions independently of the functional authority in the management of the process.
Process Management
A systematic approach that includes defining the processes in an organization, continuously monitoring the effectiveness and efficiency of the defined processes through performance indicators, and carrying out analysis and improvement work in critical processes deemed necessary.
Assignable Cause
It is the reason for any change in a process. These reasons can be easily identified and eliminated by employees.
Design Review
Evaluation of design conditions is the detailed and systematic examination of the design by documenting it to ensure that the design meets these conditions and to identify problems and provide solutions.
Design and Development
A set of processes that transforms a product, process or system into a specified set of characteristics.
Vendor Appraisal
Before placing an order, it is important to evaluate the ability of the manufacturer to control quality.
Inspector
Person qualified to conduct an audit
Inspection Program
It is a set of one or more studies planned over a specific period of time and directed towards a specific purpose.
Inspection Criteria
A set of policies, procedures, or requirements used as a reference.
Inspection Result
The result of an audit conducted by the audit team after considering all audit objectives and all audit findings.
Qualification
The process of inspecting, testing and approving a manufacturer's or distributor's products to determine their conformity with a contract or the requirements of an engineering drawing.
Adequacy Audit
It is the auditing of quality system documents in terms of their adequacy against relevant documents.
Depreciation
When your business purchases an asset (the asset must wear out or wear out), you can deduct the cost of the asset from your taxes as a business expense. However, Tax Procedure Law regulations require that you spread the cost of the asset over its estimated useful life. This type of long-term deduction is called depreciation.
Applique
It is generally known as a technique obtained by applying a piece of fabric to another fabric surface in various ways.
Assortment
It is the smallest order quantity that shows the color and size distribution in the mass production of clothes.
Moustache
In this washing, garments are washed using pumice stones. The rubbing and scrubbing of the products against each other is accelerated with the help of the stones used to achieve a washing effect.
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Gasket
The part used for attachment.
Painter
Çima is the name given to the stitching made 1 mm above the edge of the garment.
Denier
Technically, denier refers to the weight (i.e. thickness) of the yarn the socks are woven from (if you are interested in more information, 1 denier refers to the weight in grams of 9000 meters of yarn). Generally, the lower the denier, the more transparent the appearance and the more delicate the product.
Destroy
It is the name given to the excessive wear and tear applied to the desired area in denim products. This application is done while the denim product is in its raw state.
Transformational Leadership
Transformational leadership is an approach that includes a number of features such as providing vision inspiration and being a role model, providing intellectual stimulation, ensuring the acceptance of group goals, expecting high success from followers and showing individual attention to them.
Plaid
(fabric) with square patterns in various colors.
Elastomer
Elastomer (elastane) fibers, which are fiber types with high extensibility, are fibers that can show very high elongation without breaking due to their chemical structure and can return to their original state completely and quickly in elongations up to the breaking point.
Printed
Screen printing is the process of printing grounds and various patterns on fabric using screen printing inks of different colors.
Suppository
The roving process can be defined as the pre-spinning process in which the semi-finished product is thinned out and sufficient strength is achieved with very little twist in preparation for ring spinning after the draw frame process in the yarn production stages.
Flare
These are trousers that are narrow at the top and Spanish-style below the knee.
Tension
It allows the tension to be adjusted during the passage of the fabric. This helps to make a smooth cut. Fabric tension is an important factor that ensures the operation of the brushes in the machine and the smoothness of the shearing process.
Indigo
It is a dye used for cotton yarn in the production of denim fabric for blue denim trousers.
Jacquard Fabric
It is a type of fabric created with patterns obtained by weaving threads on a special loom.
Freight
Shipping cost
Outdoor
Clothes that should be worn to protect against seasonal conditions or other external factors such as snow, rain, wind or hail in outdoor sports activities performed outdoors and in nature are called outdoor clothing.
Outlet
Exit means exit point and outside. However, the outlet concept in stores is a concept that stores use when they need to specify a product that is subject to return, is out of season, or is defective.
Size Set
Body set
Skinny
Skinny jeans. The feature of the fabric used in skinny jeans is that it is not completely hard denim fabric.
Agraf
What is an agraffe? An agraffe is an auxiliary material consisting of two pieces, generally with small metal hooks and rings, used to close the opposite ends of a clothing item by attaching them together.
Feminine
Although it is feminine, it is generally used for feminine men. It has the meanings of resembling a woman, resembling a woman, and like a woman.
Masculine
The word masculine generally means "manly". In broader terms, it means resembling a man, resembling a man, or masculine.
Tencel
It is a breathable, durable fabric type, thanks to its features and privileges that have significant potential in the textile and clothing industry.
