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Quality Management Systems

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WHAT IS QUALITY?  According to the American Society for Quality, “quality” can be defined in the following ways:  ✔ Based on customer’s perceptions of a product/service’s design and how well the design matches           the original specifications. ✔ The ability of a product/service to satisfy stated or implied needs. ✔ Achieved by conforming to established requirements within an organization.  The concept of quality management systems (QMS) is applied in business of all sizes and types. It is a relevant in manufacturing as it is in health care or food …... Of course, quality takes a different meaning depending on whether a product, a service, or a combination of both is offered.  The core of QMS is being able to guide your business towards continual improvement. The main three components to QMS: -  Quality Assurance Systems(QA) -  Quality Control Systems (QC) -  Quality Improvement.  it's not just about the condition of the products you sell or the caliber of serv

Magic of Mechanics Epicyclic (Planetary) gears

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Epicyclic gearing - Invention: In the 2nd-century AD treatise Almagest, Ptolemy utilized turning deferent and epicycles that Makes epicyclic gear trains to foresee the movements of the planets. Precise expectations of the development of the Sun, Moon and the five planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, across the sky assumed that each followed a trajectory traced by a point on the planet gear of an epicyclic gear train. This curve is called an epitrochoid.  Richard of Wallingford, an English abbot of St Albans religious community is credited for reevaluating epicyclic designing for an astronomical clock in the 14th century. In 1588, Italian military engineer Agostino Ramelli invented the bookwheel, a vertically-revolving bookstand containing epicyclic gearing with two levels of planetary gears to maintain proper orientation of the books How Does  Epicyclic gear  Work? The Next Video will illustrate : - How does Epicyclic gear Work  - some Application of Ep