CTD 461- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 70 pages long!)

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Textile industry complex: activities and processes that generate textile products. Quality: a complex concept used to describe the degree to which a process, material, product, or service possesses desirable physical or intangible attributes. Textile quality assurance market: process of designing, producing, evaluating, and checking products to determine if they meet the desired quality level for a company"s target, quality is incorporated into the product during product development, production, marketing and retailing. Inspects products after production: separates into firsts and seconds, expensive. Risk unacceptable products reaching consumers: this is not quality assurance. The product, for whatever reason: expectations for performance depend strongly on the intended end-use of. Quality product: a quality product is one which meets or exceeds our expectations for its performance over its expected lifetime. Consumers use quality to make decisions: high quality consumers more likely to purchase. Varying quality: challenge to consumers to differentiate, depend on experts.