Categorizing the Cost of Quality into Failure Costs, Appraisal Costs

Categorizing the cost of quality into failure costs, appraisal costs, and prevention costs is essential to be able to:

A) Reduce the total cost of quality to as near zero as possible.
B) Allocate efforts to effectively balance reduction of failures with detection of failures, as well as preventing failures.
C) Substantially increase appraisal costs to detect failures before shipment.
D) Virtually eliminate appraisal costs by adding to prevention efforts.