Redundancy

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In total quality management, TQM, redundancy in quality or redundant quality means quality which exceeds the required quality level. Tolerances may not be too accurate, for example, creating unnecessarily high costs of production.

Redundant quality is sometimes incorrectly used instead of even quality or constant quality, perhaps because of the positive connotations of the term redundancy used in connection with safety-critical systems.

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