Models, Managing Models, Quality Models: An Example of Quality Management

Published

January 1, 1991

Author(s)

Joan Tyler

Abstract

Quality is an increasingly important element in competitiveness. This paper will focus on strategies underway within a standards-making organization for improving its complex standards. This paper explains the quality approach developed to function within this standards environment. Aside from the standards-making community, any organization interested in establishing quality metrics and quality thresholds to assess technical quality will find this paper useful. Also included is an overview of a methodology developed to verify the technical quality of information and data models. These models provide the basis for the standard. The types of models denoted in the title include information, activity, data, or process models which are notated in some formal modeling language. Quality thresholds to guide information model developers and evaluators are described, along with an overview of the team approach used in applying the methodology. A description of quality management for models is included along with the roles of management in assuring that quality models are produced.

Citation

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 4738

Report Number

4738

NIST Pub Series

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Pub Type

NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.4738

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Keywords

models, standards, STEP

Citation

Tyler, J. (1991), Models, Managing Models, Quality Models: An Example of Quality Management, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.4738, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=821552 (Accessed March 13, 2025)