Business A-Level
capacity and quality
What capacity and quality means in Business A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of capacity and quality
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Reference: AQA
Operations needs flexible capacity, new equipment and tighter quality systems, and often has to carry deliberate spare capacity so that trials can happen at all.
Topics that use capacity and quality
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