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-=== Quality Control ===+====== Quality Control ======
  
-The most critical component of any management framework is its ability to constantly measure its effectiveness with a goal of constantly improving each process and ensuring that there is no degradation in the overall quality of solution.  When managing a tape library there are many indicators that can be used calculate the overall library health. 
  
-**//Quality Control Standards//**+The most critical component of any management framework is its ability to constantly measure its effectiveness with a goal of constantly improving each process and ensuring that there is no degradation in the overall quality of solution.  
  
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 +When managing a tape library there are many indicators that can be used calculate the overall library health.
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 +===== Quality Control Standards =====
   * The Quality Control mechanisms should provide an overall library score based on real-time information.   * The Quality Control mechanisms should provide an overall library score based on real-time information.
   * Quality Control scores should be recorded over time to produce a historical record of process performance and to visually demonstrate process improvement.   * Quality Control scores should be recorded over time to produce a historical record of process performance and to visually demonstrate process improvement.
-  * The Quality Control mechanism should provide a diagnosis along with clearinstructions on how to cure all identified problems.+  * The Quality Control mechanism should provide a diagnosis along with clear instructions on how to cure all identified problems.
  
-**//Quality Control KPIs//**+===== Quality Control Key Performance Indicators =====
  
   * Days since last library synchronization.   * Days since last library synchronization.
   * Existence of offsite tapes.   * Existence of offsite tapes.
-  * Days since last offsite.Existence of pre-identified lists of critical tapes which need to be offsite.+  * Days since last offsite. 
 +  * Existence of pre-identified lists of critical tapes which need to be offsite.
   * Days since the last list of pre-identified tapes was produced.   * Days since the last list of pre-identified tapes was produced.
   * Number of predefined lists which have one or more tapes not offsite.   * Number of predefined lists which have one or more tapes not offsite.
-  * Number of reconciliation errors.Number of tapes with low quality scores.+  * Number of reconciliation errors. 
 +  * Number of tapes with low quality scores. 
 + 
 +<- primer:disaster_recovery|Disaster Recovery ^ primer:introduction|Introduction ^ ->
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