Quality {#7} influences

• Selection of production facility
• General product risks, market selection and user type
• Production processes, tests, tools and equipment
• All testing methodologies
• Technology and supplier selection
• Standards, legal and regulatory requirements
• Documentation
• Customer service, maintenance, inspection
• Corporate waste levels
• Product performance and reliability

For example, if quality is not designed into a product then production costs can rise dramatically from the extensive 'testing-in' and 'inspecting-in' of quality in order to provide the customer with a ‘high quality' product.