In total quality management, TQM, redundancy in quality or redundant quality means quality which exceeds the required quality level. Tolerances may be too accurate, for example, creating unnecessarily high costs of production. Total Quality Management or TQM is a management strategy to embed awareness of quality in all organizational processes. ... Tolerance is a social, cultural and religious term applied to the collective and individual practice of not persecuting those who may believe, behave or act in ways of which one may not approve. ...

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. In logic and in some branches of semantics, connotation is more or less synonymous with intension. ...