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IDEF, initially abbreviation of ICAM Definition, renamed in 1999 as Integration DEFinition, refers to a family of modeling languages in the field of systems and software engineering.

Deutsch: Identifizierung / Français: Identification

In the context of quality management, identification refers to the process of defining, labeling, or marking items, materials, or products to ensure that they can be easily recognized and traced. This helps in ensuring the quality, authenticity, and accountability of these items.

Deutsch: IEC / Español: IEC / Français: IEC / Italiano: IEC

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is an international organization that develops and publishes standards related to the field of electrotechnology. The IEC is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has members in over 170 countries.

Improvement may refer to the Business process improvement.

In the context of quality management, "improvement" refers to the process of continuously enhancing the quality of products, services, and processes within an organization. Improvement is a fundamental principle of quality management, and it involves a systematic approach to identifying areas for improvement, implementing changes, and monitoring results to ensure that the desired outcomes are achieved.

Deutsch: Index / Español: %C3%8Dndice (desambiguación) / Português: Index / Français: Index / Italiano: Index
An index is an indirect shortcut derived from and pointing into, a greater volume of values, data, information or knowledge. 

Deutsch: Information / Español: Información  / Português: Informação  / Français: Information / Italiano: Informazione

Information is knowledge about something. It consists of symbols (characters, digits) which can be formed to a message.

In a quality management system, any document, status, result, report is an information. These information are proving the correctness of the past and influence (correct) the next actions.

Deutsch: Injektion / Español: Inyección / Português: Injeção  / Français: Injection / Italiano: Iniezione 
Injection or Injected may refer to theinsertion of liquid into the body with a syringe (medical context) or injection molding, a technique for making parts from plastic material.

The International Organization for Standardization (French: Organisation internationale de normalisation), (ISO), is an international standard--setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on 23 February 1947, the organization promotes worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial standards. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The organization's name would have different acronyms in different languages so it adopted the short name ISO, based on the Greek word isos ("equal").