Quality Control

Quality

"Quality itself has been defined as fundamentally relational:  'Quality is the ongoing process of building and sustaining relationships by assessing, anticipating, and fulfilling stated and implied needs.'

Control

The process through which the standards are established and met with standards is called control. This process consists of observing our activity performance, comparing the performance with some standard and then taking action if the observed performance is significantly different from the standards.

The control process involves a universal sequence of steps as follows:

1. Choose the control subject.

2. Choose a unit of measure.

3. Set a standard value i.e., specify the quality characteristics

4. Choose a sensing device which can measure.

5. Measure actual performance.

6. Interpret the difference between actual and standard.

7. Taking action, if any, on the difference.

Quality Control

Quality control can be defined as that Industrial Management technique by means of which product of uniform acceptable quality is manufactured.

Factors Affecting Quality

1. Men, Materials and Machines

2. Manufacturing conditions

3. Market research in demand of purchases

4. Money in capability to invest

5. Management policy for quality level

6. Production methods and product design

7. Packing and transportation

8. after sales service

Importance of Quality Control

1. To decide about the standard of Quality of a product that is easily acceptable to the customer.

2. To check the variation during manufacturing.

3. To prevent the poor quality products reaching to customer.