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A Quality Assurance Team Can Save Your Company

by admin on April 16, 2010

What is quality assurance?

What is Quality Assurance?

Quality Assurance is industry’s standard of determining, verifying and assuring that a product or a company’s specific goals and services exceed the customer’s expectations. It considers production, service, development and design in its assessment. In short, the system works to eliminate mistakes through a process of regulation, including measuring the quality of products, services, materials, production and management components.

Definition of Quality:

The systematic and planned event or activity implemented in a within a certain system so that excellence for a service or product is fulfilled.

Definition of Assurance:

Bringing about and installing confidence; being certain or the act of being sure.

A good QA requires good communication and social skills, while independently acting and focusing on the company it is evaluating. They embrace the company with a non-heartless approach, and implement semantics, not just the “bottom line.”

The quality assurance team uses a popular tool commonly called PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) to evaluate and determine excellence and provide improvement. It was founded by Dr. Edwards Deming, but its more popular name is the Deming Wheel, or Shewhart Cycle. It’s based on a method of science. The principle is, once a hypothesis is negated, beginning and implementing the cycle again will further extend knowledge, bringing about perfect output and operation within the company.

PDCA is an effective way of monitoring quality assurance. It scrutinizes the existing components, conditions and services within the company in order to improve revenue and working conditions, products and safety. It has been proven that this method is appropriate throughout the life of the service, ultimately increasing and improving upon efficiency.

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Accuracy of Quality Assurance

by admin on April 9, 2010

Accuracy in CA

Quality Assurance and Control: Why Accuracy is Vital

Competition is intense in today’s business and industrial arenas. When products and services vie heavily for market shares, the ability to deliver quality products that stand up to their promises is often a determining factor when a customer chooses a vendor. The accuracy of that vendor’s quality assurance process is key to gaining or expanding footholds in market shares.

Definition
Quality Assurance (QA) can be defined as “the inspection and testing process a business conducts to verify manufacturing, assembly, or performance standards for a product or service in accordance with business, local, industry, or government guidelines.”

Quality Control (QC) often goes hand-in-hand with Quality Assurance. QC can be defined as “Steps, checks, and balances to detect, repair, and improve upon errors or defects in a manufactured product or a service.”

A QC/QA inspection process can be as simple as checking a document for typographical, grammatical, or punctuation errors. It can be as complex as disassembling a large-capacity airliner and inspecting every part then reassembling it, testing performance as each step is completed.

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