BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Quality Control
- an inspection system for ensuring that predetermined quality standards are being met. Quality control measures the progress of an activity by means of a quality inspection, checking for and identifying non-conformance.
Additional Resources
- Quality Control
- The ISO definition states that quality control is the operational techniques and activities that are used to fulfil requirements for quality. This definition could imply that any activity whether serving the improvement, control, management or assurance of quality could be a quality control activity. Quality control is a process for...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Total Quality Control
- The term ‘Total Quality Control' includes three aspects viz. Design Quality Control, Product Quality Control, and Incoming Material Quality Control. The term ‘quality' is also categorized into three aspects viz. the product quality, the design quality, and conformance quality. The adoption of Total Quality Control techniques involves an elaborate process....
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Total Quality Control Strategies
- This article is the "blue crayon" to help you identify hazardous situations where analytical quality is difficult to manage and to give you some ideas on what to do in those situations. It explains the need for TQC strategy and provides the guidelines for the same. Current QC practices tend...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 'Quality Control Manual' a worthy tool. (AICPA's 'Quality Control Manual for CPA Firms) (Quality Control)
- Quality control, as a formal requirement in the public accounting profession, first became a professional standard more than 15 years ago. As with most elements of the profession, these standards have been continuously evolving and compliance requirementsQuality control, as a formal requirement in the public accounting profession, first became a...
- Research articles 1995-02-01
- Process Quality Control
- Process Quality Control Ellis R. Ott, Edward G. Schilling and Dean V. Neubauer, ASQ Quality Press, 2005, 672 pp., $68 member, $85 list (book and CD-ROM).With the emphasis on process quality these days, Schilling and Neubauer have hit the mark with the fourth edition of Process Quality Control: Troubleshooting and...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- Color scanner, advanced imaging software improve product quality. (at Lamb-Weston's Richland, Washington plant; includes related article on How Color Quality Control Monitoring Systems Work) (Cover Story)
- A Lamb-Weston Inc potato processing plant in Richland, WA, installed a AccuScan color quality control monitoring system to improve quality control. The system uses a color scanner and imaging software to measure product quality against potato color standards and other criteria. Lam-Weston's use of this system will improve the company's...
- Research articles 1994-04-01
- Simplified Quality Control in Lumber Manufacturing
- One of the major objectives of saw milling is maximizing the value of lumber products. A quality control program can significantly increase the output from overall lumber manufacturing. Quality control activities should be carried throughout lumber evaluation, storage and shipping. This fact sheet reviews basic quality control concepts and their...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- An Expert System With External Optimization Module for Quality Control Decisions
- Quality control, which combines decisions and interpretations based on analytical data, on heuristics, and on user judgment, is suited for rule based expert systems. Many commercial software packages store data and perform calculations for quality control; this comprehensive expert system, named Quincy, is envisioned as a complement to those. This...
- White papers 1999-05-18
- New Data System Software Improves Chemical QA/QC.(quality assurance and quality control)(Brief Article)
- AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company, has introduced the Agilent Cerity networked data system for chemical quality assurance QA and quality control QC. The sample-centric software is designed for laboratory personn AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company, has introduced...
- Research articles 1999-12-20
- Quality Control And Safety During Construction
- Quality control and safety represents increasingly important concerns for project managers. Defects or failures in constructed facilities can result in very large costs. Even with minor defects, re-construction may be required and facility operations impaired. Increased costs and delays are the result. In the worst case, failures may cause personal...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Statistical Process Adjustment Methods for Quality Control in Short-Run Manufacturing
- Process adjustment techniques based on the feedback control principle have become popular among quality control researchers and practitioners, due to the recent interest on integrating Statistical Process Control SPC and Engineering Process Control EPC techniques. This paper focuses on studying sequential adjustment methods, closely related to well-known Stochastic Approximation procedures,...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- Simulating the complexity of quality control. (Ohio State University's computer/text program for manufacturing quality control) ( Special Supplement: Zenith Data Systems)
- Ohio State University's Department of Management Sciences is gaining benefits from its integrated computer/text program to teach the fundamentals of manufacturing quality control. Designed to overcome deficiencies in textbook-based systems, the program allows students to dynamically analyze a fictitious manufacturing process by changing variables. The process represented is a manufacturer...
- Research articles 1993-02-01
- Yale scientists identify structure for RNA quality control.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-1 June 2005-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale scientists identify structure for RNA quality controlC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01062005 New Haven, Conn. - A report by Yale scientists in the journal Cell sheds new light on how the protein Ro, a major autoantigen in...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- CORRECTIONS IN MEAT QUALITY CONTROL RULES.(Brief Article)
- CORRECTIONS IN MEAT QUALITY CONTROL RULES: There were some inconsistencies in USDA's May 30 regulation on the "Elimination of Requirements for Partial Quality Control Programs," [see FOOD INSTITUTE REPORT, June 5, page 12]. The final rule removes the remaining requirements pertaining to partial quality control...
- Research articles 2000-09-18
- Process Quality Control: Troubleshooting and Interpretation of Data, Fourth Edition
- Process Quality Control: Troubleshooting and Interpretation of Data, Fourth Edition by Ellis R. Ott, Edward G. Schilling, and Dean V. Neubauer. ASQ Quality Press, 2005. xli + 672 pp. ASQ member price $68. List price $85. Reviewer: Necip Doganaksoy, GE GloProcess Quality Control: Troubleshooting and Interpretation of Data, Fourth Edition...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- ASQC division names Duncan as chairman. (American Society for Quality Control, Jerry Duncan)
- ASQC Division Names Duncan As Chairman CHARLOTTE, N.C.--The Textile and Needle Trades Division of the American Society for Quality Control ASQC has named Jerry Duncan--quality assurance manager for Lands End Yacht Stores--as chairman. He succeeds Phil Richardson, Oxford Industries' division quality...
- Research articles 1988-06-08
- Senior Quality Control Engineer
- The Senior Quality Control Engineer job description template includes the following job summary: To develop and direct testing procedures to ensure high quality products. Quality control QC procedures and tests should encompass all phases of plant operation from receipt of raw materials through the manufacturing process and tests of finished...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Commission proposes extension to food crop seed quality control system
- Commission proposes extension to food crop seed quality control system: The European Commission has proposed extending the European Union's EU food crop seed quality control regime to many seeds imported from non-EU countries, including those for beet and oils. Under the proposed changes to the European seed authorization regime, exporting...
- Research articles 2004-05-03
- Globalisation spurs changes in quality: if your process is more sensitive than your tests, you need better tests. according to executives at Alpha Technologies. (Rubber news).(quality control in rubber industry)
- Quality control in the rubber industry is going through a rapid evolution, according to Jeremy Clarke, Alpha Technologies' vice-president for sales in the European region. Quality control in the rubber industry is going through a rapid evolution, according to Jeremy Clarke, Alpha Technologies' ...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- QUALITY CHAMPIONS.(total quality control)(Brief Article)
- Armand Feigenbaum and Genichi Taguchi are jointly sharing the award far Quality Champion of the Century presented by the World Quality Council, a group of 52 national quality organizations based in London. The announcement was made at the 10th World Congress on Total Quality in Mumbai,...
- Research articles 2000-03-06
