Definition Quality Control vs Quality Assurance - Differences or Semantics

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kgott

#21
Need good synergy required between QA and QC. (If they are separate function in an org.)

QA and QC is part of QMS.

Calibration of equipments is part of QA or QC activity?

Think of QA as related to the procesess that produce the goods whereas QC is about product itself.
 
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Big Jim

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#22
Here's the dirty little secret: None of the activities that we like to refer to as "quality" should actually be called quality at all.

Why?

Because the minute you do that, there is an "understood" assumption that it is the "quality department's problem" and not anybody else's. There should be a move to remove "quality" term from any processes, and rephrase them as simply mandatory process activities.
I feel sad for your organization for hanging on to the old notion that you are not all in the same boat.

I have several clients that have risen above that, and life is easier for all.
 

Jim Wynne

Staff member
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#23
I think there's no real basis for the contention that the term "quality assurance" was devised to signify a more sophisticated approach to quality control. American business has a marked propensity for believing that changing the name of something changes the essence of it. Personnel departments became Human Resources, Data Processing departments became Information Technology, Accounting became Finance, etc., etc. It's only fitting and fair that QC should get a new name too.

In one place where I worked, where managers truly believed in the magic of renaming, buyers became Supply Chain Analysts. Nothing changed about the work they were doing and nothing was improved. My theory is that upper level managers somehow feel more important when they have a lot of analysts working for them, instead of plain old buyers.

Some such manager somewhere in the past decided that his QC department would be much more effective if it were given a new name, and Quality Assurance was born. A bifurcation has occurred with differentiation between QA and QC as a matter of back-formation rather than the distinction being a part of the original idea.

Everyone is, or should be, working to control quality, and when quality is controlled, quality is assured.
 
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sridharafep

#26
Because it's too late. You have to have a process in place prior to conducting any inspections if you're expected to use monitoring and measuring equipment.
For any other inspection system also QA in place! but we part it as QC all inspection activities?
 
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soniyaudai

#27
  • This is especially important for service-oriented companies, because the employees are the product that they provide to customers. Often, quality control is confused with quality assurance. Though the two are similar, but there are some basic differences.
  • Here, the goal is to work within the established order so the company realizes its goals of turning out quality products, a move that essentially completes the overall task that both quality assurance and quality control are designed to accomplish. One of the reasons that many people use quality assurance and quality control interchangeably is that there is often a great deal of overlap in terms of the personnel that engage in each phase
 
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