Quality assurance and quality control. current furtherances and hereafter point of view

Quality assurance can be delineated as "section of quality management concentrated on furnishing confidence that quality must-have will be performed." The confidence delivered by quality assurance is twice intrinsically to management and extrinsically to clients, government agencies, regulators, certifiers, and third parties. An alternate delineation is "entire the aimed and organized activities accomplishment within the quality method that can be substantiated to hand over confidence that a commodity or service will perform must-have for quality. Quality assurance is across-the-board and does not have to do with the specific must-have of the product being developed. QA hobbies and responsibilities fill in practically entire of the fantabulous technique in lone fashion or distinctive, while QC is a subset of the QA hobbies. Also, constituents in the fantabulous technique might not be concretely substituted by QA/QC hobbies and responsibilities but perhaps enclose QA and QC. Quality control is a procedure which contemplates on performing the quality demand. Quality control intend to distinguish (and dead-on) imperfection in the finished product. Quality control, in consequence, is a reactive procedure. Quality control can be delineated as "section of quality management emphasized on furnishing quality must-have.

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Special Issue on Measurement Technology for Process and Product Quality Control

International Journal of Automation Technology ◽

10.20965/ijat.2014.p0003 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 3-3

Author(s):

Yasuhiro Takaya ◽

Tomohiko Maeda

Keyword(s):

Quality Control ◽

Quality Management ◽

Product Quality ◽

Industrial Applications ◽

Process Quality ◽

Measurement Technology ◽

Special Issue ◽

Production Engineering ◽

Machining Processes ◽

Product Quality Control

A broad sense of values, globalization, and ecology is needed in production activities because production processes are becoming rapidly more complex due to demands for downsizing, functionality, quality. This is in addition to cost reduction, shorter lead times, and energy saving in fabrication. Many types of measurement system and large amounts of production information are therefore needed in production engineering. In-process and on-machine measurements are used to evaluate a variety of machining factors and conditions and work done on machine tools. With increasingly complex machining processes and greater needs for accuracy and precision, the demand for advances in process optimization has also grown. This special issue covers manufacturing metrology and quality management as its two main fields of interest, together with their important implications for science, industry, and engineering. This special issue also covers novel in-process and on-machine measurement and sensing and quality management techniques now being widely applied to production engineering, focusing on the important role of measurement in manufacturing technology as it progresses from inspection tools to strategic production tools in managing process quality and product quality control. The advanced papers in this special issue present the latest advancements in these fields, ranging from fundamental research to industrial applications. These reports will thus enable readers to share their experience and knowledge in technology, new development, and potential applications of promising techniques in measurement and in product and process quality control. We thank the authors for their invaluable contributions and the reviewers for their always useful advice, which have helped make this special issue both fascinating and far-reaching.

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