Quality assurance refers to planned activities like inspections that are designed to prevent defects, while quality control refers to inspection and testing activities performed after production to identify defects. Specifically, quality assurance aims to give confidence that quality requirements will be met through systematic actions, whereas quality control evaluates processes and products to determine if corrections are needed.
Quality assurance refers to planned activities like inspections that are designed to prevent defects, while quality control refers to inspection and testing activities performed after production to identify defects. Specifically, quality assurance aims to give confidence that quality requirements will be met through systematic actions, whereas quality control evaluates processes and products to determine if corrections are needed.
Quality assurance refers to planned activities like inspections that are designed to prevent defects, while quality control refers to inspection and testing activities performed after production to identify defects. Specifically, quality assurance aims to give confidence that quality requirements will be met through systematic actions, whereas quality control evaluates processes and products to determine if corrections are needed.
Quality assurance refers to planned activities like inspections that are designed to prevent defects, while quality control refers to inspection and testing activities performed after production to identify defects. Specifically, quality assurance aims to give confidence that quality requirements will be met through systematic actions, whereas quality control evaluates processes and products to determine if corrections are needed.
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Quality Assurance vs.
Quality Control The terms quality assurance and quality control are often used interchangeably to refer to ways of ensuring the quality of a service or product. The terms, however, have different meanings.
Assurance: The act of giving confidence, the state of being certain or the act of making certain. Quality Assurance: The planned and systematic activities implemented in a quality system so that quality requirements for a product or service will be fulfilled.
Control: An evaluation to indicate needed corrective responses; the act of guiding a process in which variability is attributable to a constant system of chance causes. Quality Control: The observation techniques and activities used to fulfill requirements for quality.
