Friday, July 10, 2009

Clear doubts about QC vs QA

Quality Assurance Versus Quality Control

What you guess? it does mean same? any guess?

The following statements help differentiate quality control from quality assurance:

• Quality control relates to a specific product or service.

• Quality control verifies whether specific attribute(s) are in, or are not in, a specific product or service.

• Quality control identifies defects for the primary purpose of correcting defects.

• Quality control is the responsibility of the team/worker.

• Quality control is concerned with a specific product.

• Quality assurance helps establish processes.

• Quality assurance sets up measurement programs to evaluate processes.

• Quality assurance identifies weaknesses in processes and improves them.

• Quality assurance is a management responsibility, frequently performed by a staff function.

• Quality assurance is concerned with all of the products that will ever be produced by a process.

• Quality assurance is sometimes called quality control over quality control because it evaluates whether quality control is working.

• Quality assurance personnel should never perform quality control unless it is to validate quality control.



Reference: CSTE CBOK v6.2

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