While quality assurance relates to how a process is performed or how a product is made, quality control is more the inspection aspect of quality management. An alternate definition is "the …

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A quality management system (QMS) is a structured framework that defines and documents an organization’s processes, procedures, and responsibilities for achieving quality policies, …

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The seven basic quality tools—also known as the old seven, the first seven, the basic seven, the classic seven, and the seven quality control tools—are simple yet effective and should be …

What is the Z1.4 Standard? ANSI/ASQ Z1.4-2003 (R2018): Sampling Procedures and Tables for Inspection by Attributes is an acceptance sampling system to be used with switching rules on …

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