Quality is one of the most concerning issues for manufacturing Companies. When quality control is on track, efficiency and cost are improved, and, let's face it, there are significantly less headaches. When things go wrong, however, quality difficulties can raise material and labour costs, jeopardise profits, and result in lost orders.
Quality control in manufacturing is a component of an entire quality management programme that ensures that quality criteria are met. It entails inspecting and measuring items to verify that they are in specification at the moment of manufacture.
Consider quality control to be the ground game for quality assurance. While quality assurance provides the structure and standards for a production process to accomplish activities that deliver a product's quality requirements and provide process trust, quality control is the performance of the needed tasks. These two tasks work together to establish a company's quality system.
Depending on the sector and product, there are several forms of quality control. Materials inspection, in-process inspection, final inspection, and shipment inspection are examples of these.
Materials Inspection
In-Process Inspection
Final Inspection
Naturally, supplies may need to be checked for quality when they arrive from suppliers. For businesses such as food and pharmaceuticals, this examination, also known as pre-production inspection, may entail checking for an expiration date. It might also include strength testing or verifying pieces to ensure they satisfy weight and design criteria before going into production.
In-process inspection, also known as DUPRO (During Production Inspection), is used by practically all firms. This method may include visual inspections, physical measures for length or breadth, weight checks, colour checks, mix measurement, temperature, viscosity, and other features. The concept of DUPRO is to monitor and detect quality concerns before they arise or as they occur, hence reducing overall quality impact or allowing for less expensive redo.
The final inspection is where the quality specialist measures the finished items to confirm they were manufactured to specification. Many of the same tests used for in-process inspection may be included, and commodities such as appliances or electronics may necessitate testing of the unit itself.
Quality control in manufacturing is critical for a number of reasons. For starters, excellent manufacturing indicates that a company's procedures are well-designed and running smoothly. Quality items will be produced as part of an optimised process. A decrease in quality might suggest a faulty procedure somewhere along the line.
Second, quality control is critical in terms of cost. Material lost due to poor quality not only jeopardises the supply chain and buying system, but it also raises waste disposal expenses and can have an influence on a company's compliance with numerous environmental standards. These expenses for quality fallout rise when each value-added step in the form of labour or material modification is added to the manufactured products. A completed unit that is rejected due to quality will cost a corporation more than the materials used to begin manufacturing.
Finally, quality control is critical to the reputation of a company's brand. Excessive quality fallout can lead to missed delivery dates, jeopardising customer happiness and increasing the likelihood of valued customers abandoning ship.
Real-time monitoring of quality measurement devices can enable the quick deployment and rectification of quality problems when they arise by automating many of the operations that assure quality. Many of these processes may be configured for autonomous or semi-autonomous actions that result in lightning-fast reactions using a smart manufacturing platform that leverages analytics and IIoT.
These technologies collaborate with quality management systems (QMS) to provide insights throughout the company. QMS creates a closed-loop digital record system to preserve customer satisfaction and regulatory compliance for sensitive items. The quality process may be set on a road of continuous improvement by using common but automated Six Sigma methods like PDCA.
DoFort's QMS can reduce quality gaps and produce predictable and repeatable quality every time. Why waste time, effort, and labour on manual Pareto charts, fishbone diagrams, and control sheets when Plex can do it faster, more profitably, and with fewer headaches? Contact us today to see how DoFort can help you improve your manufacturing quality.
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