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In engineering and manufacturing, quality control and quality engineering are
involved in developing systems to ensure products or services are designed and
produced to meet or exceed customer requirements. These systems are often
developed in conjunction with other business and engineering disciplines using a
cross-functional approach.
History
When the first specialized craftsmen arose manufacturing tools for others, the
principle of quality control was simple: "let the buyer beware" (caveat emptor).
Early civil engineering projects, however, needed to be built to specifications.
For instance, the four sides of the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza are
perpendicular to within 3.5 arcseconds.
Craft and tradespersons
During the Middle Ages, guilds took the responsibility of quality control upon
themselves.
Royal governments purchasing material were interested in quality control as
customers. For instance, King John of England appointed a certain William
Wrotham to supervise the construction and repair of ships. Some centuries later,
but also in England, Samuel Pepys, Secretary to the Admiralty, appointed
multiple such overseers.
Prior to the extensive division of labor and mechanization resulting from the
Industrial Revolution, it was possible for workers to control the quality of
their own products. Working conditions then were more conducive to professional
pride.
The Industrial Revolution led to a system in which large groups of people
performing a similar type of work were grouped together under the supervision of
a foreman who also took on the responsibility to control the quality of work
manufactured.
Quality Assurance has developed a good deal during the last 80-90 years (in
about 20 year intervals) from its inception to the current state of the art.
Wartime production
During World War I, the manufacturing process became more complex, and the
introduction of large numbers of workers being supervised by a foreman
designated to ensure the quality of the work, which was being produced. This
period also introduced mass production and piecework, which created quality
problems as workmen could now earn more money by the production of extra
products, which in turn led to bad workmanship being passed on to the assembly
lines.
Due to the large amount of bad workmanship being produced, the first full time
inspectors were introduced into the large-scale modern factory. These full time
inspectors were the real beginning of inspection quality control, and this was
the beginning the large inspection organizations of the 1920s and 1930s, which
were separately organised from production and big enough to be headed by
superintendents.
The systematic approach to quality started in industrial manufacture during the
1930s, mostly in the USA, when some attention was given to the cost of scrap and
rework. With the impact of mass production, which was required during the Second
World War, it became necessary to introduce a more stringent form of quality
control which can be identified as Statistical Quality Control, or SQC. Some of
the initial work for SQC is credited to Walter A. Shewhart of Bell Labs,
starting with his famous one-page memorandum of 1924.
This system came about with the realisation that quality cannot be inspected
into an item. By extending the inspection phase and making inspection
organizations more efficient, it provides inspectors with control tools such as
sampling and control charts.
SQC had a significant contribution in that it provided a sampling inspection
system rather than a 100 per cent inspection. This type of inspection however
did lead to a lack of realisation to the importance of the engineering of
product quality.
For example, if you have a basic sampling scheme with an acceptance level of 4%,
what happens is you have a ratio of 96% products released onto the market with
4% defective items – this obviously is a fair risk for any company/customer –
unless you happen to be one of the unfortunate buyers of a defective item.
Postwar
After World War II, the United States continued to apply the concepts of
inspection and sampling to remove defective product from production lines.
However, there were many individuals trying to lead U.S. industries towards a
more collaborative approach to quality. Excluding the U.S., many countries'
manufacturing capabilities were destroyed during the war. This placed American
business in a position where advances in the collaborative approaches to quality
were essentially ignored.
After World War II, the U.S. sent General Douglas MacArthur to oversee the
re-building of Japan. During this time, General MacArthur invited two key
individuals in the development of modern quality concepts: W. Edwards Deming and
Joseph Juran. Both individuals promoted the collaborative concepts of quality to
Japanese business and technical groups, and these groups utilized these concepts
in the redevelopment of the Japanese economy.
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance covers all activities from design, development, production,
installation, servicing and documentation. This introduced the rules: "fit for
purpose" and "do it right the first time". It includes the regulation of the
quality of raw materials, assemblies, products and components; services related
to production; and management, production, and inspection processes.
One of the most widely used paradigms for QA management is the PDCA
(Plan-Do-Check-Act) approach, also known as the Shewhart cycle.
Failure testing
A valuable process to perform on a whole consumer product is failure testing,
the operation of a product until it fails, often under stresses such as
increasing vibration, temperature and humidity. This exposes many unanticipated
weaknesses in a product, and the data is used to drive engineering and
manufacturing process improvements. Often quite simple changes can dramatically
improve product service, such as changing to mould-resistant paint or adding
lock-washer placement to the training for new assembly personnel.
Statistical control
Many organizations use statistical process control to bring the organization to
Six Sigma levels of quality, in other words, so that the likelihood of an
unexpected failure is confined to six standard deviations on the normal
distribution. This probability is less than four one-millionths. Items
controlled often include clerical tasks such as order-entry as well as
conventional manufacturing tasks.
Traditional statistical process controls in manufacturing operations usually
proceed by randomly sampling and testing a fraction of the output. Variances of
critical tolerances are continuously tracked, and manufacturing processes are
corrected before bad parts can be produced.
Company quality
During the 1980s, the concept of “company quality” with the focus on management
and people came to the fore. It was realised that, if all departments approached
quality with an open mind, success was possible if the management led the
quality improvement process.
The company-wide quality approach places an emphasis on three aspects :-
Elements such as controls, job management, adequate processes, performance and
integrity criteria and identification of records
Competence such as knowledge, skills, experience, qualifications
Soft elements, such as personnel integrity, confidence, organisational culture,
motivation, team spirit and quality relationships.
The quality of the outputs is at risk if any of these three aspects are
deficient in any way.
The approach to quality management given here is therefore not limited to the
manufacturing theatre only but can be applied to any business activity:
Design work
Administrative services
Consulting
Banking
Insurance
Computer software
Retailing
Transportation
It comprises a quality improvement process, which is generic in the sense it can
be applied to any of these activities and it establishes a behaviour pattern,
which supports the achievement of quality.
This in turn is supported by quality management practices which can include a
number of business systems and which are usually specific to the activities of
the business unit concerned.
In manufacturing and construction activities, these business practices can be
equated to the models for quality assurance defined by the International
Standards contained in the ISO 9000 series and the specified Specifications for
quality systems.
Still, in the system of Company Quality, the work being carried out was shop
floor inspection which did not control the major quality problems. This led to
quality assurance or total quality control, which has come into being recently.
Total quality control
Total Quality Control is the most necessary inspection control of all in cases
where, despite statistical quality control techniques or quality improvements
implemented, sales decrease.
The major problem which leads to a decrease in sales was that the specifications
did not include the most important factor, “What the customer required”.
The major characteristics, ignored during the search to improve manufacture and
overall business performance were:
Reliability
Maintainability
Safety
As the most important factor had been ignored, a few refinements had to be
introduced:
Marketing had to carry out their work properly and define the customer’s
specifications.
Specifications had to be defined to conform to these requirements.
Conformance to specifications i.e. drawings, standards and other relevant
documents, were introduced during manufacturing, planning and control.
Management had to confirm all operators are equal to the work imposed on them
and holidays, celebrations and disputes did not affect any of the quality
levels.
Inspections and tests were carried out, and all components and materials, bought
in or otherwise, conformed to the specifications, and the measuring equipment
was accurate, this is the responsibility of the QA/QC department.
Any complaints received from the customers were satisfactorily dealt with in a
timely manner.
Feedback from the user/customer is used to review designs.
Consistent data recording and assessment and documentation integrity.
Product and/or process change management and notification.
If the original specification does not reflect the correct quality requirements,
quality cannot be inspected or manufactured into the product.
For instance, all parameters for a pressure vessel should include not only the
material and dimensions but operating, environmental, safety, reliability and
maintainability requirements.
To conclude, the above forms the basis from which the philosophy of Quality
Assurance has evolved, and the achievement of quality or the
“fitness-for-purpose” is “Quality Awareness” throughout the company
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