Quality

In engineering and manufacturing, the Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) tolerance symbols or system defines and communicate the design intent about a part’s geometry and tolerances. On engineering drawings, GD&T uses symbols to express these specifications.  What is GD&T? Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing is an International language that uses symbols and standards. GD&T symbols are […]

MACE stands for Maruti Centre of Excellence, and VSA stands for Vendor System Audit. MACE Audit or Vendor System Audit (VSA) checklist consists of 19 clauses as listed below: Clause1: Production preparation / New Product Development   Audit Area   Concerning Regulation 1 Regarding the implementation rule of production preparation 1 Do you define the

What is System Audit? System Audit focus on the comprehensiveness and effectiveness of fundamental procedures against specified management standard and customer-specific requirements to determine the quality capability of the QM system. There are various quality management system standards like VDA 6.1, IATF 16949, ISO 9001, and AS 9100, etc. VDA 6.1 is the German automotive

Quality factors are taken into consideration while designing the product and the manufacturing process to achieve desired quality. As we know that Quality depends mainly on customer’s perceptions. Hence, it is essential that all product features or product and service characteristics must be built in the design and maintained in manufacturing which the customer would

A Quality Circle or Quality Control Circle is a group of people from the same area, coming together voluntarily to identify, analyze the work area problems, and find effective solutions. The quality circle members present the solutions to management and implement them after approval. Review and follow-up of implementation are also the responsibility of the

Quality Assurance and Quality Control activities are part of a Quality System or Quality Management System. QA includes QC. QA contains all those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a product or service will satisfy/fulfill given requirements for Quality. Quality Control is a set of activities for ensuring quality in the Products. See Differences :

Quality Assurance Purpose Quality Assurance serves the main two purposes – 1. To assure that all is well,  e.g the procedures are being followed, the process is performing normally, the product is fit for use.        2. To provide an early warning that all is not well and some corrective action is required.  Quality Assurance