Application Of Quality Control And Measurement

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Nick Burt. Application of quality control and measurement in engineering. 1. List six words with brief explanations that relate to quality as applied to manufactured products. • Sign off’s: Individual quality sign off for each component to allow accountability and traceability. • Standards: Companies in manufacturing will have a set certain of standards to work to. • Accuracy: Could relate to accuracy of machining or the checking after completion. • Life span: All manufactured parts will have a certain lifespan which is dependent on the use and frequency of. • Specification: Quality parts will be made to a certain predefined specification. • Inspection: The last part in the manufacturing process is to ensure all parts meet requirements via inspection. 2. State a recognised definition of quality. • The term quality in manufacturing covers a whole variety of areas but the best way to think about quality ‘in process control’ and ‘quick fault finding’ “Quality in engineering and manufacturing has a pragmatic interpretation as the non – inferiority or superiority of something. Quality is a perceptual, conditional and somewhat subjective attribute and may be perceived differently by different people. Consumers may focus on the specification of quality of a product / service, or how it compares to competitors in the market place. Producers might measure the conformance quality, or degree to which the product / service was produced correctly.” (the wikipedia.org definition of quality) 3. Explain what is meant by the terms : a) Quality Standards – Will differ between companies, but can be summed up as list of specifications, rules and requirements that all work done by that company must adhere to. b) Quality Assurance – Is the process of checking and deciding whether products or services fail, meet

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