What You Need to Know about Quality Control and Defects?

Defects are inevitable in almost any manufacturing or production environment, but what’s important is how you handle them and how much you let them affect your work or your business. For example, do you know how to classify defects? Here’s what you need to know about defects and quality control in the workplace.

1) Introduction

When it comes to quality control, defects are inevitable. We can’t avoid them, but we can make sure they don’t affect our product or service. In today’s modern business world, customers are more demanding than ever before. If there is a single tiny defect in our product or service, we risk losing many potential customers who just won’t take any chances with their money. That being said, what can you do to mitigate your risk of producing defective products? Read on for some easy tips that will help you control your quality costs and your overall production costs. Learn how to prevent defects from occurring by finding out what exactly constitutes a defect and how common it is for a product or service not to be perfect.

2) Classification of Defects

In order to understand quality control and defects, it is important to first understand the classification of defects. Many organizations will use a standard 8 class categorization for defects: Design, Machine, Materials, Measurement (testing), Assembly, Procedure (work instructions), People, and Shipping damage. Organizations can customize their defect categories as they see fit. These are just general guidelines that you can use as you develop your quality control strategy.

3) Impact Analysis

An important part of quality control, impact analysis looks at potential ways in which a problem can occur (and affect your process or product) so that you can fix them before they happen. For example, an employee could accidentally over-pour ingredients into a batch of finished goods while mixing them during production. This would affect your profit margin as well as potentially create a risk for consumers (poisonous food is bad for business). The impact analysis helps you identify issues like these so that you can get ahead of them in a cost-effective way.

4) Sources

ISO 9000, ASTM F1975-13, ASQ Z1.4-2003 – Standard Terminology for Quality, ISO 25000 – Societal Security–Requirements for Documentation of Systematic Technical Products Certification Bodies (CTBs) activities under ISO/IEC 17021-1:2007 to ISO/IEC 17021-3:2010. ASTM E2500 – Standard Guide for Event Notification Logging Requirements, Risk Analysis Processes, and Event Reporting Requirements for Process Safety Management Systems. ASME BPV Code Section VIII Division 1 Subsection J Chapter IX – Events That May Affect Equipment Reliability. AC 20 Health & Safety Program Manual Table II.A.-A 2 – Injury Factors Number of Involved Employees / Frequency Rate per million opportunities.

Quality Control

When inspecting or testing a product or service, quality control services are used to ensure that it meets both internal standards (company’s standards) and external standards (industry’s standards). We use quality control regularly in our daily lives without knowing it. When we examine a loaf of bread, for example, we look at many factors: the color of bread, the smell of bread, the texture of bread, etc. This way we can compare what has been produced today versus yesterday or last week. In many industries such as semiconductor manufacturing industries, visual inspection along with other tests are essential in determining whether a chip is defective or not. When we inspect our electronic devices at home they have undergone some sort of quality control from their assembly at the factory up until arriving on store shelves ready for purchase.

Common Defects

There are many different types of defects that can occur on an assembly line. A defect is defined as a problem with a product in manufacturing; an error made during the production of a product that causes it not to perform properly or not to meet certain specifications. Quality defects may happen for several reasons, including improper: design, process control, materials, or workmanship. If a worker does not have proper training in his job function, he could make errors or mistakes resulting in poor quality.

ConclusionThe difference between defects and non-conformities can seem quite technical, but it’s really not. When we talk about defects versus non-conformities in quality control, we’re simply talking about how we label things that go wrong. When you create your own Quality inspection services, you should remember that conformance problems are possible, but they may not always be so easy to identify. If you want your plans for quality control to succeed, make sure that you have a solid understanding of what a defect or a non-conformance is (or isn’t) in your industry.