Citation:

Ioana-Alexandra SBÎRCEA, Elena Fleacă, Dr. Habil. "Theoretical Research in Quality Control in Manufacturing" International Research Journal of Economics and Management Studies, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 307-317, 2024.

Abstract:

In business, quality has proven to be difficult to define. Many individuals associate quality with some degree of greatness or natural superiority, while others see it as simply the absence of manufacturing flaws. It is a simple notion to understand that quality control considerations are or ought to be an integral element of all industrial activities. Additionally, this theory is presently getting a lot of attention in the manufacturing industry as a result of the growing difficulty in producing goods that are both cost- and utility-competitive in the global market. This means that virtually always it is undesirable to produce goods that are not suitable for their intended purpose (junk) in today’s industrial processes. Numerous options may be put up to address this scenario and regulate the level of completed workpiece quality. Under pressure from globalization, manufacturing businesses are refocusing their efforts on three important areas of competition: quality, cost, and response. Quality is a global virtue that has drawn interest from all across the world. To stay in business and be able to please their customers, manufacturing companies need to monitor their operations and improve the quality of their products. Manufacturing companies employ a variety of quality control strategies to reduce process variability and improve process quality. There are numerous ways to control the quality of a procedure or a final result. These comprise seven Statistical Process Control (SPC) tools: acceptance sampling, Six Sigma, failure mechanism and effects analysis, quality control implementation, and Design of Experiments (DoE).

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Keywords:

Quality, Quality control, Total quality management, Quality system, PDCA.