10 Steps to improved productivity: Quality control and welding productivity

摘要

It may seem a contradiction in terms to relate quality control with improved productivity, and there are still those who would say - we have enough problems in turning out the products without having to contend with a lot of Quality Control activity, or worse still, its big brother QA! However, production is only successfully achieved when the products are made to the required quality. It is only production with quality, not production instead of it, that counts, and only products of the right quality should ever leave the manufacturers works. Productivity and quality go hand in hand. If a company hasn't achieved the quality, it hasn't produced. Management for quality production Because all quality control activities necessarily involve time, effort, equipment, materials, associated costs, etc, the nature and extent of quality control applied must be sufficient, and no more, to give the right balance of product output with an assurance of quality achieved.