What do QA and QC mean?

QA is the abbreviation of Quality Assurance, which means quality assurance. QC is the abbreviation of quality control, which means quality management.

The following are the specific meanings of QA and QC:

1. Quality assurance

QA, QUALITY ASSURANCE, which means "quality assurance" in Chinese, is defined in ISO 8402: 1994 as "all planned and systematic activities implemented in the quality management system, and verified as required, so as to provide sufficient trust and show that the entity can meet the quality requirements". Some organizations that implement ISO9000 will set up such departments or posts to be responsible for the quality assurance functions required by ISO9000 standards, and the personnel who hold such jobs are called QA personnel.

2. Quality control

QC is the abbreviation of English quality control, and Chinese is "quality control". In ISO 9000: 20 15, quality management is defined as "guiding and controlling the quality coordination activities of the organization". Quality control is defined as "a part of quality management, committed to meeting quality requirements". According to the control characteristics and sequence of products in the process, product quality control can be divided into four stages: incoming quality control (IQC), process quality control (IPQC), final inspection and verification (FQC) and ex-factory quality control (OQC). In order to meet the quality requirements, the organization will set up quality management and quality control departments, and arrange quality control personnel engaged in quality control functions. Generally, quality control functions are shared by quality inspectors (QC) and quality engineers (QE).

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Can you distinguish QC, QA and QM? . Food industry science and technology [citation time 20 18-5-2]