Quality

Layered Process Audit (LPA): A Proactive Quality Management Tool

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Layered process audit

Introduction In today’s competitive manufacturing environment, ensuring consistent product quality and process compliance is critical. Traditional audits often occur too late in the process, catching defects only after they have occurred. Layered Process Audit (LPA) addresses this by proactively checking processes at multiple organizational levels, including operators, supervisors, managers, and executives. What is a Layered … Read more

A Day in the Life of a Quality Manager: Balancing Quality, People, and Processes

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Quality Manager daily routine

Introduction A Quality Manager’s role is often misunderstood as simply “preparing documents or checking for defects.” In reality, it’s a dynamic position that requires balancing quality assurance, people management, and process optimization. Whether in manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, or services, a Quality Manager is the glue that holds the quality management system (QMS) together. Every day … Read more

Difference between quality control and quality assurance

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Quality Control: Quality control is a process employed to ensure a certain level of quality in a product and process. It may include whatever actions an industry takes to provide for the control and verification of certain characteristics of a product and process. The basic goal of quality control is to ensure that the product … Read more