What is difference between Quality Assurance and Quality Control?

Quality Assurance (QA) is concerned with preventing quality issues through systematic planning and process improvement, while Quality Control (QC) is focused on detecting and addressing quality problems through inspection and testing. QA is proactive and preventive in nature, whereas QC is reactive and corrective. Got more questions? Check our FAQ page and find the answer you're looking for!

Quality Control

Easily Control Quality Outcomes

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Timely Track Defects & Provide Step-by-Step Instructions

DELMIA Apriso Quality Control (QC) puts you back in control of your quality program – across the distributed environment you now operate. When quality processes are executed manually, create plans, then the comprehensive quality assurance (QA) software manages the master planning data and controls execution on the plant floor, tightly coordinated with production, maintenance and warehouse operations through DELMIA Apriso's unified database. Product inspection plans are version-controlled with full traceability of changes. Inspection and step-by-step quality instructions can be integrated into the operator's unified interface for production, maintenance or warehouse processes. As businesses try to ensure that product quality is maintained or improved, step-by-step directed execution is delivered as in-line checklists, work instructions, safety instructions, or documents.

DELMIA Apriso 3D Visual Quality Defect Tracking (3D VQDT) helps speed up defect reporting with greater accuracy and adds a powerful new visual level to analysis. It allows users to report visual quality defects from 3D models with greater accuracy. The 3D model can be imported along with product information, making it easier to create and maintain product visualizations in a 3DXML format that would normally require the maintenance of several product images and snapshots. It is intuitive and easy-to-use for quality inspectors, production line, warehouse workers and others responsible for product quality. The 3D product image can be sourced from a variety of applications, including PLM, CAD drawings, etc. to enable a more complete and accurate quality analysis.

Key Benefits:

Enables continuous improvement
Provides rapid response to market changes
Links multiple images to one product record

DELMIA Apriso Containment Manager provides users with full control of responding to and containing a quality non-conformance rapidly and effectively to prevent nonconforming product from escaping operations, entering distribution channels or reaching customers. Containment management can be a critical element to help address regulatory compliance requirements, resulting in improved products quality to achieve and sustain manufacturing operations excellence. A graphical user interface allows monitoring of the full quality containment process until final resolution of the issue.

Key Benefits:

Improves customer satisfaction
Reduces risk to brand
Minimizes production and customer disruptions

DELMIA Apriso Issue Management is a comprehensive enterprise solution that leverages a DELMIA Apriso unified data model and spans the wide footprint of manufacturing. It allows quick identification of root causes and corrective actions, accelerating resolution on any event that might disrupt or hinder objectives – from maintaining high quality standards to implementing continuous improvement initiatives across any part of manufacturing operations.

Key Benefits:

Simplifies issue resolution and prevention
Enhances operational excellence
Reduces the cost of quality

DELMIA Apriso Quality Planning provides powerful capabilities to plan quality inspection for one plant or many, ensuring manufacturing quality assurance programs are implemented and tracked consistently across the enterprise. Create plans in DELMIA Apriso Quality Planning, or an external system. Our comprehensive quality assurance software manages the master planning data. It controls execution on the plant floor, tightly coordinated with production, maintenance, and warehouse operations through a DELMIA Apriso unified database. It supports schedules based on time, quantity, or events and allows the creation, maintenance, and execution of Sampling Procedures, supporting lot-by-lot product inspections compliant with the ISO-2859 standard.

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