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91. Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Quality Plan
Stable section ID: S05-CON-015-SECTION-92 · 17 content blocks
Quality Assurance (QA) is the planned and systematic framework used to provide justified confidence that processes, organizations, and controls are capable of producing conforming outcomes.
Quality Control (QC) is the operational examination, measurement, inspection, testing, and disposition of actual materials, Processes, and Products.
A Quality Plan is the project-, Product-, facility-, or Process-specific definition of how applicable quality requirements will be achieved and demonstrated.
A Quality Plan should identify:
responsibilities and authority;
controlled documents and baselines;
supplier qualification;
Process controls;
inspection and test points;
sampling and acceptance rules;
equipment calibration;
nonconformity control;
corrective action;
records and traceability;
final release requirements.
QA is primarily concerned with confidence in the system of work. QC is primarily concerned with evidence from the work and its outputs. Neither replaces the other.
Successful final inspection shall not excuse an uncontrolled production process. Similarly, a certified quality system shall not prove that a particular Product conforms.