Building a Quality by Quality by Design (QbD) and Quality Culture
The quality of a product does not occur on its own. People throughout an organization do not always carry out instructions or perform their role correctly. It is the continuing task of quality management to deal with this situation and ensure that all members of the industrial team are aware of their quality responsibilities and are accountable for their actions. Quality must be designed into products– discipline, attitude and inventiveness must be encouraged to create easy to make and easy to use fool proof products. Quality must then be planned into manufacture – methods must be devised so that the easiest way to do the job is the right one; so that, where appropriate, worker interest is created; and elsewhere complete control is built into the process. Finally, quality must be built into the product– the people concerned with the cutting, fitting and assembling must be well trained and enthusiastically led to achieve “right first time” production. This is the simple overall formula,