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As an owner or manager, how can you ensure product quality?

Here is a list of a couple of the ways you can ensure the quality of products:

1) Quality control tests and inspections are a great way to help ensure the quality of your products! You can have a live inspector or tester come to your company to perform an audit. However, with the development of technology, you might also be able to have an automated inspection. The option of an automated inspection or test depends on the type of industry and testing that you need completed. Some industries do not lend themselves well to this kind of testing. For example, in circumstances where smell, texture, appearance, and product performance are important, live inspectors will need to be used. In addition, instead of hiring a live inspector to come to your company, you also can hire an individual within your company who will be trained in quality inspection. This is becoming another popular option for people to ensure the quality of products, particularly because then the company won't need to hire an additional person! For example, you could hire a production worker who has regular assigned tasks, with quality control as an additional task. By training this way, you'll not only be able to get two things done with the same employee, but you'll also save money.

2) Computer software is another way that can help you to ensure the quality of your products. For example, SigmaQuest Inc. is one of the leading software providers which help to manage the manufacturers' product quality. SigmaQuest is especially helpful in working to increase your product performance. Recently, SigmaQuest announced that its software has been updated - now it helps OEMs track the quality of products that must adhere to the RoHs Directive. The RoHs is the Restriction of the use of specific Hazardous Substances. There are revised levels of chemical substances and metals that are in this directive. If your company needs to adhere to these rules in their quality testing, SigmaQuest's software might be helpful in ensuring the quality of your products.

3) Charts and graphs can also help in the process of ensuring the quality of products. These charts and graphs can help to map out whether the products are meeting quality specifications. Generally it is a good idea to use these charts and maps after having an inspection, test, or quality experiment completed. After looking at these maps and charts, you will be able to get a better idea of what your company does or doesn't need to do to improve the quality of products. For example, you can make a line graph to show the current quality or performance of your products, and to show how close they are to the target goal you would like to have. There are also companies which can help to draw up these graphs and charts for you. For example, Stat Soft is a company which can create these graphs for you. These graphs and charts are a great way for you to consistently ensure quality control in your company, because they can be constantly referred to and modified as you achieve your different goals of quality control.