Publisher's Synopsis
Quality control has an emerging importance in every field of life. Quality control is a process that is used to guarantee a certain level of quality in a product or service. Quality control is a standard which certainly has become a style of living. With the improvement of technology every day, we meet new and complicated devices and methods in different fields. Quality control explains the directed use of testing to measure the achievement of a specific standard. It might include whatever actions a business deems necessary to provide for the control and verification of certain characteristics of a product or service. Quality management systems have been developing since the beginning of industrial goods production. Producers of goods with higher quality had advantages for fight with competitors and high quality products were the main way how to satisfy customers. Although quality products are still necessary for success on the market, quality itself does not make nowadays business. Since the end of eighties new kind of companies appeared. These companies were orientated not only on quality goods production, but mainly on branding. For these companies quality product was just one fourth of their marketing mix, whose management under certain brand was to satisfy customers. The resting parts of marketing mix are e.g. the price, place of purchase and accompanying services, or promotion quality. The original sense of brand was to label product with the place of origin and name of producer, which together had served as a guarantee of quality. Due to sophisticated marketing methods can brand nowadays bring to customer whole battery of emotional values, which can sort customers into varying social groups. The satisfaction of customers is not brought only by the product quality, but also by emotions connected with social enlistment of brand. Brand management added to product new. Contemporary Approaches to Quality Control is comprised of a collection of reviews and research works from international professionals from various parts of the world. The aim of this book is to share useful and practical knowledge about quality control in several fields with the people who want to improve their knowledge. Quality control has become a strategic effective weapon for the successful of various type of organizations. Given its strategic importance, quality management has been implemented in various organizations such as manufacturing and small medium enterprises; higher education as well as public departments. The quality management as a discipline has developed through several phases, starting from 'quality by inspection', 'Statistical Quality Control (SQC)', 'Quality Assurance (QA)', and 'Total Quality Management (TQM)'. The quality which is supposed to be achieved is not a concept which can be controlled by easy, numerical or other means, but it is the control over the intrinsic quality of a test facility and its studies. On the other hand, the quality control of a product aims to verify if all of these defined features are in accordance with the standard definitions and if it will be maintained during the shelf life of the product. The quality control of a product is important to ensure the efficacy and safety of products and its raw-materials. Due to the rapid growth of industries all over the world, efficient, low cost and rapid methods to quality control are a priority. Quality control has an emerging importance in every field of life. Quality control is a process that is used to guarantee a certain level of quality in a product or service. Quality control is a standard which certainly has become a style of living. With the improvement of technology every day, we meet new and complicated devices and methods in different fields. Quality control explains the directed use of testing to measure the achievement of a specific standard. It might include whatever actions a business deems necessary to provide for the control and verification of certain characteristics of a product or service. Quality management systems have been developing since the beginning of industrial goods production. Producers of goods with higher quality had advantages for fight with competitors and high quality products were the main way how to satisfy customers. Although quality products are still necessary for success on the market, quality itself does not make nowadays business. Since the end of eighties new kind of companies appeared. These companies were orientated not only on quality goods production, but mainly on branding. For these companies quality product was just one fourth of their marketing mix, whose management under certain brand was to satisfy customers. The resting parts of marketing mix are e.g. the price, place of purchase and accompanying services, or promotion quality. The original sense of brand was to label product with the place of origin and name of producer, which together had served as a guarantee of quality. Due to sophisticated marketing methods can brand nowadays bring to customer whole battery of emotional values, which can sort customers into varying social groups. The satisfaction of customers is not brought only by the product quality, but also by emotions connected with social enlistment of brand. Brand management added to product new. Contemporary Approaches to Quality Control is comprised of a collection of reviews and research works from international professionals from various parts of the world. The aim of this book is to share useful and practical knowledge about quality control in several fields with the people who want to improve their knowledge. Quality control has become a strategic effective weapon for the successful of various type of organizations. Given its strategic importance, quality management has been implemented in various organizations such as manufacturing and small medium enterprises; higher education as well as public departments. The quality management as a discipline has developed through several phases, starting from 'quality by inspection', 'Statistical Quality Control (SQC)', 'Quality Assurance (QA)', and 'Total Quality Management (TQM)'. The quality which is supposed to be achieved is not a concept which can be controlled by easy, numerical or other means, but it is the control over the intrinsic quality of a test facility and its studies. On the other hand, the quality control of a product aims to verify if all of these defined features are in accordance with the standard definitions and if it will be maintained during the shelf life of the product. The quality control of a product is important to ensure the efficacy and safety of products and its raw-materials. Due to the rapid growth of industries all over the world, efficient, low cost and rapid methods to quality control are a priority. Quality control has an emerging importance in every field of life. Quality control is a process that is used to guarantee a certain level of quality in a product or service. Quality control is a standard which certainly has become a style of living. With the improvement of technology every day, we meet new and complicated devices and methods in different fields. Quality control explains the directed use of testing to measure the achievement of a specific standard. It might include whatever actions a business deems necessary to provide for the control and verification of certain characteristics of a product or service. Quality management systems have been developing since the beginning of industrial goods production. Producers of goods with higher quality had advantages for fight with competitors and high quality products were the main way how to satisfy customers. Although quality products are still necessary for success on the market, quality itself does not make nowadays business. Since the end of eighties new kind of companies appeared. These companies were orientated not only on quality goods production, but mainly on branding. For these companies quality product was just one fourth of their marketing mix, whose management under certain brand was to satisfy customers. The resting parts of marketing mix are e.g. the price, place of purchase and accompanying services, or promotion quality. The original sense of brand was to label product with the place of origin and name of producer, which together had served as a guarantee of quality. Due to sophisticated marketing methods can brand nowadays bring to customer whole battery of emotional values, which can sort customers into varying social groups. The satisfaction of customers is not brought only by the product quality, but also by emotions connected with social enlistment of brand. Brand management added to product new. Contemporary Approaches to Quality Control is comprised of a collection of reviews and research works from international professionals from various parts of the world. The aim of this book is to share useful and practical knowledge about quality control in several fields with the people who want to improve their knowledge. Quality control has become a strategic effective weapon for the successful of various type of organizations. Given its strategic importance, quality management has been implemented in various organizations such as manufacturing and small medium enterprises; higher education as well as public departments. The quality management as a discipline has developed through several phases, starting from 'quality by inspection', 'Statistical Quality Control (SQC)', 'Quality Assurance (QA)', and 'Total Quality Management (TQM)'. The quality which is supposed to be achieved is not a concept which can be controlled by easy, numerical or other means, but it is the control over the intrinsic quality of a test facility and its studies. On the other hand, the quality control of a product aims to verify if all of these defined features are in accordance with the standard definitions and if it will be maintained during th