Final Project

NATIONAL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND

ECONOMICS
(SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION)

Subject:
Project Management

SUBMITTED TO:
Sir Najmus Saqib Rehmani

SUBMITTED BY:
Muhammad Shariq 2211124
As a project manager, you are concerned with both Prevention
and Inspection while working on a project.
What do you understand by this? Write a convincing
argument that
“Prevention is better than Inspection”

Prevention
 Entails taking preventive steps to ensure that defects do not enter the product

Inspection
 Entails inspecting deliverables for defects or deviations from documented specifications in
order to ensure that the consumer receives deliverables that meet the requirements. 

Prevention is better than Inspection

In modern quality management complements project management and both disciplines recognize
the importance of prevention over inspection. 
Prevention over inspection is one of the fundamental tenets of modern management, it elaborates
that quality is planned, designed, and built-in rather than inspected. Preventing mistakes is
generally less the cost or waste rather than correcting them when found during the inspection.
 
Inspection can reduce the probability of defects but prevention through designing, planning, and
building in quality can reduce the probability of defects for a less cost than through the
inspection process.
 
The major difference highlighted between prevention and inspection is the time where errors are
being isolated. Prevention is about keeping errors in the process while inspection pertains
to keeping the error out of the hands of the customers. With such definition, prevention is the
precedent of inspection which isolates all possible errors to be encountered in the process and
lessens or refrains defected outcomes in the inspection process. Such a classic idea that
prevention is better than cure applies in this case. Why wait to catch sick when you could stop
from having it. With such a concept we can say that prevention and inspection in project
management serve as multi-facet for quality control and assurance.  The argument of which is
better between prevention and inspection obviously prevention will prevail as it serves as the
first level control. The inspection comes into the picture when the preventive measure failed to
accommodate and account for errors during the process. Inspection is the second level that
isolates error before delivering to the customers.
 Explanation
Quality should be prepared, engineered, and built into the project's management and
deliverables, but not inspected. The cost of preventing errors is typically much lower than the
cost of fixing errors that are discovered during inspection or during use. Inspection keeps errors
out of the hands of the customer, while prevention keeps them out of the process.

Prevention is better than Inspection:

As we all know, prevention begins during the manufacturing process, because when the product
is being manufactured, we will make improvements to avoid potential problems. This saves time
and money on logistics, allowing the business to satisfy consumer demand.
For Example
If a commodity has a demand of 100 and 20 of them are defective and submitted for inspection, it would
be difficult to meet the demand.