Quality Control and
Acceptance Sampling
Oller, Mark Angelo O. L.
BSBA – Management
Production & Operations Mgt.
Purpose of Quality Control:
- T o assure that processes are performing in an acceptable manner
Quality Control
- A process that evaluates output relative to a standard, and takes
corrective action when output doesn’t meet standards. If the results are
acceptable, no further action is required; unacceptable results call for
corrective action
Quality Control Techniques
– can be applied to an organization’s inputs, transformation system, and
outputs
Acceptance Sampling
– quality control applied to inputs and outputs
Process Control
– quality control applied to the transformation system
INSPECTION
•Is an appraisal activity that compares goods or services to a standard
•Involves determining, sometimes by testing, whether or not an input or
output conforms to organizational standards of quality
it occur at three points:
[Link] production – the logic of checking conformance is to make sure
that inputs are acceptable
[Link] production – the logic of checking conformance is to make sure
that the conversion of inputs into output is proceeding in an acceptable
manner
[Link] production – the logic of checking conformance is to make a final
verification of conformance before passing goods on to customers.
Inspection before and after production often involves ACCEPTANCE
SAMPLING procedure; monitoring during the production process is referred
to as PROCESS CONTROL
INPUTS TRANFORMATION OUTPUTS
Acceptance Sampling - Process Control - Acceptance Sampling
Where to Inspect in the Process?
[Link] RECEIPT OF RESOURCES – checking the quality of raw materials
and purchased parts and supplies, testing equipment for ability to meet
specifications, verifying the skills of the staff
[Link] TRANSFORMATION OPERATIONS BY THE WORKER – if an
operation is expensive, irreversible (such as mixing food ingredients), or
of a concealing nature (such as assemblies, coating, plating)
3. IMMEDIATELY BEFORE ANY BOTTLENECK OPERATION
– there is no advantage in feeding a scarce resource defective items that
simply consume more of its time
[Link] THE FIRST FEW ITEMS COME OUT OF AN AUTOMATIC
OPERATION
[Link] TRANSFORMATION OPERATIONS
[Link] FIND INSPECTION
[Link] CUSTOMERS COMPLAIN, RETURN GOODS, OR REQUIRE SERVICE
Example of inspection points in service organization:
Types of Business Inspection Points Characteristic
Fast food -Cashier Accuracy
-Counter Area Appearance, Productivity
-Eating Area Cleanliness, No loitering
-Building & Ground Appearance,S afety
Hazards
-Kitchen Cleanliness, Purity of
food, Food storage,
Health Regulations
Quality of Conformance
– a product or service conforms to specifications
Statistical Process Control
– to evaluate the output of a process to determine if it is statistically
acceptable
Control Chart
– A statistical tool used to distinguish between variation in a process
resulting from common causes and variation resulting from special causes.
It presents a graphic display of process stability over time.
Purpose of Control Chart:
• To monitor process output to see if it is random
• To monitor the extent to which our products meet specifications. In the
most general terms, there are two "enemies" of product quality:
[Link] from target specifications
[Link] variability around target specifications
How do we develop a control chart?
Developing a control chart consists of four major steps:
Step 1: Determine what to measure
Step 2: Collect the data
Step 3: Plot the data
Step 4: Calculate the control limits
Variable Data
– are measurable characteristic such as weight, temperature, and
diameter.
Attribute Data
– are descriptive characteristic of an output such as acceptable and
defective or good and bad.
Chance Variation(Random)
– is the variability that is built into (actually, allowed to remain in) the
system. There is a “play” between the gears and mechanical parts of
machines; there is variation in the inputs; processing conditions are
variable; and human performance is particularly variable.
Assignable Variation
– occurs because some element of the system or some operating condition
is out of control. A machine may be excessively worn, a part may be
broken, a worker may be mistrained, inspection gages or instruments
may be faulty, and so forth.
Two types of Errors:
1. Type I error – is committed when an innocent defendant (a good-
quality lot) is found guilty (declared “defective”)
2. Type II error – is made when a guilty defendant (a “defective” lot) is
found innocent(declared of good quality)
Variables – generate data that are measured
Attributes – generates data that are counted
Mean Control Chart – control chart used to monitor the central tendency
of a process
Range Control Chart – control chart used to monitor process dispersion
p-Chart – control chart for attributes, used to monitor the proportion of
defective items in a process
c-Chart – control chart for attributes, used to monitor the number of
defects per unit
Run Test
– a test for randomness
Run
– sequence of observation with a certain characteristics
Specifications
– a range of acceptable values established by engineering design or
customer requirements
Process Variability
– natural or inherent variability in a process
Process Capability
– the inherent variability of process output relative to the variation
allowed by the design specification
Acceptance Sampling
Acceptance Sampling – form of inspection applied to lots or batches of
items before or after a process, to judge conformance with
predetermined standards
Sampling Plans – plans that specify lot size, sample size, number of
samples, and acceptance/rejection criteria
Single-Sampling Plan – one random is drawn from each lot and every item
in the sample is examined and classified as either “good” or “defective.”
Double-Sampling Plan – allows for a opportunity to take a second sample
if the results of the initial sample are inconclusive
Multiple-Sampling Plan – similar to a double-sampling pan except that
more than two samples may be required