Definitions
Quality Checks
Quality Checks (may be also named Quality Controls) are among the standards that food and processing firms must meet.
A quality check might be used to validate the conformance of a received, shipped, manufactured or assembled item or to validate teh conformance of a tehcnical resource (machine, mean of transport) with the company predefined standards.
Additionally, quality checks can be performed periodically, while the object is being stored.
A quality check might be recorded for a specific item (with lot or serial number) and/or document (sales order, shipment, etc…)
Quality Methods
Quality Methods are quality measurement that the quality manager may define. This could be interpreted as questions that the user running the quality check should respond to, such as:
- What is the current temperature?
- What is the item state? (Perfect, Damaged, etc…)
- What is the license plate of the truck that delivered the item?
- What is the grading of the lot?
- Etc…
Quality Specification (QCS)
A quality specification is a set of quality methods (basically a list of questions) that need to be performed.
Quality Specification can be assigned to an item or document type.
When operating a quality check on the item or document type, then the quality user (auditor) will get the list of all the specified quality methods for that specific item/document type (kind of a checklist).
When defining Quality Specification, it is possible to assign target values on quality methods (for example target temperature is between 0 and 5 degrees).
Quality Check (QC)
Quality Check is the actual recording of the Quality Specification assigned to a lot/serie number or a specific document.
Quality Check contains quality check lines that are based on the retrieved quality methods.