Quality Assurance Definition

Quality Assurance Definition The planned and systematic activities necessary to provide adequate confidence that the product or service will meet the given requirements.

Quality Control Definition The operational techniques and individual activities that focus on controlling or regulating processes and materials to fulfill requirements for quality. The focus is on preventing defective products or services from being passed on.

Quality Systems Definition The defined organizational structure, responsibilities, processes, procedures and resources for implementing and coordinating the QA and QC functions.

Calibration Definition The comparison of a measurement instrument to a measurement instrument of known accuracy to detect any variation from the required performance specification

For the differences between Quality Assurance Definition and Quality control Definition see this page.