Quality management is essential to a successful marine operation. Each product you turn out needs to be perfect before launching. So can you check the quality of your work during the building and production rather than after the fact? Your reputation as a company will depend on the satisfaction of your clients and the safety of the boats and ships you build. There are four principles that manufacturing companies use to ensure that their product is top quality before being handed off to the end user. Let’s take a closer look at what will improve your quality management program moving forward.
Quality planning
The first step to creating a quality program that can help your company achieve greater success for your build clients is to begin with a quality planning process. What aspects need to be inspected along the way? How can you prioritize parts of the build? Can you create a check-list based system to make this process uniform?
Quality assurance
The planning you’ve done to create the processes then becomes your quality assurance program. This is what you can sell to clients to demonstrate your dedication to building quality products. This will impact every level of your quality program from the build to the delivery. It will give your clients peace of mind that you are ensuring the safety of each product you sell.
Quality control
While the terms quality assurance and quality control are often used interchangeably, it is important to note the subtle differences. By setting a quality control standard, you’ve created the basis for all future projects to be judged against. This control build is the level of quality you want to achieve with each subsequent build.
Quality improvement
But your quality program shouldn’t start and end with assurance and control. In fact, long-term improvements will be essential to success. As technologies change or issues are discovered along the way, your marine company will be responsible for improving the overall process and ensuring that each subsequent build is not only the same as the previous ones but better.
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