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The raw materials shall passed incoming quality inspection to assure that the requirements with regards to material specifications have been satisfied. Appearance, dimension, and environment-related chemical substances should be checked to verify that the materials to be used comply with the specifications.During production processes, the proper methods on how to manufacture the product should be follow to achieved the desired quality specification. There are different factors to be considered in order to achieved desired quality. It includes inspection methods, machine parameters settings, working environment, material quality, employee skills, working methods, and others. Trainings on how to perform the process should be done regularly. Introduction of new machines to uplift productivity and quality is also an option.

The campaign to eliminate production wastes such as unnecessary movements, high rejection rates, transportation, overstocks, and others should be properly enforced.Finally, outgoing inspection should be conducted to verify if the products produced in production processes comply with the requirements and specifications of customer. The inspection methods should be based on inspection standards wherein the appearance characteristics, dimensional requirements, and environment-related chemical substances should be checked prior to shipment. Once any abnormality was found during inspection, corrective measures is necessary to implement and re-inspection shall be done if the countermeasures was properly enforced.Quality Assurance Techniques provide you latest information, updates, and techniques about quality management system. There is no best way of doing things, there is always a room for improvement.

Difference Between Quality Assurance (QA) and Value Addition (VA)

Many people, even those who are working as QA, do not know the difference between quality assurance (QA) and value addition (VA). These terms are closely related, but they are different concepts. Though these two are important to manage the risks of creating and publishing a document, it is important the editors understand the differences.

Quality Assurance: Activities designed to ensure that the maintenance process is fulfilled and the end product meets the requirements of the client.

Value Addition: Activities designed to evaluate a created article. This system is designed to check for errors and take the corrective measures to maintain the best quality.

QA activities are there to ensure that the defined process is adequately followed. A QA person will focus on the process activities of a project if any of the process is followed correctly or skipped. QA is process based. It is similar to an activity to set a specific temperature for a controlled environment, and then review if it is followed. VA is a routine check to monitor what an editor do while following the process of editing.

QA and VA are interdependent on each other. While a QA do a routine check on the products during the process and a VA assures if the quality policy and regulations are strictly followed.

VA – product, reactive, line function, find the defects
QA – process, pro-active, staff function, prevent the defects

There is a thin line of difference between these two roles. Yet, there always exist a cold war, a war between a person in the managerial role and a person assuring quality.

Acknowledgment: Knowledge gained by reading various resources available in the net.

I do not know what most people use to write their articles but I prefer to use Microsoft word, because it is an action packed powerhouse. It has features to check my grammar, spelling and even how many words I have for the whole article or even a section as well as a host of other things.

Many people do not use Microsoft word to its fullest potential!

This is know to be true, because I have taught a few classes on Microsoft office and it seems to me that it’s the simplest things that most people have problems with. So I am going to briefly discuss how to use Microsoft word to automatically check for the most common spelling errors and grammar errors. Check out Grammarly for effective information.

Using the spell and grammar checkers

First open a new document within Microsoft word. Once you have it opened and you are ready to type. Open the top tool bar you will see Tools, and options is a sub directory below that. Go ahead and click options and click the spelling and grammar tab. Make sure the little box beside check as you spelling as you type sentence is checked as well as the box where it says to make suggestions. Below the spelling section you will see grammar checking, check the little box beside check grammar as you type sentence.

Spelling errors will now have a red line under them so they are now easy to spot. If you right click the misspelled word a list of possible corrections will appear. By turning on this little item you have made your writing almost typo free. You’ll still need to desk check the article but that will be explained later.

Grammar errors now have a green line under them, making them easy to spot. Sometimes it’s too many spaces between words, but it can also be a wrong kind of comma has been inserted or perhaps it is tat your sentence is a fragment. Anyways just right click on the green line and you’ll see the suggestion word had for you.

No go ahead and type an article or simply open one of the articles you’ve been working on and finish it up. The work you just did by turning on the spell and grammar checker options will improve your writing.

Final thoughts!

Now before you say well I am finished with this article and I have no spelling or grammar errors, think again because there could be other little errors in there just hiding and waiting to create havoc.

The importance of desktop checking is critical because there can be errors with the same sounding words which have different meanings. How many times have you used their instead of there? It’s too simple to do, and the way I remember the difference is there has here in it so that denotes location so the other must show possession. Just think of the words that do that such as one, won, or I and eye. That is why you desk check everything you write. Two, too and to is another set of words that seems to get people. Two is the number, too means also and to means the direction. The first two is easy to remember, just remember 1 o means go, so to means go or direction and the last two will be easier to remember.

If you want to you can also read the article aloud and that will help things as well. Sure you may sound goofy but what the heck, if it helps you then so be it.