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Preparation of Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) example

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( SS Tank being fabricated for chemical storage :Supportive document used is QAP. Location: Ahmednagar . Photo from our own colection ) T oday I am going to show you straightaway actual QAP Preparation . Get just relaxed ..no big stuff , no too much technical or heavy words. Just go on reading in simple language.  This QAP was prepared by me way back in 2015. This template can be used for many other streams professionals. And it is useful for each and every quality person and more to novice persons in this field. Before delve into the subject, first I would like to clarify the background.  The end product of boiler at any place is mostly  superheated Steam (Steam with extremely high temperature and pressure.) Such a steam is used to do useful  work (means to run various machines/equipment's in factories. This is case of sugar factory. Pipes used to carry such steam has to protected by some kind of insulation. This is need...
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'Horizontal' and 'Vertical' deployment in quality context

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M any a times we come across the many tech words , such as  ' Horizontal deployment ' or 'Vertical deployment '  , 'Top to Bottom Approach ' or 'Bottom to Top approach.' What's  all this stuff  about ? What this jargon terminology suggests. So if we want to know about it , let's start with 'Horizontal deployment and Vertical deployment.' Let's start with example to grasp the subject straightway. (Photos from our own collection . During training by foreign instructor. Location :Pimpri,Pune ) Example of horizontal deployment :- The incident happened this way. The year was 2017. We can say 😊 now, 'before ' corona era' .  A man on pretext of relative of patient used to go inside various hospitals in the city. Inside the hospital he used to steal syringes and costly medicine bottles that were kept at a place near to patients. The crux was that he never spotted up in CCTV cameras recordings. He might have studied the hospital i...
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One Point Lesson (OPL) with example and its applicability

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#onepointlesson Hi Friends and quality aspirants !  Here today I have come back with one more topic that is OPL ,One point Lesson. As usual I try to keep off  typical definitions of terms or typical jargon  and try to explain it in very very simple language, so that a novice /beginner in this Quality department can easily get this very important and useful quality tool. So basically what is One Point Lesson and Where to use it ?                                                                                                        (photo credit :iStock)       OPL is a way or means to communicate/educate the working team for :-     1> Basic things related to any process / machine / work e...
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Welcome

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                                   Welcome to our new blog                                                  A B C of Quality Management System.   .... It's all about quality. Yea .. The name tells itself what the blog is about. After reading the following write-up you will come to know. 1) What this blog is about ? 2) To whom it is useful ? 3) What measures are necessary to avoid  failure in quality related products ? In this site we are going to see how quality tools can be applied to an unorganised organisation..  Yes , you read it correctly.. unorganised.. In most of well reputed companies/organisations/ huge hospitals ,there you always see presence of some sort of quality management system.. be it in form of TS 19696 or NABH or NACL or ISO 9001 or Environme...
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Process Flow Diagram (PFD)

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#processflowdiagram  #PFD     #processflow  Hi , Today we are going to see what is 'process flow diagram' with an example. https://www.videosprofitnetwork.com/watch.xml?key=3549bcec687e023e7ddf3c291dc10aa7 But before that we would go through some of the terms .  Process :- Means any set of  activities that is carried out intentionally to give some useful or required result. So process is basically task of many things together that are connected to each other. In order to carry out task, some things need to be in hand, which are termed as input. After getting task completed you will get result which is termed as 'output'. For example :- Inspection of finished engineering goods. Inspector starts checking finished jobs with the measuring instruments like tape, Vernier calliper, micro meter or snap gages or any other measuring tools. After inspection , we come to know the finished good is okay or not. Here Inspection is a process. In order to carry out thi...
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Micro to small industry Key Person from Quality QMS approach

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 Hi Friends😊 Its a pretty much time from my last post. So decided to write about something about one of  circumstances that I face regularly and frequently.  Many times we see that small vendor companies that supply material to their renowned customer THAT MAKES IT MANDATORY TO HAVE CERTIFICATION OF ANY QMS at their vendor. The certificate can be ISO  or TS or Food certificate . Customers provide support to their vendor by conducting various training programs from time to time in order to have good quality system at vendor end. Many Vendors go or follow that way in proper manner.  But some small vendors face a stage for some duration described below. The more the duration of such stages, the more are chances you(small vendors) loose more business or incur losses. What do you think about Micro and Small scale industry where there is a lot of  regular customer work, staff is limited and the role of staff is not defined officially. Or even if defined , no one...
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Small , CNC Machine shop Housekeeping and Involvement of Quality department (Part 1)

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Hi all !  🙏 Today I am going to talk to you about Housekeeping practices in micro to small machine shops and how it is related to Q.A                                                                                                                               (Photo credit :- iStock) For quality assurance , company should also keep shop floor neat and clean. Why ? ... Let's say , there is a messy arrangement of jobs ...finished jobs and reworked jobs kept side by side without any identification.. As a matter of fact, the chances of mixing rework job and finished job get increased by many folds...THIS SITUATION IS ABSOLUTLY NOT DESIRABLE FOR QUAL...
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