ISO 9000 and Welding

Gone are the days of conventional inspection and quality control of sorting of sorting out good and bad and concentrating its application only on the shop floor After realising the fact, that quality of the product has to be built in stages, right from concept to commissioning, with the total involvement of all functions in the organisation, the concept of quality assurance found quite appealing. In the initial stages, the Quality Assurance ment Quality Planning, Quality Audit and Training The QA programme adopted by many manufacturers based on the applicable product standard had no uniform common base in respect of quality systems It was in late 1960, that the systems approach to attain consistent quality was emphasized by quality experts, saying “Systems make for Effective Control".