Business GCSE
Quality Assurance
What Quality Assurance means in Business GCSE, as defined for Eduqas, OCR.
Definitions of Quality Assurance
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A system of maintaining standards by building quality checks into every stage of the production process.
A system of checking quality at every stage of the production process to prevent errors.
Building quality checks into every stage of production to prevent defects.
Topics that use Quality Assurance
- Business activity (Eduqas GCSE)
- Business operations (Eduqas GCSE)
- Operations (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Flow Production
- Job Production
- Batch Production
- Just-in-Time (JIT)
- Procurement
- Automation
- E-commerce
- Quality Control
Using Quality Assurance in the exam
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