Quality assurance in Industry 4.0
While quality assurance in the conventional sense is still mainly concerned with the physical inspection of products, networked production places new demands on quality assurance. In addition to ensuring product quality, the focus is also on securing the flow of information. All data that have an influence on value creation and originate from networked production must be secured with Quality Assurance 4.0. Only then can all the advantages of product manufacturing by means of networked production be fully exploited. This poses new challenges for production, quality thinking and the quality management system.
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Prerequisites for use
Awareness of networked production and the idea of quality
For targeted quality assurance in networked production, it is important that all employees are made aware of this issue. A consensus among all employees contributes significantly to quality assurance and thus to the long-term success of the company.
Adaptation of the existing quality management system
It is possible that the existing quality management system of a company does not fit the new requirements of networked production. A detailed analysis of the new requirements, processes and challenges is the basic building block of a successful, future-oriented quality assurance and helps to adapt an existing quality management system.