Important technical terms

Quality
That means the grade, state and/or value level of a product or service.

Quality assurance
The entirety of the organizational, technical and normative measures suitable to assure and, if applicable, to improve the quality of the manufactured products.

Quality criteria
On the one hand, these are quality guidelines, which have to be complied with at each workplace, to guarantee a certain product quality, and on the other hand, they are any important actuating variables, which influence the quality of a product.

Quality management
Entirety of measures for planning, control and monitoring of the quality of the operational performance process and/or the process result. Quality management comprises quality planning, control and inspection.

Quality management manual
This manual contains and describes the entirety of measures for planning, control and monitoring of the quality of the operational performance process and/or the process result.

Quenching
Rapid cooling of a work-piece/material from a higher forming/heat treatment temperature to RT [room temperature], to avoid detrimentaldetrimental precipitations, which negatively influence corrosion resistance, strength, etc.