ABSTRACT

Quality has been evident in human activities for as long as we can remember. However the first stage of this development can be seen in the 1910s when the Ford Motor Company’s ‘T’ Model car rolled off the production line. The company started to employ teams of inspectors to compare or test the product with the project standard. This was applied at all stages covering the production process and delivery, etc. The purpose of the inspection was that the poor quality product found by the inspectors would be separated from the acceptable quality product and then would be scrapped, reworked or sold as lower quality.