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Importance of Quality Control in Projects

   

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Running Head: LITERATURE REVIEWLiterature Review: Constraints of Quality ControlName of the StudentName of the University
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1LITERATURE REVIEWIntroductionQuality control is defined as the activity that is undertaken to ensure that the quality of anend product of a manufacture (from industry) or project is according to the pre-set standards.However, recently, quality control is mostly ignored by the project managers in order to savetime and money in the project. In order to analyse and address this issue, this literature reviewhas been conducted that is mainly based on the quality control of a project. The entire study hasbeen conducted on different factors related to the quality control and issues related to a project.The study first starts with the analysis of the importance of quality control in a project and thenthe role of project managers or organization leaders in ensuring the quality of the project andfinally the adverse effects that may be occur in a project due to lack of quality control.Furthermore in this report, the use of technology for quality control has been suggested and forthat purpose, the different technological processes that can aid the quality control andmanagement of a project have been analysed. In this assignment, a literature review has been conducted on the quality control factorsand the constraints that prevent application of quality control in a project. Following theliterature review study and analysis, suitable recommendations have been provided for thepurpose of quality control of a project.Literature ReviewQuality control is a system that is needed more and more with the progress of time as theneeds for setting a certain standard of outputs are growing. This is mainly because, these days,most of the manufactures are only after profits and hence, in order to maximize it; they are
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2LITERATURE REVIEWcontinuously using poor quality materials for the manufacture of the products. As a result, theoutcome of the manufacture is of the poor quality and this is resulting in the depletion ofcustomer satisfaction that in turn negatively affects the business of the retailers. Researchershave studied this issue for some time and have developed the concept of quality control. Aliterature review has been conducted based on the works different researchers as follows.According to Munier (2013), some manufacturers, especially in the countries withdeveloping economy ignore the quality factor and aims for producing the materials at the leastpossible expense for gaining maximum possible profits. As a result, they are delivering poorquality products to the retailers who are in turn selling poor quality products to the customers.This in turn angers the customers and the customer base of the retailer starts to decrease.However, this does not affect the manufacturer much as they find other retailers to sell theirproducts. According to the researcher, this is significantly affecting the retailers and thecustomers whereas the manufacturer is earning huge amounts from selling poor quality productsat low cost.As per the works of Corona-Suárez, AbouRizk and Karapetrovic (2014), not only theretail industry, quality factors are also becoming rising issues in projects as many projectmanagers are not undertaking sufficient measures for the quality control of the project. As aresult, the quality of the project is getting severely affected. It is the duty of the project managerto control the quality of the project in order to ensure complete success of the project. Withoutquality control, the project may be successful but after sometime, various faults and loopholes ofthe project become noticeable.
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