Reduces chance of poor quality products reaching users
Benefits of Quality Control
Only some employees need to be trained as inspectors look for failts
Costs of quality control
Faults are found at the end of production
high wastage costs
reworking faulty products costs time and money
Benchmarking
Business will identify a 'benchmark' by looking at an example of something which is regarded the best in the industry, and then compare itself to that example