Continuous Improvement vs. Quality Control

I strongly believe that continuous improvement is more important than quality control. The reason behind my thinking is that quality control is an element of continuous improvement for the following reason. Quality control only identifies rejects. Its only purpose is to inspect items or services to determine whether or not a set criteria, or standard, is met; and decide whether the item will be fixed, rejected, or passed. Continuous improvement is the ability to constantly …

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