Quality at the source

Quality at the source is a method of process control whereby each worker is responsible for his or her own work and performs needed inspections at each stage of the process.

Definition

According to Managing Quality by Foster (6th edition),

Quality at the source. A method of process control whereby each worker is responsible for his or her own work and performs needed inspections at each stage of the process.

According to Managerial Accounting by Braun, Tietz (5th edition), Quality at the source is a term that refers to shifting the responsibility for quality adherence to the operators at each step in the value stream, rather than relying on supervisors or a quality assurance departrnent to catch errors.