Product driven quality control

Starting with the observation that a great number of defective products are released on the market, we wondered if product driven quality control (PDQC) could be more efficient to prevent such situations. To test this policy, we have built a job-shop manufacturing system using multi-agents technology that enables products to be proactive both for production and quality controls. In this system, each product is aware of its own quality and takes the initiative of quality measurements. PDQC has been systematically compared to classical frequency based quality control (FQC) policies. The results of the simulation show that there are less defective products in the case of PDQC and a better detection. However the level of uncertain products as the speed of detection are not influenced by this policy.