Quality management is how a company makes sure its work meets requirements every time: planned checks, records, and fixing the causes of mistakes. Model checking is quality control for information, and it fits into the company's quality system.
Quality management is how a company makes sure its work meets requirements, every time, not just when someone senior checks. Most design and construction firms run a quality management system, often certified to ISO 9001: written procedures, planned checks, records, audits and continual improvement. Information work fits right into it.
Sort these into QA (prevention) or QC (checking): (1) a project template with levels and naming; (2) running the IDS check before sharing; (3) a mobilisation test exchange; (4) a weekly clash test; (5) training new modellers on the BEP; (6) an NCR for missing door data.
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