Fast Quality management software ensures that an organization, product or service is consistent. It has four main components: quality planning, quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement. Fast Quality management is focused not only on product and service quality, but also on the means to achieve it. Fast Quality management, therefore, uses quality assurance and control of processes as well as products to achieve more consistent quality.
Fast Quality management software is a recent phenomenon but important for an organization. Civilizations that supported the arts and crafts allowed clients to choose goods meeting higher quality standards rather than normal goods. In societies where arts and crafts are the responsibility of master craftsmen or artists, these masters would lead their studios and train and supervise others. The importance of craftsmen diminished as mass production and repetitive work practices were instituted. The aim was to produce large numbers of the same goods. The first proponent in the US for this approach was Eli Whitney who proposed (interchangeable) parts manufacture for muskets, hence producing the identical components and creating a musket assembly line.