In
economy of the Soviet Union
The economy of the Soviet Union was based on state ownership of the means of production, collective farming, and Industrial engineering, industrial manufacturing. An administrative-command system managed a Soviet-type economic planning, dis ...
and
economy of Russia
The economy of Russia is an Developing country, emerging and developing, World Bank high-income economy, high-income, industrialized, mixed economy, mixed Market economy, market-oriented economy.
—Rosefielde, Steven, and Natalia Vennikova. " ...
, Technical Control Departments (, OTK) were and are in charge of
quality assurance
Quality assurance (QA) is the term used in both manufacturing and service industries to describe the systematic efforts taken to assure that the product(s) delivered to customer(s) meet with the contractual and other agreed upon performance, design ...
of production and services.
[''Large Encyclopedic Dictionary'', vol. 2, Moscow, 1991, article "Отдел технического контроля"]Statute of a Technical Control Department
(modern Russia), ''Spravochnik Ekonomista'' ("Economist's Reference"), no. 10, 2004
In the late Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
the OTK existed in all socialist enterprises.[
]
See also
*State Quality Mark of the USSR
The State quality mark of the USSR (, transliteration ) was the official Soviet mark for the certification of quality established in 1967.
Symbol
The sign was a pentagonal shield with a rotated letter K (from Russian word – quality) styli ...
* State Acceptance of Production
References
Economy of the Soviet Union
Economy of Russia
Quality assurance
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