In
business,
engineering and
manufacturing,
quality has a
pragmatic interpretation as the
non-inferiority or
superiority of something; it is also defined as
fitness for purpose. Quality is a perceptual, conditional, and somewhat subjective attribute and may be understood differently by different people. Consumers may focus on the
specification quality of a product/service, or how it compares to competitors in the marketplace. Producers might measure the
conformance quality, or degree to which the product/service was
produced correctly.