Production assurance

Production assurance is a way to ensure a productive capacity meets its intended end-results such as customer requirements,Javad Barabady, Tore Markeset, Uday Kumar, (2010) "Review and discussion of production assurance program", International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Vol. 27 Iss: 6, pp.702 - 720 planned production levels,{{cite journal | last=Barabady | first=Javad | last2=Markeset | first2=Tore | last3=Kumar | first3=Uday | title=A framework for improvement of production plant performance using production assurance programs | journal=Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag | volume=1 | issue=1 | year=2010 | pages=59–65 | doi=10.1007/s13198-010-0001-1 }} safety, reliability, risk and direct economic cost. The term is used in industries as far reaching as livestock production,Livestock Production Assurance Handbook, Meat and Livestock Australia Ltd., {{ISBN|978-1-74036-299-3}}, 2015 oil and gasISO 20815:2008 – Petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries – Production assurance and reliability management, International Organization for Standardization, 2012 and information technology. Production assurance is broadly related to productivity and quality management since organizational and human factors must be considered, as well as technical aspects.Tayor and Francis Group, Safety Reliability and Risk Analysis: Theory Methods and Applications, {{ISBN|978-0-415-48513-5}}, 2009, p.1491 ISO 20815:2008 introduces production assurance as a concept composed of twelve processes where "seven are defined as core production-assurance processes".

Production assurance normally exists in the context of an enterprise or between producers and oversight bodies, such as regulators.