Quality Control vs. Quality Assurance

Quality Control is product based E.g. Monitoring of temperature/humidity in a controlled environment.

Quality Assurance is process based E.g. setting the specific temperature/humidity for a controlled environment, then overviewing whether it is been monitored.

Quality control is a routine check what one does when performing the process but Quality assurance is the audit conducted to see whether the process is performed according to the specification. Quality audit relates to determining whether you are using the right processes and whether those processes are effective, rather than improving processes. Quality process improvement is part of process improvement plan.