- Quality control is crucial to the success of any business and organization. Due to the ever-increasing complexity and mission-critical nature of quality control, development, deployment, and management of information systems for quality control overwhelms the capabilities of software developers and system administrators. This has motivated our research, co-sponsored by IBM and HP, to explore development of multi-agent autonomic architecture for quality control systems. We have designed a new multi-agent autonomic architecture for quality control systems. This paper presents the new multi-agent autonomic architecture, and discusses our latest research results and our plans for enhancement of this research project. Background information is also provided in this paper.