Top 5 Quality Control Inspection Tools To Save Time & Money
Do you send inspectors to your suppliers’ factories? Have you spent time ensuring they are well equipped? If not, chances are they are wasting much time on useless tasks.
What Auditors Consider To Be Good Quality Inspection Records
Any quality auditor will admit that a set of good inspection records make their job much easier. But what do “good records” actually look like?
4 Ways to Fix Productivity Killing Internet Issues in Manufacturing
Are you pulling your hair out because of a slow internet connection? And most folks at Headquarters don’t understand the issue?
Why Your Quality Control Inspection Procedure May Be Ill-Suited
Over the years, I noticed that many buying offices and trading companies are hesitant to make changes to their quality control inspection procedure. In fact, their QC process hasn’t changed for years.
8 Ways Quality Inspection Software Can Cut Costs and Save Time
Based on our unscientific observations, less than 2% of buying offices have equipped their QC inspectors with dedicated software. They are missing on a serious cost-cutting and time-saving tool.
How To Save Time on Product Inspections [Simple Framework]
Have you designed a product, and specified many measurement points? Great. This will help the manufacturer ‘get it right’. However, should your inspectors spend hours checking all those points? Probably not.
Sampling Plan in Minitab: a Useful Hack To Cut Inspection Time
If you have a team of inspectors in Asia, I bet they follow common sampling statistics (what people call the ‘AQL tables’, coming from the ISO 2859-1 standard or MIL-STD 105E). And your suppliers are used to them too…
3 Common Issues with Quality Control Inspection Tools
Most inspectors go to factories with a digital camera and a laptop. They might also bring a measurement tape and a barcode scanner, but they rely on the factory to provide all the remaining equipment.
4 Reasons To Build a Strong Inspection Management System
QC inspections are simple, right? Counting products, looking for defects… it’s child’s game. Or is it?
Factory’s Cooperation with Inspectors: A New Supplier KPI?
Do your suppliers cause endless trouble in your organization? Suppliers are obviously a major source of quality issues. What people don’t always appreciate is the degree of interference a factory can introduce in qc inspections. Let’s look more closely at their impact and how supplier KPIs can help here…
