What happens inside the factory: tooling, inspection gates, capacity and quality control.
An audit is not a tour. A factory that assembles chargers can look impressive and still be unable to show a batch record, a calibration certificate or a process instruction. The purpose of the visit is to verify that the …
A component goes on allocation, the factory offers an alternative, and the question arrives: does this need retesting? The answer depends on whether the alternate was qualified in advance or introduced under pressure. A policy exists to make that decision …
Traceability is not a label on a carton. It is a link between four records that most factories hold in four places: the unit or lot, the components that went into it, the test result it produced, and the shift …
The quotation states a unit price, a minimum quantity and sometimes a delivery term. It rarely states the calendar that starts when the mechanical design is released. That calendar - not the production line - is what determines when a …
A single final inspection can only reject defects that are visible or measurable at the end of the line. By then the cause - a wrong component, a cold solder joint, a mis-set fixture - has already been repeated across …
A bulk shipment is rejected because the logo is the wrong shade, the cable is a lower rating than the sample, or the box insert changed. None of those defects appeared at the last inspection; they appeared because approval was …
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