aql

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5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Inspection Sampling

By The Pro QC Quality Assurance Team Whether you’ve been in the supply chain game for a while, or just getting into it, one of the most important questions is how do you make sure your goods meet your quality criteria? Checking every item is too costly and time-consuming, so inspecting random samples from production […]

What types of defects occur most often during inspections?

Product Inspection

Over the last three decades, we have inspected an innumerable amount of orders for clients looking to mitigate sourcing risk and uncertainty. As a result, one question we receive often regards identifying trends or commonalities among defects noted. We asked two of our key team members in Ningbo, China what the most commonly noted issues […]

3 Ways to Use Defect Data to Drive Improvement

Quality Control

Our quality engineers collect data from supplier locations all over the world, and we encourage our clients to get as much value as possible from our reporting to drive overall improvements and support successful supplier partnerships. Consider the simplified example of conducting weekly pre-shipment inspections of one product at a single supplier site. The information […]

The sampling app you’ve always wanted… ANSI Z1.4 2003 made easy

Quality Control

Pro QC’s team of technical engineers has developed an Android and iOS application that takes the guesswork out of the accept or reject determination of an on-site quality inspection depending on customizable major and minor AQLs (Acceptable Quality Limits). This application has been incredibly useful for our team on-site, in addition to many of our clients. For […]

Which AQL do you choose?

Quality Control

One of the most frequent questions we receive regarding on-site quality inspections relates to selecting AQLs, or Acceptable Quality Levels. AQLs represent the maximum percent defective that you consider acceptable. Pro QC’s Assistant Operations Manager in China, Cesar Marsical, address the question below: The selection of AQLs and sampling plan for a given lot size […]

Evaluating inspection reports

Quality Control

Many companies anxiously await product quality inspection results and focus on the “accept” or “reject” status alone. However, it is important to note that useful information exists within the details that are worth examining. Here are a few things that should be considered: Defect Trends – An accepted inspection doesn’t mean that no defects were […]

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