Andrew Amirnovin, our group's Head of Compliance and Reliability, kicks off 2024 by introducing 7 key elements of the New Product Introduction process that you need to understand as they will help ensure a successful product launch, but … [Read more...]
6 Tips To Combat Common Recurring Quality Issues From Your Supplier
What happens if your supplier keeps manufacturing products with various defects, even though you have a quality standard that outlines your expectations? This tends to happen for the same reasons, so here are 6 tips to help you avoid … [Read more...]
What Drives Product Inspection Costs?
It's important to inspect product quality, but if the inspections you get done aren't optimized you could end up spending too much on high product inspection costs which is a problem when that money could be used for other activities. … [Read more...]
Is there a Relationship between Factory Audits and Better Quality Products? [Real Data Analysis]
Prof. Neale O’Connor, a China business and accounting expert and international keynote speaker, recently analyzed some of our own factory audit data and other third-party data about customer complaints and came up with some really … [Read more...]
Understanding The Role Of Manufacturing Process Control In Your Factory
Turning raw materials and components into a finished product can be a complex process. It usually requires more steps than a layperson would think of. And, if the manufacturer does not set up appropriate controls along these process steps, … [Read more...]
What is the product return rate and how to reduce it? [Podcast]
In this episode… The Sofeast Group's head of New Product Development, Andrew Amirnovin explores what the product return rate is and provides advice you can take to reduce yours before you even start mass producing your product. If you do … [Read more...]
How to Improve Product Quality from your Supplier? (6 tips) [Podcast]
In this episode… Renaud explores how to improve the product quality you're getting from suppliers who you sourced and are now actively working with. This is a continuation of our series of podcast episodes on how to do your own … [Read more...]
Quality Control Plan: Defining Expectations Before Production
Depending on the context, "quality control plan" means different things. Let's look at the three types of quality control plans: The product quality control plan to include in a contract with a Chinese supplier The QC plan for a … [Read more...]
Nonconforming Products or Materials: What Are the Options?
I wrote extensively about quality inspections, the way the AQL limits lead to a pass/fail result, how to set up corrective actions in order to prevent the same issues from coming back, how to set up a QC plan to prevent issues and detect … [Read more...]
What is a Receiving Quality Inspection, and How to Set Yours Up? [Podcast]
In this episode… How do you assure that the parts and materials (inputs) your manufacturer receives from their sub-suppliers are good quality and won't lead to defective finished products? You perform a receiving quality inspection on … [Read more...]
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