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Should You Avoid the Words “Defects” and “Defectives”?

October 20, 2020

Should You Avoid the Words "Defects" and "Defectives"?

Someone on Linkedin wrote about the distinction between these 2 terms: Defect Defective I actually see a lot of confusion around them.   What does the standard say? ISO 2859-1 includes these definitions: Defect: non-fulfilment of an intended usage requirement Nonconformity: non-fulfilment of a specified requirement (Note: In some situations specified requirements coincide with customer usage requirements) Nonconforming item: item with one or more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: defect list, Defect sorting, defectives, defects, design defects, manufacturing defects, quality issues, reducing defects, solving quality issues

The 5 Levels of Quality Standards: From Worst to Best Practices

May 4, 2020

The 5 Levels of Quality Standards: From Worst to Best Practices

Setting clear quality standards for each type of product you purchase in Asia is a basic need. Like in "to keep living, breathing is a basic need". Despite this, very few companies that have production in China or Vietnam take the time to do it right. And, as a result, they have to suffer quality issues, misunderstandings, and the breakdown of trust with their suppliers. Let's go through the 5 levels of quality standards, from most basic to most advanced. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: defects, enforcing a quality standard, golden sample, manufacturing defects, quality standard, quality standards, reducing defects, samples

How HALT and HASS Can Help your Product Development Efforts

November 3, 2015

Typical HALT process

HALT and HASS are accelerated product reliability testing methods focused on finding potential defects in products. These acronyms stand for: HALT – Highly Accelerated Life Test HASS – Highly Accelerated Stress Screen If you are developing a new product ready for manufacturing and you want to know if it will keep working as planned after a few years of use, you can send a few samples to a testing laboratory and ask them to perform HALT and/or HASS. These types of tests are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: defects, HALT, HASS, product testing, reliability testing

Why the AQL tables are not in favor of the buyer

September 30, 2013

Why the AQL tables are not in favor of the buyer

This is the third and last video about the ANSI tables (also known as “AQL tables”). As I explained in the last video, these sampling schemes were designed for very stable relationships, where the manufacturer keeps making the same products and keeps shipping them regularly (e.g. twice a month) to the same customer. As a consequence, the assumption is that quality is under control. And an inspection is used to catch the big accidents. What it means is that the statistics are way, way … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: ANSI/ASQ Z1.4, AQL, Aql Tables, defects, product inspections, qa, QC, quality inspections

4 Proven Ways To Enforce A Quality Standard In China

July 12, 2010

enforcing quality standards

How can importers establish a quality standard, and then enforce it? Here are 4 proven ways to enforce a quality standard in China and other Asian countries, and also improve how you handle your suppliers, too. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: chinese suppliers, defects, define tolerances, enforcing a quality standard, perfect samples, quality standard, quality standards


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