I noticed many people confuse two things: the list of potential defects, and the list of checkpoints to follow during an inspection. What I see very often is a list of potential defects, but no list of checkpoints. There are 2 main problems with this: The inspector has no structure to follow. When random sampling is used, the inspector should NOT count every problem he finds as a defect. If he checks a point on the full sample size (for example on 200 pcs), that's fine. But this is … [Read more...]
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