by Billy Miner, Andy Church | Jul 31, 2025 | AQL, Product Inspections, Quality Control
When you import goods from overseas, you need them to meet your specifications as accurately as possible. You also need them to meet all health and safety requirements and be acceptable to your customers. One way to help ensure product quality is to carry out...
by Billy Miner, Andy Church | Jul 21, 2025 | Video
Are You Ready for the End of the Tariff Pause? (Supply Chain Signals) Welcome to the latest Supply Chain Signals video, where we discuss the latest news affecting consumer-product importers and the issues that impact product quality and compliance. Today, we cover...
by Billy Miner, Andy Church | Jul 2, 2025 | Quality Control
If you’ve developed a product and want to get it into the hands of consumers, you need to learn how to manage product quality and compliance. You may have heard the terms ‘product inspection’ and ‘product testing’ thrown around and been unsure whether they were the...
by Billy Miner, Andy Church | May 29, 2025 | Factory Audits, Quality Assurance
Are you thinking about conducting a supplier audit to uncover hidden manufacturing issues, support supplier development, or assess a new manufacturing partner? In general, audits allow you to assess suppliers, but they sometimes have different goals. For example, some...
by Billy Miner, Andy Church | May 13, 2025 | Product Inspections, Quality Control
If you’re manufacturing a product and thinking about how to manage product quality effectively, you may have come across the term ‘golden sample.’ A Golden Sample, also called an approval sample, is a sample your manufacturer sends to you before mass...