AQL (Acceptance Quality Limit) is an important sampling method that you’ll use when conducting product inspections at your factory. So if you’re manufacturing consumer products and have been learning about AQL, you’ve probably looked at the various inspection levels...
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Quality Inspection: A Guide to Help You Make Great Products
Are you manufacturing consumer products at a factory abroad? Ensuring they’re well-made is essential to your success. A product that breaks easily or doesn’t meet customer expectations can lead to returns, negative reviews, and a damaged brand reputation. Quality...
Pre-Shipment Inspections in China: 5 Things You Need to Know
Are you working with a manufacturer in China? Are you far away from the factory but thinking about sending someone to make sure the goods meet your quality standards? Many importers in this situation choose to conduct pre-shipment inspections. A Pre-Shipment...
How Production Monitoring Helps Importers Meet Quality and Ship Date Targets
Do you have long production runs at an overseas factory that last weeks or months? Have you experienced issues that delayed the delivery of finished goods? Or are you working with a new product or factory and feeling nervous about hitting your production timeline? If...
How to Choose the Right AQL and Inspection Levels for Your Product
AQL sampling is an industry-standard method for consumer product inspections. It determines how many units the inspector should check and how many defects are allowable. Once you're face-to-face with an AQL chart or calculator, it's time to decide on your AQL and...
You Cannot Inspect Quality Into a Product: This is Why
It's a trap many consumer product importers fall into: the belief that third-party inspection is a magic bullet to fix their quality issues. They think inspecting their products is the single key to making high-quality goods that earn rave reviews. But, alas, this is...
How to Use the AQL Inspection Levels (General & Special)
To achieve optimal results in your quality inspections, you must grasp the concept of Acceptance Quality Limit (AQL) sampling, particularly the inspection levels. A thorough understanding of inspection levels empowers you to interpret your inspection results...
How do Pre-Shipment Inspections Work? An Overview for Importers
Ensuring product quality is paramount when sourcing products from emerging markets like China, Vietnam, or Turkey. Pre-shipment inspections, a proven quality control procedure, help you achieve good quality and instill confidence in your import process. Consider this...
Quality Inspection Checklists: How to Create Them
When you sell consumer products in the US or European market, working with manufacturers in low-cost countries can be fear-inducing. The possibility that you might randomly receive a shipment of substandard or unsafe products is like an ever-present shadow looming...
What is a DUPRO Inspection, and Why Would You Need to Conduct One?
Are you conducting inspections to catch defects in your goods before the factory loads them into a container and ships them overseas? As a third-party QC service provider, we conduct many of these Pre-Shipment Inspections for our clients. However, did you know you can...