If you’re regularly ordering large product volumes, you may have developed a container loading plan to ensure shipping efficiency. You may have also established packing and marking systems and taken other planning steps to minimize product damage. But how do you...
Product Inspections
What is a Product Quality Inspection, and How Do They Work?
When you make consumer products to sell in the marketplace, you need to ensure that they are well-made. If people buy your product and it breaks easily or doesn’t work as expected, they’re likely to return it and give you a bad review. As such, product quality...
What are Third-Party Inspections, and What Benefits do They Offer?
When you import goods from overseas or outsource manufacturing to a domestic partner, you must ensure that your products meet all specifications, legal requirements, and customer expectations. Unfortunately, it becomes more challenging to accomplish this if you do not...
AQL Special Inspection Levels: How Do They Work?
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...
Pre-Shipment Inspection: A 10-Step Procedure to Verify Product Quality
If you’ve decided to import your products from China, Vietnam, or another emerging market, you are likely highly motivated by competitive pricing. It is crucial, however, that you do not neglect product quality. When working with a manufacturer on the other side of...
5 Types of Quality Inspections to Help You Ship Great Products
When you import goods from overseas, it is crucial to ensure that the final product meets your requirements for quality. But how can you be sure that your supplier uses quality raw materials and makes products exactly to your specifications? Receiving sub-standard...
AQL Inspection Levels: Do You Understand How All 7 of Them Work?
Once you’ve decided to conduct third-party product inspections, it is vital to get a clear understanding of how AQL sampling works. If you want to work more effectively with your QC services provider and achieve excellent product quality, your knowledge of this...
AQL General Inspection Levels: What are They, and How do You Use Them?
AQL (Acceptance Quality Limit) is an essential sampling method used to conduct product quality inspections at your supplier’s facility overseas. These inspections help you hold your manufacturer accountable so that you can avoid disastrous quality issues that might...
What is AQL Sampling, and How is it Used in Quality Control Inspections?
AQL stands for ‘Acceptance Quality Limit,’ and it’s an essential sampling method used in quality control. It’s defined in ISO 2859-1 as “The quality level that is the worst tolerable” over the course of many inspections. When an inspector goes to your manufacturer to...
Should You Conduct a 100% Inspection or an AQL Sampling Inspection?
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...