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February 23 , 2022
One of our customers recently asked what kinds of electronic product inspections would be appropriate for their new product. Since a lot of businesses are developing and manufacturing electronic products, let’s explore this interesting topic here…
June 08 , 2021
Maintaining good product quality when manufacturing a new piece of apparel is a common concern, even when working with a regular manufacturer. The issue here is that the garment is ‘new,’ and, in this case, new means ‘increased risks.’ Increased … Continue reading
May 20 , 2021
It’s a must to conduct a product quality inspection on products you’re getting made by a new overseas supplier, or perhaps from a regular supplier who’s manufacturing a new product for the first time. If you can’t be on-site, using … Continue reading
May 18 , 2021
Sofeast’s CEO Renaud was recently a panellist on a fireside chat webinar from Global sources where he spoke about QC trends in 2021 and some other key topics that concern importers right now. In case you missed this webinar, here … Continue reading
March 08 , 2021
Most product inspections take place at your supplier’s factory which makes sense as that’s where the products are being made, allowing a QC inspector to go in there and check during production, for example. But there are times when you … Continue reading
October 09 , 2020
You may already have seen our infographic explaining how a random inspection works, if so, you’ll see that it is a good introduction to these inspections. Now, the next step is learning how to report the results in a QC … Continue reading
September 03 , 2020
I have written extensively about pre-shipment inspections (before, during, or after production), always from the perspective of the buyer checking what a supplier is doing; but I noticed that I haven’t covered what’s known as a receiving inspection (also called incoming … Continue reading
August 20 , 2020
Is there ever a situation where you’d want your product inspection to be performed away from your Chinese supplier’s factory? Yes! We’ll explain your options in Off-Site QC VS In-Factory QC.
July 31 , 2020
Buyers often ask us, how to do stricter QC inspections with some of their suppliers in China or Vietnam. There are 5 tips that we can offer if you’re in this situation:
March 05 , 2020
These days, many companies are buying surgical masks due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak without knowing much about that type of product. Are you in that situation? If so, here is a generic quality control checklist that we use for … Continue reading