Tag Archives: quality control

How To Choose Which Product Quality inspection You Need?

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Renaud Anjoran

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 →

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QC Trends In 2021 (+ raw material costs and new product development)

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Renaud Anjoran

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 →

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6 Advantages Of Conducting An Off-Site Product Inspection

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Renaud Anjoran

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 →

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How to set up a Receiving Inspection: Checklist, Procedure, Reporting form

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Renaud Anjoran

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 →

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Off-Site QC VS In-Factory QC

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Renaud Anjoran

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.

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Surgical Mask Inspections: Our QC Checklist [Free Download]

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Renaud Anjoran

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 →

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How to Arrange Supplier Self Inspections for QC

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

Supplier self inspections, rather than sending in external quality inspectors, are becoming increasingly important for today’s buyers. In certain cases, it makes a lot of sense to stop sending employees to check if a supplier has done a good job. … Continue reading →

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Beware! QC inspections based on AQL & random sampling have limits

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

I wrote many times that QC inspections before shipment are a good way of keeping quality problems where they belong: In the factory. Quality control inspections are a good tool. But pointing out their limits is important. Misinterpreting their reliability is very easy.

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