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What is the AQL (Acceptance Quality Limit)? An exhaustive guide

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

What Does AQL Mean? ‘AQL‘ stands for ‘Acceptance Quality Limit‘, and is defined as the “quality level that is the worst tolerable” in ISO 2859-1. It represents the maximum number of defective units, beyond which a batch is rejected. Importers … Continue reading →

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Why Checking Quality During Loading Is A Bad Idea

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

In this post, I’m going to address whether checking quality during loading, if it’s even possible to do it at that time, is a good idea. I don’t think so, and here’s why…

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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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