“Have your own quality staff on-site monitor your supplier during the production”
Production Monitoring Service Description
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What is the Production Monitoring Service
The Production Monitoring is a Production Inspection operation which is performed when at least 10% of the production is started and less than 80% is over. It aims to monitor and keep an eye on your production directly on-site with an inspector acting as your QC staff.
Why use the Production Monitoring Service
When you discover after having placed an order and sent your deposit to your supplier that he has overpromised on his capacity and when you worry that your supplier doesn’t have the capacity to handle his production properly.
In this case, performing a Production Monitoring  by allocating a surveillance on site can be a good strategy to avoid your order turn into nightmare.
You anticipate issue at the early stage and you put someone on site to take care of your order.
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When the Production Monitoring Service is occurring
In term of production consideration, the Production Monitoring takes ideally places when the production is between 10% and 80%. So that it covers the main part of the production and eliminate risk during the most critical part of the process.
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Where the Production Monitoring Service is taking place
The Production Monitoring will usually takes place at manufacturer premises, where the manufacturing takes place.
Who conduct the Production Monitoring Service
The Production Monitoring will be performed by an experienced professional inspector specialized in the field of your product expertise.
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How does the Production Monitoring Service is performed
During a Production Monitoring the inspector will stay on the production line monitoring both worker and product which are manufactured.
He will constantly turn around the production line to spot potential cause of issue and will notify the manufacturer about the corective action plan to implement to make the order successfull and on time.
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What the Production Monitoring Service is checking
During a Production Monitoring we conduct a quick general inspection of your product including product itself, packing and packaging.
We will also check how the products are manufactured. We will check carefully the manufacturing process of your product:
- Quantity status (ready, unpacked, still in production)
- Sample comparison if any present on site at the inspection time
- Product appearance and specification (color, dimension, marking, weight, logo, etc..)
- Packaging appearance and specification (printing, marking ,dimension, weight, thickness, etc…)
- On site test (function test, abuse test, carton drop test, internal test, assembly check etc…)
- Root cause of issue
- Corrective action plan implementation
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What is the process for the Production Monitoring
The Production Monitoring require preparation, briefing about your products and understanding of each manufacturing step. Do so, our operational quality team has to prepare quality control protocol before sending the inspector on site.
A briefing is also performed with the inspector before him/her to go on site. Once on site, the inspector will analyze the way the product is manufactured and will identify risky position affecting quality. We require our customer to let us know enough in advance their requirement for us to be able to prepare all necessary document and briefing.
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