qa insp

First of all you must have some type of policy written-up for such. This is part of your plantwide QC plan. Have some of your local experts from diverse departments get together and draw-up a plan by several ways:

1.Brainstorm

2.Objectives

3.Purpose

4.Persons involved (key personnel)

5.Reporting

6.Documentation

7.Parameters

8.Tools used

9.etc, etc...

You say a more accurate inspection. What is the product and what are you currently inspecting for?

What is the goal you are trying to achieve? Are you seeing high levels of defects at the part destination(press, assembly, mixture...), trying to achieve a certification, or just implementing best practices?

Please give some more info and we can steer you in the right direction. i.e. part, size, qty, what it does, industry, critical characteristics

Confirming conformance to requirements as specified on the purchase order is a good place to start. If you order 10 meters long material, confirm its 10 meters.

But unless your management will let you reject it if it isn't 10 meters, you are likely going to be playing games with purchasing dept.- WINK Wink; and suppliers- NOD NOD.

When you say "more accurate with samples," I am reminded of a good, borderline, bad sample board that shows an acceptable piece; a piece that is questionable, and one that clearly fails.

Frankly, recieving inspection is passe- if something doesn't meet requirements- it should be returned to vendor at their expense. You should be working on process improvement. But Thats from someone who has successfully returned truckloads of non conforming products until they got it right. And who had the courage to tell the purchasing department that "bribes or no bribes, that sh*t is rejected. You want to fire me call my boss."

Document the requirements. Make a checklist for each requirement, with criteria for acceptance, then inspect. If it passes all, accept. If not reject and return.

Don't make this harder than it needs to be.

milo