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What’s A Good QA Auditing & Inspection Program For New Products?

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Adrian and Renaud go through what makes a good QA auditing and inspection program for innovative new electro-mechanical products that will reduce risks of poor quality, reliability, and compliance issues, and detect them in time for them to be worked on before anything is shipped. Unless you are producing simple products or working with a supplier who is very experienced in manufacturing the exact product type you’re developing, you will very likely require some form of QA program like this.

It’s split into 5 points: 1-3 cover the preparation of the product and process design, then 4-5 are after the product starts mass production. Listen and explore what needs to happen to power up your product quality!

 

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Episode sections

  • 00:00 – Greetings and introduction
  • 01:37 – Why do you need a QA auditing and inspection program?
  • 06:53 – #1. A DFM review of some components (especially custom-designed).
  • 10:50 – #2. A quality system audit of suppliers’ factories.
  • 18:00 – Are market surveillance authorities scrutinising product compliance more than before?
  • 21:13 – #3. Production line preparation audit at the assembly factory.
  • 28:46 – #4. A product inspection during the pilot run(s).
  • 33:12 – #5. Final product inspections during and after production.
  • 41:09 – Wrapping up.

 

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Why YOU Need a Product Safety Program

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Why YOU Need a Product Safety Program
It’s astounding and perhaps a little bit scary that we see many importers with Chinese suppliers continuing to purchase and import products that pose a potential risk to consumers, kids, or pets without taking the necessary measures to test product safety and quality via a product safety program.

This problem became very clear in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, for example, where there was a veritable gold-rush to purchase KN95 respirator masks from China, up to 70% of which later turned out not to pass relevant safety standards for their markets. OK, there may be a big difference between poor quality masks that make their way into hospitals and don’t provide the required protection and a product which cannot harm the user if faulty, but nonetheless, a mass recall of your products, whatever they may be, could be very damaging or even fatal for your business. Worst-case, if end-users did get injured could your company afford to be sued?

However, there is a way to mitigate your risks when importing products from abroad. Implementing a product safety program. Here’s why…

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